The 2025 Porsche 911: What You Need to Know

The 911 never stops changing. Here’s what’s coming next for the sports car icon.

Published January 2, 2024

Updated January 2, 2024

It doesn’t feel like it’s been all that long since Porsche debuted the 992-generation 911. Indeed, Porsche is still fleshing out the 911 lineup with new variants. But we’re now several years into what is typically around a seven-year run for a Porsche 911 generation, and that means a mid-cycle refresh should be arriving very soon — most likely, in calendar year 2024, to sync up with the 60th anniversary of the production start of the 911.

Here’s everything we know so far about what Porsche has planned for the upcoming 2025 model year 992.2-generation Porsche 911.

The 2025 Porsche 911 should look like … well, a 911

The 911 has changed dramatically since its debut in the 1960s — but not so much visually or proportionally. Don’t expect Porsche to radically rethink the 911, especially for a mid-cycle refresh. Spy photos of prototypes under testing have revealed minimal changes, with the most obvious appearing to be active air shutters on the revised front fascia, which should help improve fuel economy.

The 2025 Porsche 911 could move back towards naturally aspirated engines

Currently, you can get a naturally-aspirated flat-six in the 911, but to do so, you need to level up to the $183,000-plus 911 GT3 or even pricer models, like the $290,000 911 S/T whose tachometer is seen here. Lesser models all use a twin-turbo 3.0-liter flat-six, first brought to the lineup in 2015 in an effort to meet more restrictive emissions standards.

According to a December 2023 report from Car and Driver, though, the 992.2 generation Porsche 911 may wind up adding new naturally aspirated models to the mix — and they reportedly won’t be limited to the pricier end of the lineup. While the base Carrera and Carrera S models will allegedly stick with their twin-turbo 3.0-liter flat-six — albeit with minor power boosts — the next 911 Carrera GTS will purportedly use a new 3.6-liter naturally aspirated boxer six. Power will reportedly be similar to the outgoing model, but obviously, the lack of turbos should change the character and power delivery. Given Porsche’s usual model rollout cadence, we’d expect the new GTS to arrive around a year after the 992.2 Carrera / Carrera S debut, so figure on seeing this engine — if the rumors are true — in mid-to-late 2025.

Interestingly, C/D’s report claims the new 3.6 will ultimately replace the forced-induction 3.0-liter and the 911 GT3’s 4.0-liter boxer throughout the lineup. Credit, as it turns out, emissions standards once again; as Porsche’s head of motorsport Frank-Steffen Walliser said in 2020, the next generation of European standards will actually favor larger engines.

The next-gen 911 Turbo / Turbo S could pack new, smaller engines

The 992.2-generation Porsche 911 Turbo and Turbo S will also use a 3.6-liter flat-six, according to C/D‘s report. Obviously, however, that 3.6 will boast turbochargers.

While it would be a slight downsize versus the current model’s 3,745-cc twin-turbo boxer, odds seem extremely good that it will still produce more power than the current version. All told, if the reports are true, it seems like all new 911s may use a 3.6-liter engine by the end of the decade, and the turbocharged versions will be reserved for Turbo models … just as God intended.

A 911 Hybrid is likely, and should arrive no later than 2025

While Porsche has certainly embraced hybridization with zeal — note that all the most potent versions of the new Panamera are gas-electric models — the 911 has so far avoided adding electric motors to its internal combustion powerplants. That’s expected to change for the 992.2 generation.

Unlike the rest of the brand’s hybrids, it won’t be a plug-in hybrid; rather, its small battery pack will be charged by the engine and braking system. Car and Driver claims the system will initially offer power similar to the 911 Carrera GTS, but more potent versions are possible … and, ultimately, likely.

Learn more about the future Porsche 911 hybrid here.

There won’t be an electric Porsche 911 … yet

Unlike other manufacturers, Porsche has not committed to going completely electric. We have the Taycan already, and the next generations of entry-level cars like the 718 Cayman/Boxster and Macan SUV will be electric.

But the 911 — what with its particular rear-engined blend of vehicle dynamics and weight distribution being so crucial to its identity — will be a hard car to convert to electric mobility. Porsche has said that it doesn’t see that happening before 2030 at the earliest.

The 911 could stick with internal combustion for a long time, thanks to eFuel

Porsche has also been developing synthetic eFuel for combustion engines that would dramatically reduce emissions. An eFuel-powered 911 could theoretically arrive as soon as 2024, but until the automaker can scale the technology up enough to make it relatively affordable, odds are good it’ll be reserved for niche cases like, say, setting altitude records.

Still, should the brand learn to make eFuel available for a reasonable price (at least, reasonable for 911 buyers), it’s possible that the flat-six-powered Porsche could continue in production for decades to come. Indeed, for all we know, the last gas-powered new car ever to be made could one day be a Porsche 911.