The 992-generation Porsche 911 hasn’t been around for all that long but the automaker has already started to develop a facelift for its most iconic sports car.
A blacked-out Porsche 911 Turbo prototype was recently spied winter testing in Europe and while it doesn’t look very different from a regular model, some subtle changes have been made.
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Most notably, the prototype is wearing a unique front bumper with enlarged air intakes and lacking the LED daytime running lights of the current model. It is unlikely that the bumper pictured is a production-spec bumper and will probably be changed before the car hits the market. Nevertheless, it suggests that some front-end styling tweaks are on the cards.
The rear of the 911 Turbo is largely identical to the car you can currently buy but Porsche’s designers have tweaked the LED light bar, so it is now split in two and no longer runs the width of the rear. The eventual production model will probably get a new bumper as well.
It is unclear what mechanical changes Porsche will make but we have no doubt that it will look to improve the sports car in any way that it can. Power will continue to come from a 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged flat-six engine coupled to an eight-speed PDK transmission. If no power increases are made, the 911 Turbo will continue to produce 572 hp and 553 lb-ft (750 Nm) while the Turbo S will be good for 641 hp and 590 lb-ft (800 Nm).
Of course, all of the aforementioned styling tweaks will be made to the entire 911 family but it is the Turbo and Turbo S models that are expected to be the first variants that benefit from the mid-cycle facelift. The updated model will probably launch in 2023.
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