Porsche 988 Coupe rendered

The creative types at European design studios Invisive and Colorsponge have gone where even German sports car legend Porsche did not dare to go with its 988 Vision electric car concept.

A purely computer-generated design exercise, the 988 Vision takes cues from the 918 Spider and the Mission E concept car to create a stunning two-door coupe – and it can double as either a basis for an electric sports car or Porsche’s rumoured hybrid hypercar.

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Since word leaked of an upcoming Porsche EV years ago, and even after the Mission E was revealed, the automotive world has been crying out for a two-door coupe. Hard core, if possible.

See, Porsche started life making coupes and it took decades before it put anything else down its production lines and it’s still defined by the 911 range.

That made it puzzling for some that the upcoming Taycan electric car, based off the Mission E concept, is a four-door sedan.

It puzzled the creative types at Spain’s Colorsponge CGI specialists and Invisive’s design team, too, so they fixed it. Or did they?

It’s dripping with so many Porsche design hallmarks, from the badge in the single wheel nuts to the full-width LED tail-light strip, that it could easily be anything from a hybrid hypercar to a Porsche model off the modular mid-engine/rear-engine platform begin developed to house the next 911, Lamborghini Huracan and Audi R8.

While we haven’t seen the final version of the Taycan EV, we do know that Porsche has been hammering its pre-production models trying to create a reputation for durability and endurance, as well as real-world speed.

In the last two weeks it has claimed a 24-hour endurance EV record at the Nardo proving ground in Italy, a repeated 0-200km/h acceleration run statement of 26 in a row for no loss of performance and an EV four-door record on the Nurburging’s Nordschleife that drew uncomfortably close to mid-range 911s.

Unable to see the final production Taycan, the 988 Vision’s designers drew more on the Mission E to create a swooping two door coupe that looks more like a mid-engined hypercar than a bimotor EV with batteries in the floor.

Of course, the 988 Vision won’t be built, but it is a striking illustration of where Porsche could take its seemingly inevitable Taycan-based coupe.

There are sensually curved front wheelarches, snug LED headlights, camera-based side mirrors, stepped rear louvres and subtle Porsche badging.

It’s not Invisive’s first dabble in automotive imagery. It also produced CGI concepts like its Mercedes-Benz Vision SLR, its Mercedes-Benz C01 and the Bugatti Type 103 Vision.