The capricious Porsche Pajun->ke4360 has been out of the headlines since reports circulated in July 2014 that Porsche->ke1 was setting aside production of the model for supposed business reasons. Since then, we’ve heard nary a peep about the junior Panamera.->ke1840 We would’ve filed the Pajun deep within our memory banks had Porsche Design not released renderings of its prized new creation, the Porsche Design Tower.

The renderings show what you’d expect for any luxury condo: spacious units, floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and personal pools in balconies.

But one rendering did catch our eye. It’s a depiction of the PDT’s sky garage with a Porsche safely parked on a mechanism oin the garage. A closer inspection reveals that the rendered Porsche, while sporting a similar roofline to the Panamera, is a little smaller than the luxury saloon->ke505 and appears to ride on a shorter wheelbase.

Our Spidey senses naturally tingled, thinking that this is actually a rendering of the Pajun.

While that may be the case, it doesn’t mean that development of the car has restarted. It could very well be just a whimsical interpretation of a car that we might not even see for quite some time, it at all.

But we’ll take hints of the Pajun, legitimate or otherwise, any way we can get them. If it comes by way of a rendering of an uber-luxury condo in Miami that none of us can afford to begin with, then so be it.

Click past the jump to read more about the Porsche Pajun.

Why it matters

The rendering probably doesn’t matter since Porsche has given no indication that it’s reversing course and restarting development of the Pajun.

For all we know, it could just be the Panamera, captured in a rather complicated angle that doesn’t properly highlight its enormous size. It might even be Porsche Design’s very own version of an Easter Egg that doesn’t amount to anything other than auto scribes like us scrambling to wonder whether the Pajun is really back on track.

Whatever the case may be, there's still a pocket of people who believe that the Pajun is still part of Porsche's short-term plans. Any indication supporting that inkling is worth exploring.

Porsche Pajun

For all of the preconceived hangups that besieged the Porsche Panamera when it first hit the market in 2010, the luxury saloon still turned out to be a big hit for the German automaker. The success of the Panamera introduced Porsche to a new segment of buyers. Sensing that it could take full advantage of this new market, reports began circulating that Stuttgart was planning to develop a smaller version of the Panamera.

The car was dubbed the Pajun, and at that time, it was supposedly being prepared to take on the Maserati Ghibli. Other reports indicated that the Pajun would be fitted with a series of V-6 engines that would produce anywhere from 260 horsepower for the base model all the way up to 520 ponies for the top-of-the-line version.

Ultimately, there was more speculation about the Pajun than there were substantiated reports from Porsche. Last we heard, the German automaker has iced its development on orders from parent company Volkswagen. That doesn’t mean the Pajun is gone forever, but if you were expecting to see the car by 2017, that’s unlikely to happen now.