06-03-2025
New Porsche 911 Turbo Spied in Colorado — Does It Pack Hybrid Power?
The refreshed 992.2-generation Porsche 911 Turbo is currently undergoing on-road testing, and a quick-thinking Road & Track reader just ran into a pair of them in Colorado.
These spy photos, provided by reader Jackson Hall, provide a glimpse of design changes headed for the Turbo models. For one, the innovative new active front intake flaps from the latest 911 Carrera GTS are present here on the Turbo. These flaps stay wide open when cooling is needed, but close under low load to optimize aerodynamics and efficiency. The Turbo's customary front spoiler can be seen deployed on the car wearing yellow calipers. Porsche's new 992.2-gen headlight design is also present.
Both cars are, of course, sporting the rear fender intakes Porsche's 911 Turbo models wear, making them instantly identifiable. Then around back, a new taillight design accentuates the massively wide rear end. The two different exhaust designs show off the standard exhaust (right, below) and the optional Sport Exhaust (left, below). Some parts of a new rear fascia can also be seen on both cars, though there's certainly some deception going on here courtesy of Porsche's typical camouflage strategies.
More exciting than any exterior changes will be the oily bits sitting under that huge rear wing. Word from a Porsche conference call in 2024 is that the next 911 Turbo will use battery cells from Varta, suggesting that it will have a hybrid powertrain. How similar the powertrain is to the GTS T-Hybrid is still an open question, though our tipster said the engineers divulged some info to him while they were stopped for refueling: take it with a grain of salt, but the folks driving the Turbos reportedly said that they're packing a 3.6-liter twin-turbo flat-six with the T-Hybrid system from the GTS integrated.
There are no photos of the interior, but our tipster said the front seats were the same foldable buckets introduced in the 992.2 GT3. Rear seats were present in both 911s, too.
Porsche hasn't divulged a release date for the revamped Turbo models, but with all the models through the 911 GT3 now updated into 992.2-gen form, we fully expect to see a reveal happen at some point in the 2025 calendar year.
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