- Rendering artist Khyzyl Saleem reveals his distinct vision of the 964 Porsche 911.
- The render boasts sharp body panels and creases with unusual headlights.
- “911-X” is not intended to make production, but demand could change that.
In a world full of restomods based on the Porsche 964, it’s typically the finer details that separate the wheat from the chaff, but there’s no need for magnification and close inspection to tell that rendering artist Khyzyl Saleem’s take on the popular Porsche 911 is something unlike any other. Dubbed the 911-X, this imagination-fueled render takes the 964’s smooth and sleek lines and throws them out the window, adding straight lines and creases to just about every inch of the car. The result is something gobsmackingly unique, albeit odd, but the artist, better known as The Kyza, was intentional about that.
The Kyza Returns To His Roots With 911-X
For those unfamiliar with The Kyza and his career to date, his work has included designing screen-bound cars for gaming titles like Need for Speed and, more recently, real cars like the TWR Supercat, a high-performance Jaguar XJS coupe with highly unconventional styling. While these will have been satisfying projects for the designer, his post revealing the 911-X announces that designing cars according to the tastes of others is less enjoyable than crafting something with no limits, and this creation brings him back to his sci-fi roots, “with the goal of wanting to create something fun and explorative.”
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Such is this design’s disdain for curves that even the headlights are no longer round, replaced by narrow flics of LED strip lighting in an exposed carbon fiber surround that, from some angles, calls to mind a Nissan 240Z. The widened front fenders are also less round, with a box flare around the wheel arch. The front fascia, with more carbon fiber wrapping all the way around as part of a splitter and dive plane combination, haphazardly meets the boxy arch around the middle of the front wheel, which has been rendered as an HRE design with aero covers around the rim. The rocker panels pick this up as they swoop down toward the rear arch, which is now creased all the way into the door, meeting the carbon rocker panel element at the front shutline. That crease continues rearward into a wraparound dual-element spoiler that sits above a pair of venturi tunnels and the taillights. From some angles, it’s almost reminiscent of a Singer DLS Turbo.
Perpetually Conceptual, Unless You REALLY Like It
The render also adds some fins to the roof, and behind the side window are intake scoops that feed nothing, creating a sort of flying buttress that draws the eye to an X-shaped carbon rear windshield panel, below which a hint of glass remains. Clearly, this widebody, bewinged behemoth is impractical to drive, and its quirky exposed front wheels, wacky wings, and totally alien overall feel would make it very expensive to realize in the real world. But that’s not to say such a thing is impossible – The Kyza has brought some of his crazy designs to life through the Live To Offend brand of body kits, and if there were enough demand from 964 owners for a kit like this, it could become feasible in the real world. As strange as this is, and as unlikely for the real world as it is, at least one thing is for sure: this 964 Porsche 911 would never be mistaken for anything but a Kyza creation, and that’s ultimately the point of its existence.
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