The Porsche LMP2000, codenamed 9R3, was a Le Mans Prototype racing car that Porsche developed between 1998 and 2000 but never raced. Norbert Singer designed the chassis. A turbocharged flat-six from the 911 was first planned but judged overweight and underpowered, so Porsche instead reworked the 3.5 litre V10 first built for Formula One in 1992 for the Footwork Arrows team, enlarging it to 5.5 litres. The board halted the project in May 1999, and after a private two-day test at Weissach with Allan McNish and Bob Wollek the one car built went into storage. Rumours blamed an agreement with Volkswagen on the Cayenne SUV. The V10 went into the Carrera GT, the car was shown at Goodwood in 2018, and the Porsche Museum restored it to running order in 2024.
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The Porsche LMP2000 (codename Porsche 9R3) is a Le Mans Prototype racing car
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In 1998 Porsche designed a Le Mans Prototype for the following season, assigning it the codename 9R3.
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The Porsche LMP2000 (codename Porsche 9R3) is a Le Mans Prototype racing car
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it was designed around a modified version of Porsche's 3.5-litre V10 engine that was originally designed for Formula 1 in 1992
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One car was built
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The project was canceled before the car was publicly unveiled
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