The legendary Porsche has a perfectly hidden storage space in which you could smuggle a lot, hardly anyone knows about it
7 hours ago | Peter Miller
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Photo: Bonhams, press materials
This car is so “sloppy” that you would expect at least car enthusiasts to know all about it. But even though it has been around for almost two decades, the existence of this hidden storage space has escaped almost everyone’s attention. It’s so well hidden.
When you are intensely interested in cars and devour magazines of all kinds for decades, at least you know pretty much everything about the new cars of your era. And what happens if you start writing about them? As long as you’re “just” a hobbyist, you’re naturally interested in what interests you, um, but as soon as it becomes work, countless amounts of essentially useless information about the cars that otherwise pass you by will start pouring into your head. And you can’t take them out anymore.
I’m sure if you’re into cars, you know a lot about them, but just to give you a heads up: Can you list the entire 2003 Kia Picanto SA engine lineup from memory, including the part numbers? Probably not, but personally I find it in my head, for some reason it once interested me and remained in my head just like thousands of other similar facts.
I don’t mean to say that an automotive journalist is some kind of know-it-all before whom everyone should bow, on the contrary: we know “everything” on the one hand and nothing on the other, so if someone is really interested in the details of a car, will always know details that a journalist has no chance of absorbing. Since you have relatively enough information in your head about hundreds, if not thousands of models, it must necessarily be more or less superficial. However, and perhaps because of this, it happens that an interesting detail is missed about an interesting car that should have been legendary a long time ago. But for some reason this did not happen.
So I have to continue like my colleague Daniel Golson at Jalopnik, who noticed an interesting detail about the otherwise legendary Porsche Carrera GT offered at the Bonhams auction. The soon-to-be-twenty-year-old Porsche icon, with its amazing-sounding V10 engine, is one of those cars that everyone, enthusiasts and journalists, loves to take an interest in. We’ve written countless articles about him ourselves, and Daniel also claims to have an absurd amount of information in his head about countless new cars. Yet he had never noticed that Porsche had equipped the Carrera GT with a perfectly hidden space in the doors.
I frankly admit that I didn’t even know him until now. And with a little research in my automotive neighborhood, I found that almost no one knows this, not even most big Porsche fans. At the same time, it’s actually a rather trivial matter: the Carrera GT has very wide thresholds due to its design and focus, and such cars must also have very wide doors. They seem to just take up space, so Porsche designers thought they could make use of the space in the otherwise impractical roadster’s hollow doors. In their upper part, only when opened will a piece of black plastic appear, the right half of which you just need to press and voilà – a secret hole will open for you.
There is a kind of leather bag inside (the color of the interior lining, obviously, we are in Germany) with a drawstring, which is not large, but can be comfortable. You probably won’t fill it with a purchase from Lidl, unless you’ve just bought some fake lentils there, which you pour in, but we can imagine you could smuggle a lot of it in. Because if car enthusiasts don’t know, customs officials are unlikely to know. Even though now we could help ruin it…
Interestingly, fillings of these spaces, while small, are not at all cheap. The Porsche spare parts catalog says that a leather bag like the one in the photos from Bonhams, which offers a French-registered black Carrera GT for sale, will cost less than CZK 23,000. However, if you have the light version with the carbon Weissach package, you already have to prepare 91 thousand crowns. Maybe that’s why this storage is not known. After all, who would risk losing such expensive bags, the use of which is – due to the impossibility of removing them while driving – very limited?
As always pleasant, the Carrera GT on sale this time showed more than usual. Note the gadget in the driver’s door, the same in the passenger door, only without the bag. Photo: Bonhams, press materials
Sources: Jalopnik, Bonhams
Peter Miler
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2024-01-20 05:23:30
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