Non-existent Porsche Goes Viral

Porsche Shooting Brake Is a Fake
by Richard S. Chang
wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/
August 13, 2009

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Last month, a mysterious Porsche shooting brake appeared on the Web. It arrived courtesy of a camera phone video, which showed what looked to be a test mule, clad in black primer, parked on the sidewalk of what looked to be an industrial area “” of Germany?

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/22881351001?isVid=1&publisherID=16764841001

Autoblog wrote:

Looking something like the product of a one-night-stand between said Porsche and either a Volvo C30 or an original BMW Z3-based M Coupe, the supposed mule is wearing all black, but apart from that, it appears to be undisguised. Of course, this could be a one-off made by someone with no official connection to Porsche (Rinspeed, anyone?), but then again, it could be a harbinger of a model to come.

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