The Definitive Porsche Roadster ~ The New Boxster Spyder

The new Boxster Spyder is the lightest car made by Porsche and was designed for open air driving with only a modest cloth top to keep out the weather.

A lightweight version of the mid-engined Porsche Boxster roadster, the Spyder, represents the true, purist form of the Porsche sports car - light, powerful, open-roofed and very efficient.
Weighing 1,275 kg, the Boxster Spyder is the lightest model in the Porsche line-up, and continues this clear-cut philosophy in a package offering full homologation for the road, and fulfilling a popular wish expressed by Porsche customers.
The new model becomes the third version in the Boxster range, joining the Boxster and Boxster S, yet at first sight stands out clearly from the other models.

This is quite simply because the Spyder has been developed essentially for driving in the open air.
The Boxster Spyder is first and foremost a Boxster - but interpreted in a totally new way.
The purist character of the car is evident at first sight, with particular emphasis on the two-seater roadster design with its mid-engine.
The new, elegantly long rear lid, together with new wheels and distinctive styling touches inside and out, give the car an absolutely unique look.
The low-slung, lightweight soft top extends far to the rear at a distinctive angle and serves to protect the driver and passenger from bright sunshine, wind and rain.
When closed, the soft top, together with the bespoke, shallower side windows and the two unique striking bulges on the single-piece rear engine cover, boasts a stretched and sleek silhouette reminiscent of the Carrera GT super sportscar.
And classic Porsche logos run along the bottom of each door as a leitmotif inspired by earlier Porsche Spyder racecars.