- Porsche confirms new 2025 MY 911 has a “performance hybrid” powertrain.
- Car with optional Aerokit package, including fixed rear wing, lapped the Nurbrurging 8.7 seconds faster than the old car.
- 3.1 million miles of testing is complete; 911 debuts on May 28.
Porsche will reveal the new 911 on May 28, and while it won’t look radically different on the outside, the automaker has confirmed it will feature one major change under the skin: a hybrid powertrain.
“For the first time in our icon’s 61-year history, we are installing a hybrid drive system in a roadgoing 911”, Frank Moser, Vice President Model Line 911 and 718, said. “This innovative performance hybrid makes the 911 even more dynamic.”
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We knew an electrically-boosted 911 was coming, but Porsche’s teaser release for the 2025 MY 911 suggests that hybrid assistance won’t arrive in the form of a separate model, but be built into the regular Carreras Porsche will launch first.
Porsche doesn’t give much away about the powertrain’s technical spec – we already know it won’t be a PHEV – but it does refer to it as a “performance hybrid” and says the new car can lap Germany’s Nurburgring in 7 minutes, 16.9 seconds, which is 8.7 seconds faster than the “corresponding version” of the previous model, the all-wheel drive 992 GTS.
Those numbers were achieved with a 992.2 equipped with standard road tires and the optional Aerokit, a package that has been available on the 911 for decades and includes a large, fixed rear wing. We’ve seen spy photos of cars testing with and without the aero upgrade, which also seemed to include vertical vanes in the front bumper that look like they might be active air flaps.
But both of the cars seen here in these pictures (one with, and one without the fixed rear wing) appear to have the same front bumper treatment.
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“We have more grip, significantly more power, and the spontaneous response of the performance hybrid is a great advantage,” Porsche test driver and brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister said of the latest version of the automaker’s iconic sports car.
To prime us for the May 28 reveal, Porsche released a video and set of images giving us a taste of the more than 3.1 million miles of testing that went into the 2025 car. The world premiere will be broadcast at 09.00 EST on Porsche’s YouTube channel, and you’ll be able to catch it here at Carscoops.
