Porsche’s new Carrera RH concept

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https://www.pca.org/news/2019-04-01/porsches-new-carrera-rh-concept-points-way-lifestyle-and-hybrid-911s



Porsche is ready to take its sports cars to new heights, specifically 30 millimeters higher with the new 911 Carrera Rallye Hybrid concept, an exploration of creating "lifestyle" cars that fill niche markets between the normal Carrera line and the high-performance GT cars.

The Carrera RH is meant to be a modern interpretation of the recent off-road "Safari" air-cooled 911 builds, which today have wide acceptance in the Porsche community. The car was also inspired by Porsche's own endeavors in rally racing — one of the first factory-supported overall victories for the 911 came at the hands of Vic Elford driving a 911T at the 1968 Monte Carlo Rally, and Porsche continued to develop off-road sports cars such as the 911 SC/RS and the 959 supercar for World Rally Championship contention.

Yet in spite of inspiration coming from the past, the RH could point the way forward, in part because it is the first 911 to feature a gasoline-electric hybrid drive system. With the introduction of the 992-generation 911, on which the RH is based, Porsche conspicuously built into the eight-speed dual-clutch automatic the possibility of pairing it to an electric motor, and here the engineers have delivered with a 134-horsepower unit that makes 295 pound-feet of torque, likely the same motor in the Panamera 4 E-Hybrid. Combined with the 443-hp, 390 lb-ft Carrera S flat-six, total output is 568 hp and 547 lb-ft. Unfortunately there would be no option for a manual transmission were the RH to be produced because there's no way for it to accommodate the electric motor.

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Not sure if April fools... but if not, how is an 8 speed DCT easier to package than a 7 speed manual?

And by the time this comes out the Rallye 911 fad will be over.

[CaminoRacer]

Not sure if April fools...