finally LOL
Porsche killed the combustion 718 so now 911 can move down in the line up where it belongs and a proper MID-ENGINE supercar similar to Temerario can sit above it
it seems the difference between this new Mission S and Temerario will be the engine. Temerario uses flat plane crank V8 while Porsche will probably use a boxer engine of some kind …
if the rumor of a flat 8 is correct then i may have bad news because it will probably not sound very different than Temerario …
in fact anything short of a cross plane V8 won’t sound good enough for our friend @OldFriendSaysHello and Porsche almost certainly won’t use that because cross plane V8s aren’t high performance enough for this level of supercar …
for example the Corvette uses both flat and cross plane V8s but the cross plane ( the ones that burble ) are limited to entry models while Z06, ZR1 and ZR1X use flat plane that doesn’t burble …
even BMW XM doesn’t burble despite having cross plane V8 because it also uses a special exhaust manifold that cancels the burble out … to improve turbo performance …
yes @OldFriendSaysHello it doesn’t look good for you at all. it seems your current Porsche V8 is about as high performance as you’re going to go without losing that burble you want. only way you can get faster is by going to PHEV hat will gain about 150 extra HP from electric motor but also gain about 800 lbs of weight which will be dead weight if you don’t charge it every night and i know you won’t so it would be quite a bad idea …
it’s basically the 4.0 AMG or 4.0 Porsche for you if you want that burble …
in the past BMW had two 4.4 V8s - the regular one and the performance one - the regular had normal exhaust manifold with burble and performance one had cross bank manifold without the burble … but since only the rich can now afford V8s BMW killed the base V8 and only the performance V8 remains ( without the burble ) … so no BMW for you …
Audi RS7 is another option as it basically has the same engine you have now …
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i also want to remind the audience that i predicted on this site that 911 was nearing the limit of what the platform was capable of …
there was essentially no way for 911 to answer ZR1X due to the physical limitation of a 2+2 seat car with rear engine versus 2 seat mid-engine car …
WHAT FOLLOWS IS PURE SPECULATION ON MY PART:
what will probably happen is that 718 and 911 will now be side by side instead of 911 being above 718 … instead the 718 will be EV and 911 will be combustion / hybrid.
then Mission S will be above both of them.
likely the 911 will lose some of the top trims like Turbo S and GT2 as well and maybe gain an entry level trim where the old Cayman S was …
so both 911 and 718 will now be from about 100K to 200K ( Cayman moving up and 911 moving down ) and Mission S will start from about 200K and go up to about 400K is my guess.
so there may be some overlap between Mission S and Temerario in terms of price and performance but they will be differentiated by Mission S having a boxer engine and Temerario having V8.
i think Porsche will keep the Flat-6 but make it slightly larger, say 4.0L and also add two electric turbos and three electric motors so that in the top “Turbo S” trim Mission S matches the power of Temerario …
with mid-engine setup there is more space for turbos and intercoolers so more power can be extracted from the same engine which means that with a slight displacement bump they can get a meaningful power increase ( versus 911 ) even before adding electric motors …
i always said the Cayman and 911 should be reversed. the Cayman is the better platform than 911 but 911 had the prestige so they used Cayman as the entry level platform … now finally the same fate meets 911 as what happened to Intel processors - the chickens of an outdated platform have come home to roost …
this Mission S will basically just be Cayman allowed to achieve its final form but without being called Cayman …
the Cayman was already dangerously close to 911 even without having a single variant with turbo 6 or AWD …
Mission S will basically be a Porsche flavor of Temerario sort of how Audi R8 was an Audi flavor of Lamborghini Gallardo … but not quite that similar to each other.
whereas R8 V10 and Gallardo were basically the same except for styling and tuning Mission S will have a boxer engine that will also necessitate a bespoke platform but this will be mainly just to make it unique and it won’t have any meaningful effect on performance except that maybe Porsche will tune the turbos for more low-end torque to mimic 911 turbo feel whereas Temerario tuned the turbos for top end power to mimic old naturally aspirated Lambos …
basically it’s all branding …
718 GT4 RS probably was the best car they had in the line up but thtye purposefully castrated it and used 1 generation old tech everywhere not to cannibalize 911 sales (GT4 RS looked cool outside, drove amazingly well, but the dashboard and infotainment was from a decade ago almost that looked way out of place). They should just converge those 2 lines and release that supercar to be above them all…
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it doesn’t seem long enough to be able to fit 8 cylinders in any configuration
it looks downright SMALL
it’s probably going to basically be a Porsche version of Acura NSX, which is not a bad thing
the NSX was a good car it’s just that paying $160,000 for something with an interior from an Acura crossover was a tough pill to swallow …
technically a Turbo V6 would have been perfect for Mission S as it has worked well for both Acura NSX and Ford GT … and Nissan GTR … however knowing Porsche they will never do what makes logical sense and instead will try to connect the car to their “heritage” … by using a boxer engine …
Porsche should just outmusk the Musk and release Porsche Mission S vonBraun edition, w zee German rockets attached to it - full on retard mode marketing 
By the way jokes aside Musk is a genius in that regard, he sees stupidity of people and knows that attention is the new currency especially w younger generation, so doing stupid shit is the way to get the eyeballs.
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sound:
HyperCar™ on X: "#Porsche Mission S" / X
compare to GT2 RS:
Casey on X: "Porsche GT2 RS Drive By Engine Sound Modded Detroit Season Opener Car Show 2026" / X
i think it could be more or less the same engine just different exhaust.