What Porsche develops on the race track, it applies to the road cars it produces – even crossovers like the Macan. One element you wouldn’t expect to see make the transmission from one to the other is its racing liveries, but looking at these show cars, we can’t help but wonder why it doesn’t.
The automaker put five Macans on the streets of Singapore, each decked out in a color scheme borrowed from one of its classic racing cars: four from versions of the 917, one from the 956 – Le Mans challengers (if not outright winers) all.
Hard as it is to choose, one of our favorites is the Martini Racing livery of red, teal, and blue stripes over white. Another wears the Rothmans livery (all too often overlooked, in our opinion) of a white upper body, dark blue lower, with gold and red stripes. There’s one in Gulf colors of baby blue and orange. And another in the Salzburg design of red with white streaks. Last but not least is the oddball Pink Pig, with dashed lines showing where the butcher would carve it up.
Porsche’s Asia Pacific division performed a similar treatment this past summer, applying Porsche’s current racing livery to a Macan Turbo (complete with the optional Performance Package). We thought that was pretty cool at the time, but to our eyes, these look even better. Or some of them do, anyway.
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