{"id":3080,"date":"2019-11-18T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.design911.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:42:56","slug":"the-new-porsche-718-spyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.design911.co.uk\/blog\/the-new-porsche-718-spyder\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Porsche 718 Spyder"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"review-section__main-content\">This car is a fantastic nod to the past. 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.<\/p>\n<p>However, this isn\u2019t a Boxster. It definitely follows in the footsteps of two generations of Boxster Spyder, this model has been named 718 Spyder. It\u2019s a move that lacks logic \u2013 the 718 badge was brought back to Porsche\u2019s 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. But let\u2019s just put it down to some marketing plan that our little brains will never understand and get on with digesting the spec of the car.<\/p>\n<p>The spec is incredible. The Spyder\u2019s gradually ramped up the aggression with each model. The first, released in 2010, had a roof so delicate and flimsy that you couldn\u2019t drive the car at speed with the fabric in place. The second was introduced in 2015\u00a0alongside the first Cayman GT4, and while they shared an engine, the Spyder\u2019s was detuned by 10bhp and its suspension setup came from the softer, less track-focused Boxster GTS. A more substantial (though still fiddly to operate) roof could at least cope with its top speed this time around,\u00a0though.<\/p>\n<p>And now we get to 2019, the renamed 718 Spyder, and a car that\u2019s basically a more voluptuous, convertible version of the\u00a0718 Cayman GT4\u00a0(yep, they kept the Cayman bit in its name). 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\u2019s even a rear diffuser that does proper, actual downforce. The first Boxster to ever provide\u00a0that.<\/p>\n<p>While the engine might look to have parachuted down from the Porsche 911 GT3 and Speedster, it\u2019s actually a modified version of the 3.0-litre twin-turbo engine in the very latest \u2018normal\u2019 911s. The turbos have been binned, its capacity bored out and there\u2019s even been some cylinder deactivation worked in. It operates solely through a six-speed manual gearbox.<\/p>\n<p>This is a different kind of engine for a Porsche Motorsport special; anyone who\u2019s experienced the joyfully unfinessed low-speed manners of something like a 911 R will feel like they\u2019re stepping into an S-Class here. It\u2019s smooth, polite and utterly professional. Its redline sits at\u00a08,000rpm.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quick \u2013 0-62mph in 4.4secs, 187mph top speed \u2013 but actually no quicker than regular Boxsters thanks to the Spyder actually weighing more, at 1,495kg. That\u2019s despite its much simpler roof\u00a0mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s electric for the first few seconds of its operation, but once the huge rear panel has clunked up you have to walk around the back of the Spyder, hoik it up, then manhandle the fabric roof up and down before clunking the panel back into place. It sounds involved, but is reasonably simple, though naturally all has to be done at a complete standstill. 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