Hello and welcome to The Downshift, a daily sweep of the morning’s top headlines from the auto industry and car culture, curated by The Drive’s editorial team. Each story gets a short summary and a link to the original source if you want to dive deeper. Here’s what’s happening on Monday, September 21, 2026: Porsche may be working on a new hypercar codenamed “S1” and powered by a flat-eight engine, per a new report. Porsche has never before stuffed a flat-eight into a production vehicle, so this would be a pretty special occurrence. The company publicly floated the idea of such a mill as recently as the start of the decade, but that…
A Flat-Eight Porsche Hypercar Is Looking Increasingly Likely: TDS
