Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Porsche Boxster Spyder: the lightest Boxster on the block”.
It’S good for the verge and I’m standing in front of the Porsche Boxster Spyder, which is the latest version of the company’s long-running series of relatively low-cost convertibles relatively speaking. This this particular model is special because it’s stripped is like all. The options are gone. If you buy it stock, there’s no radio, there’s no air-conditioning and the top opens manually. It’S a cloth top with a vinyl rear window very, very old-school. It’S designed to evoke old-school spiders, which are traditionally over the roof cars, but that doesn’t mean cheap.
It’S it’s 82. Over 82 thousand dollars to start – and fortunately, if you want to add in things like air conditioning or radio, you can do so at no cost. So it’s not that this is a cheap box for by any stretch of the imagination, it’s just lightweight. Everything has been taken out: Boxster has a 375 horsepower inline six, which is a little up rated from other boxers in the range, even the relatively high-end Boxster GTS. So this car really is all about performance, and that goes hand-in-hand with the fact that it’s super lightweight it has a manual transmission.
You can’t get any other kind of transmission which is increasingly rare and it doesn’t come with a radio or a navigation system or air conditioning. It’S all about saving weight, so hopefully we’ll be able to get this thing on the road in the next few months. But then again maybe not it’s very limited edition, so we’ll see .