Porsche C88

Porsche C88 at the Porsche Museum

The C88 was a prototype family car designed for the Chinese market in 1994 by Porsche in response to the Chinese government's invitation to a number of international automotive manufacturers for a new range of cars.^[1] It was completed in four months by Porsche engineers and was displayed to the public at the 1994 Beijing Auto Show. The prototype is now on display in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.^[2]

The four-door compact saloon body^[3] was unlike any other Porsche, and did not feature the Porsche badge anywhere. It was designed with only one child seat--reflecting Chinese population control policy--and the prototype was presented by CEO Wendelin Wiedeking himself, who learned his speech in Mandarin.^[4] According to Porsche Museum director Dieter Landenberger, "The Chinese government said thank you very much and took the ideas for free, and if you look at Chinese cars now, you can see many details of our C88 in them."^[4]

The C88 was intended to broaden the market for Porsche designs to India, where it was also unsuccessful.^[5] Porsche has more recently engineered small cars for a range of manufacturers--including the Audi RS2, Lada Samara and SEAT Ibiza.^[6]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Porsche C88.

• Official Porsche Engineering website

Porsche
A subsidiary of Volkswagen Group
Volkswagen Group marques & companies	Volkswagen Passenger Cars Audi quattro GmbH Bentley Bugatti Lamborghini Porsche SEAT Škoda Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Scania Ducati
Cars	Current models 991 718 Panamera Cayenne Macan Future models 960 Mission E Panamera Coupe Panamera Shooting Brake Past models 356 911 Classic 911 GT1 912 914 918 924 928 930 944 959 964 968 993 996 997 Boxster Cayman Carrera GT Concepts 114 356/1 695 901 969 989 C88 Panamerica Mission E
Tractors	Junior Super
Motorsport	Championships Porsche Junioren Porsche Supercup Australian Carrera Cup Carrera Cup Germany Carrera Cup Great Britain Carrera Cup Scandinavia Carrera Cup France Racing cars 64 360 550 718 787 804 904 906 907 908 909 910 911 GT1 911 GT2 911 GT3 914-6 GT 917 934 935 936 953 956 961 962 WSC-95 LMP RS Spyder 919
People	Porsche family Ferdinand Porsche Ferry Porsche F. A. Porsche Ferdinand Piëch Louise Piëch CEOs Ernst Fuhrmann Peter Schutz Arno Bohn → Heinz Branitzki → Wendelin Wiedeking Michael Macht Matthias Müller Ulrich Bez Helmuth Bott Wolfgang Dürheimer Robert Eberan von Eberhorst Fritz Huschke von Hanstein Holger Härter Al Holbert Uwe Hück Erwin Komenda Harm Lagaay Herbert Linge Michael Mauer Hans Mezger Karl Rabe Franz Xaver Reimspiess Adolf Rosenberger Norbert Singer Alvin Springer Hans von Veyder-Malberg
Other	Porsche official website Porsche Design Group Porsche Engineering Volkswagen Group List of Porsche engines Tiptronic VarioCam Porsche Club of America Porsche SE
Category Commons