Porsche has announced plans to stage a special 'Project: Secret!' exhibit at the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart. Designed to highlight some of the company's lesser known projects, the exhibit will feature cars such as the 984 which was envisioned as a small and relatively inexpensive sports car that would appeal to younger buyers.
- Development started in 1984 and the model was slated to feature a rear-mounted 2.0-litre four-cylinder boxer engine with outputs ranging from 118-148bhp. They even played around with the idea of a convertible and an all-wheel drive variant but the project was shelved in 1987 when the value of the dollar plummeted.
- The 'Project: Secret Exhibition!' will run from September 17, 2014 to January 11, 2015 and will feature fourteen never-built studies, unknown concept cars and camouflaged prototypes. The exhibit will also have miniatures from the Porsche archive as well as films showing early testing on the prototypes.
- There will also be a 989 which was billed as a family sports car. According to the people at Porsche, work began on the model in 1988 and it was slated to be launched in 1995 with a 4.2-litre V8 engine that produced 345bhp and this meant that it could top out at 279Km/h.
- The other car that the company will put up on display during the exhibition include the Concept Car Type 965 which was commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology in 1978 and 1979.
