RE: New 718 Boxster Spyder pics

RE: New 718 Boxster Spyder pics

Monday 20th November 2017

New 718 Boxster Spyder pics

This has to have six cylinders, doesn't it?



Rather lost in the furore around the Cayman GT4, the 3.8-litre Boxster Spyder was - and remains - a fabulous car. Emboldened with that 911 engine and finally fitted with a roof that human adults could operate, it proved that the potential in the Boxster was absolutely worth tapping into. And while popular discussion may have been focused on its hardtop sibling, used values are certainly reflecting the Spyder's hallowed status...


Here is that car's replacement, the 718 Boxster Spyder. As before, there's a more ornate roof arrangement, plus a few external hints to the Spyder's greater performance potential: note the new exhaust arrangement (with revised diffuser), the reintroduction of the rear buttresses and more aggressive front bumper/grille. If our eyes don't deceive us this car is using Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s as well, plus what look like Cayman GT4 wheels.

And nobody cares, do they? What we need to know is whether this car will use the much maligned flat-four turbo from the regular 718 models, or the 3.8-litre flat-six from the previous Spyder. The twin-turbo 3.0-litre from the 911 Carreras won't fit, so it really is down to those two engines. Autocar maintains that the atmospheric engine will remain, though don't forget the flat-four has recently been boosted to create the GTS models that are within 20hp of the old GT4 - presumably they could go further still, so let's hope the Motorsport division get their wish and the bigger engine remains.


When can we expect this Spyder? In the 981 generation car, there was a year between the release of GTS and Spyder, the latter making its debut at the New York show in 2015. With the 718 GTS models imminent, the Spyder - and hopefully a GT4 - will follow at some point in 2018. Is Geneva too optimistic? Let's wait and see!

[Source: Autocar]
[Photos: S. Baldauf/SB-Medien]

 

 

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suffolk009

Original Poster:

5,344 posts

164 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Six please.

Just love that yowl as you change up from 3rd to 4th.

Ex Boy Racer

1,151 posts

191 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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As probably none of us will be able to actually buy one, do we care at all?

Audemars

507 posts

97 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Why is there a spyder of this car? The boxster is already a convertible. You cant polish a turd.

Skylinecrazy

13,986 posts

193 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Long live NA and manual Porsche.

PixelpeepS3

8,600 posts

141 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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i think that looks lovely. cloud9

shoestring7

6,138 posts

245 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Never going to happen; Porsche is not a business that admits to making a mistake.

SS7

anniesdad

14,589 posts

237 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Phwooar! Yes please!

NJJ

432 posts

79 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Anything other than the horrid 4-cylinder sound! Given that it is a specialist model akin to a GT, I would be amazed if it did not have the classic NA 6-cylinder.

chris333

1,034 posts

238 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Surely just ask the photographer whether he could tell if it was a 4 or a 6 from the noise?

NJJ

432 posts

79 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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chris333 said:
Surely just ask the photographer whether he could tell if it was a 4 or a 6 from the noise?
That assumes that it wasn't one of Porsche's own!

HighwayStar

4,215 posts

143 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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shoestring7 said:
Never going to happen; Porsche is not a business that admits to making a mistake.

SS7
That would be true if they were struggling to sell 718 Caysters but they're not. General car buyers have no interest in whether a car in the finer mechanical points of the car... just that it looks good, it's comfy and has the toys and tech they won't. Plenty of 718 customers won't know the F6 ever existed or care. There are also those who've had 981's, moved over to the 718 and like the engine, love the low down torque available or simply don't think the noise the engine makes is important. Some just want a Porsche. Personally I prefer the F6
I think the Spyder and the GT4 will be F6, the head of Porsche GT models has said more than once.
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-shots/porsche/por...

jakesmith

9,461 posts

170 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Audemars said:
Why is there a spyder of this car? The boxster is already a convertible. You cant polish a turd.
You are in a very slender minority, with your (obnoxiously stated) 'opinion'.

996TT02

3,308 posts

139 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Love the spyder, but the front end is now becoming devastatingly boring, very F360 (extinct in 2005).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thu...

Trophy-GTA

101 posts

97 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Another week, another porsche on pistonheads.

GTEYE

2,092 posts

209 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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HighwayStar said:
shoestring7 said:
Never going to happen; Porsche is not a business that admits to making a mistake.

SS7
That would be true if they were struggling to sell 718 Caysters but they're not. General car buyers have no interest in whether a car in the finer mechanical points of the car... just that it looks good, it's comfy and has the toys and tech they won't. Plenty of 718 customers won't know the F6 ever existed or care. There are also those who've had 981's, moved over to the 718 and like the engine, love the low down torque available or simply don't think the noise the engine makes is important. Some just want a Porsche. Personally I prefer the F6
I think the Spyder and the GT4 will be F6, the head of Porsche GT models has said more than once.
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-shots/porsche/por...
And according to the official stats Boxster sales in Europe

2017 to September 6,549
2016 full year 4,670
2015 full year 4,655
2014 full year 5,028

So which mistake would that be?

Porsche seem to know their customers rather better than some PH members think they do

stimpy888

13 posts

155 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Audemars said:
Why is there a spyder of this car? The boxster is already a convertible. You cant polish a turd.
But you can roll it in glitter!

Futse

182 posts

184 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Trophy-GTA said:
Another week, another porsche on pistonheads.
Well, it is a car website, and there's news from Porsche, so....

Audemars

507 posts

97 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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jakesmith said:
Audemars said:
Why is there a spyder of this car? The boxster is already a convertible. You cant polish a turd.
You are in a very slender minority, with your (obnoxiously stated) 'opinion'.
I think you will find you are in the minority and I mean probably approx less than 1% of the population.

Seriously why is there this version?

anniesdad

14,589 posts

237 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Audemars said:
I think you will find you are in the minority and I mean probably approx less than 1% of the population.

Seriously why is there this version?
AFAIK, the Spyder's are lightened through the lack of electric motors for the roof, it has a lower CoG than the Boxster, lightened panels, more power, stripped interior (no radio/air con but can be put back in), more grip. There's many more other detail changes. A standard Boxster on track wouldn't be as much fun as this. I also think it gives those that can't get in to a GT car for whatever reason a chance at getting something that's a bit sharper than the standard cars.

MikeGoodwin

3,323 posts

116 months

Monday 20th November 2017
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Heard a 718 the other day it sounded absolutely horrid. Huge shame.