カレラGTは最初ハードトップになるかもしれなかった？

Was the Carrera GT originally going to be a hardtop?

Posted: Posted:July 23, 2025

Early sketches for the Carrera GT

A documentary film called "The Intern" was released at the Goodwood Festival of Speed a while ago, in which actor Adrien Brody talks about his experience working behind the scenes at Porsche as an intern.

Reference article:Porsches at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed

Watch the video here (28:33)↓

There's a scene in the documentary where Brody, the star of the film, talks with Porsche's special projects director, Grant Larson, and one scene from that film became a hot topic.

This is apparently an archive sketch of the Carrera GT.

Brody showed us some early sketches of the Carrera GT, including one featuring a model equipped with a hardtop and turbofan wheels, whose shape is thought to be based on the 911 GT1.

The rear diffuser and other features are different from those on the current Carrera GT.

In the early stages of the Carrera GT's development (around 1999), before it was turned into a roadster, Grant Larson had "submitted several sketches of a circuit-oriented mid-engine V10 supercar."

That's why sketches of this hardtop Carrera GT have been preserved.

The Carrera GT was then unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in 2000, first as a concept car, but why did they start with sketches of a hardtop and then abandon that in the end?

It's interesting to think that the current form of each model was created after exploring various possibilities in the concept, idea generation, and development stages.

Source:Adrien Brody Unearths Old Porsche Carrera GT Sketches During Stuttgart Factory Visit

Rika (911supercars.com)

I'm Rika, the author of this article. Since I got my hands on a Porsche 911, I've been completely hooked on Porsches and I can't stop loving them, so I started this blog. My favorite cars are the 911 Carrera (2/991), 911 Carrera Cabriolet & 911 Carrera T (1/992), GT3 (1/997) and 718 Cayman GT4 RS.

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