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The Spyder badge is famous in Porsche history, having being attached to some truly evocative road and race cars dating right back to the Fifties, while the engine is a hark back a little more recently in time. A time when Porsche Boxsters came with lovely, rich, sonorous six-cylinder engines and not flat-fours devoid of soul. The 718 badge was brought back to Porsche’s range in an attempt to attach some emotion to the four-cylinder switch, so making such a big deal of it on a flat-six-only car is curious.
The renamed 718 Spyder, and a car that’s basically a more voluptuous, convertible version of the 718 Cayman GT4 (yep, they kept the Cayman bit in its name). the 718 Spyder is exactly the same as a GT4 beneath its knee-tremblingly beautiful new skin So its 4.0-litre flat-six puts out the same 414bhp, the suspension is just as hardcore and identically set up to its coupe sibling, and there’s even a rear diffuser that does proper, actual downforce. The first Boxster to ever provide that.
While the engine might look – on paper – to have parachuted down from the Porsche 911 GT3 and Speedster, it’s actually a modified version of the 3.0-litre twin-turbo engine in the very latest ‘normal’ 911s. The turbos have been binned, its capacity bored out and there’s even been some cylinder deactivation worked in. Its redline sits at 8,000rpm. It’s quick – 0-60mph in 4.4secs, 187mph top speed.
We are located on sheikh Zayed Road behind Dubai Garden Center behind GTA CARS close to FGB metro station
Showroom timings are from 10am to 8pm
Saturday to Thursday
Sundays by appointment only.
