Porsche Designs Spaceship for Star Wars
When Porsche teamed up with Lucasfilm to design a spaceship for Star Wars, the result was the Tri-Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter, a fantasy starship that fuses the iconic Porsche design language with the universe of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Porsche has always stretched its creative muscles across many fields, and this collaboration shows how the brand's automotive styling translates onto a fictional starfighter built purely to thrill fans of the saga.
What is the Porsche Star Wars spaceship?
The Tri-Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter was a joint project between Porsche's design team and Lucasfilm, with the Porsche designers joining their counterparts in California. The team worked together to land on an instantly recognizable shape, where a soft drooping cockpit flows into an aggressive front end that borrows lighting elements from the Porsche Taycan. It is a Porsche Star Wars ship that feels at home in the film world while still carrying clear Porsche DNA.
How does it borrow from Porsche road cars?
The cabin tapers toward the rear and the topography running from the cockpit flyline to the turbines draws visual parallels with the 911 and the Taycan. That is the trick of the Porsche spaceship: it reads as a genuine Star Wars starfighter, yet the proportions, surfacing and light signatures all echo the sports cars that made Porsche famous. The Designer Alliance behind it set out to create a new class of vehicle rather than a simple movie prop.
Where can you see the Pegasus Starfighter?
The team also built a 1.5 meter physical model that was shown alongside the movie's premiere in Los Angeles. For Star Wars fans and Porsche collectors alike, the Tri-Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter remains a standout example of what happens when a legendary car maker applies its craft to science fiction.
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Sources: Porsche Newsroom and Robb Report.
