A designer rendered Porsche 996 cues onto the Daewoo Matiz. Fried-egg headlights and a Turbo-style bumper anchor the redesign. The idea began as gallery artwork shown in Seoul, Korea. The Daewoo Matiz sold under Chevrolet badges, and even Pontiac ones in Mexico, is remembered as a cheap city car that Italdesign Giugiaro drew in the ’90s from leftovers of a cancelled Fiat Cinquecento revival. Independent designer Timur Dautov looked at that same shape and saw a 996 Porsche 911 hiding in it, so he grafted on the cues in a series of renders to prove the point. More: Porsche’s Most Mocked Design Scrambles Onto A New 911, And Somehow It Works The project began as a Matiz Carrera 4S artwork shown at the EREVO Sinsa Gallery in Seoul, Korea, alongside other pieces built around the fried-egg headlights of the 996. It went over well enough that Dautov followed it up with realistic renderings, which is how we ended up wanting someone to actually build it. Timur Dautov / Instagram The highlight of the redesign is a set of headlights from a pre-facelift 996 worked into the stubby hood of the little Daewoo without looking bolted on. Below them sits a Turbo-style bumper with oversized cooling intakes and an integrated splitter. The profile features wide fender extensions, 996 graphics, and a new set of alloy wheels with Porsche’s iconic five-spoke design. At the back, the taillight assembly gets connected by a full-width red reflector strip reminiscent of the 911 Carrera 4S. Joining it are a modest roof spoiler, black decals that read as a lower back tattoo, body-colored bumper trim, and dual tailpipes poking out of the stock diffuser. Timur Dautov / Instagram Dautov studied design in Moscow and put in time at Mitsubishi in Japan before moving to Korea for a job with an unnamed local automaker. In his social media post, he wrote: “I always thought the Matiz looked like it was designed in collaboration with Porsche, so the fried-egg headlights fit it perfectly,” adding that the 996 ranks among his favorite cars. More: Tiny Daewoo Matiz With V6 Engine Swap Proves Horsepower Can Make Any Car Ridiculous Timur Dautov / Instagram The first generation of the Daewoo Matiz was introduced in 1998, one year after Porsche launched the fifth-generation 911. The city car ran a 0.8-liter three-cylinder making 51 hp (38 kW / 52 PS), a number that sits some distance from the 296 hp (221 kW / 300 PS) of the naturally aspirated 3.4-liter flat-six in the base 996 Carrera. For now the Matiz Carrera lives entirely in the digital world, unless someone with a spare 996 parts car and a serious tolerance for ridicule decides otherwise. Interestingly, a couple of years ago we covered a unique Matiz from PowerCrazy Automotive with a 3.2-liter V6 powertrain transplant and Porsche alloy wheels, making it the perfect donor vehicle for the proposed conversion.
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