Yahoo Autos The Porsche Mission X Concept Has a Funny VIN
At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Porsche had its all-electric Mission X concept on display. It's stunning in person, yet one peculiar detail caught our eye–the VIN.
The VIN itself, WPOZZZWUZPS356075, is fairly innocuous, even cute. According to the VIN decoder at Stuttcars.com, WPOZZZ is the start of many Porsche sports-car VINs throughout the years, WU is typically where the model code would be listed, Z is filler for European-market cars, P is the 2023 model year, S means made in Stuttgart. The last six digits reference Porsche's first car, the 356, and 75 is a nod to this, its 75th anniversary year. (The concept was first shown 75 years to the date the first 356 was registered.)
What's intriguing is that concept cars don't typically have VINs because, well, why would they need to? They're not production units to be sold to the public and registered for road use. The Mission X's VIN feels like a bit of a wink. Porsche has said it hasn't decided if it'll build something based on the Mission X, but it seems to be dropping strong hints that it will become reality.
For starters, the "Mission" moniker has only appeared on three other Porsche concepts, the Mission E and Mission E Cross Turismo, which previewed the Taycan and Taycan Cross Turismo, and the Mission R, an EV concept that Porsche says previews a future race car. And at Le Mans, Porsche had the Mission X on display nearby a 959 (plus the 959-based 961 Le Mans race car), a Carrera GT, and a 918 Spyder—Porsche's three previous flagship supercars. The VIN feels like yet another hint.
In person, this concept car looks remarkably production ready, not some pie-in-the-sky concoction from the design team. It's been 10 years since the 918 Spyder reached production, too, so Porsche is due a new supercar. Especially when the brand is more popular than ever, and values of its special models push higher and higher.
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