Boxster S RS Spyder Now Official
 

Well, it is now official, a Boxster S RS RS Spyder is on the way. Try this link:

http://www.motorauthority.com/cars/porsche/porsche-boxster-rs-60-spyder/

All this makes me believe that the facelift is really going to arrive later than March '08, more like September '08 as others are projecting.

vincesf

The gauge cluster is a disaster

Here is the link from Porsche's web-site:

http://www.porsche.com/microsite/boxsterrs60/usa.aspx

I have to say I'm pretty disappointed in Porsche and their 'special additions'. Seems like the Porsche Design Cayman and this Boxster could pretty much be ordered the same way if you pick the options (minus the nameplate). If they are going to go through the effort to produce a special addition why not drop a 3.6L or 3.8L engine in it and make it really special, don't just select a combination of options that are already available.

At least give it wheels or something that you can't otherwise get. Doesn't seem so special to me. :confused:

I do realize they are trying to model it after the old Spyder but still, they could take it a bit further.

I agree with DrBurton!

So do I.

I'm disappointed too, that these new special Porsches just have BNG. (Bold New Graphics)

303 hp makes it the fastest boxster yet right? :)

Stock, yes, the '08 S reaches 295HP. Porsche engineers yet again meet the claim that a Boxster will never replace the HP in a stock 911. Give us 325!

303hp.. i wouldnt mind the cluster haha
I couldnt live with that interior color, Rather have black or tan

Wow, I like it! This special edition actually has some bespoke touches that haven't been seen before. The missing hood over the gauges is a little funky, but I could live with that, depending on the price.

I love the carrerra red interior, although it looks pink in that first link. I've seen Carrera red in person before and it's not pink at all.

If porsche can get the price right (around $60,000) I might step up, as I'm afraid I'm not going to like the 2009 body style.

But then... I do want the newer engines... argh....

The color combo is aboslutely gorgeous!!!! But as everyone said, you can order it that way as an regular, or S. Anyone notice the top is also red? I like the instrument cluster, but I like different anyway.

Well, there's quite a few items on there that you couldn't just order:

- exhaust (possibly--people seem to think it's not just PSE)
- carrera red interior (porsche exclusive)
- fancy schmancy shift knob (porsche exclusive)
- gauge hood delete (porsche exclusive?)
- door sills
- perforated leather steering wheel (porsches exclusive?)

and there's probably other things I didn't notice.

303 hp engine....?

i dont really like the new design, kinda remind me of a honda s2000 a little bit in a weird way :(

I want it, but I cannt have it.........


Ed

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Actually there are items on this edition that I do not believe can be ordered on a regular production Boxster S.

1. Exhaust System - This differs from the current Sport Exhaust System as it actually increases the car by 8 horsepower, whereas the current optional Sport Exhaust does not increase horsepower. Quite frankly are you really going to notice 8 horsepower?
Yes, the sound is great but so is the sound on the Standard and Optional Sport Exhaust Systems.

2. Perforated Steering Wheel and Gauge Cluster are also unique to this Edition. Not sure I like them, but my guess is that we may be getting a preview of the 2009 facelifted Boxster cluster.

3. Badges and Door Sill graphics, yes unique, but really who cares. Not too thrilling that you are xxxx of 1960 made.

4. Red Interior is very polarizing (some love it, some hate it), but if you don't like it, an alternative choice of dark grey natural leather in conjunction with a black roof will also be available for the Edition.

All the other items are not really unique to the Edition, such as an aluminum colored center console and gear shift, the red tail-lights (if not, you can certainly order them through Porsche parts), and the front air dam, is the front half of the Sport Design Package.

In my opinion the perfect car they could have come up with is the new DFI engine in the current body-style. Now that would have been a great transition car, and as close as a new Boxster could come to perfection in my opinion.
vincesf

I listened to the sound clip for the exhaust system on the new RS and it sounds a lot like my PSE.

Heck, maybe I "picked-up" 8 HP's this past April when I had it put in. My butt-dyno actually confirms this too! :D

I love it and want one. But will wait to buy a used one many years from now. After someone else replaces the RMS! LOL! :p

I bet some of those options (like the exhaust and the steering wheel) turn up in the Tequipment brochure!
Geez, even if Porsche doesn't want to put 911 power in a Boxster, I sure wish they'd give us a real RS model: significant weight reduction, sport suspension with some adjustment, a limited slip, option deletes like A/C, some more down-force, and R compound tires.
That would be one smokin little Spyder!

303 HP makes it faster than 98% of the Porsches ever built.

Ho hum. Doesn't do a thing for me. Come spring when I've saved up the money and get my monster Turbowerx engine makeover, the special edition Spydyers will be watching my plain old 04S tail lights vanish in the distance.

so I always am in the Camp of more horsepower but I saw in I think motortrend a cayman that had like 395 horsepower.....some aftermarket do up....that ended with a price tag of over 100K....and even they said while the HP was great, the gar was 4 tenths of a second faster than the stock S.....with that being said....give me the horsepower anyways! :D

oh sorry, I like the color combo....but I do think the interior is too much with alternating silver and red but then I thought the black wheels on the orange SE sucked, and the Cayman SE was a waste of paint :D

RS = REAL STUPID
RS = REAL SLOW

Stupid that you would put an RS on a car and only bump the power by a few horses. You have to be a Real Sucker to buy this RS and pay the premium.

I agree 100%.
The RS name implies a RennSport model. To me that means light weight and a strong power to weight ratio. Why not a speedster type RS. Imagine Less sound deading, radio and ac delete, manual roof, less insulation in the roof, adjustable suspension, a RS badge. if Porsche is going to make cars and name them after infamous past models at least maintain that RS means something.

By the way all 1960 will sell out.

If they would have called this special edition anything except RS I would appreciate it more.

If it's priced in a manner similar to the orange special edition, the "premium" is actually a "discount".

Very true, as the Orange Edition is a relative bargain, if you priced out the Sport Exhaust ($2,000) and Sport Design Package ($5,800), they are almost $8,000 if ordered alone, and then there is the Alcantra, etc. Perhaps Porsche will do the same here with the S RS.
vincesf

If i was buying a new Boxster i would jump to have this it is so HOT!!!!!

I think it is a winner, Certain people want limited edition models, Porsche know this and can make extra bucks and tons of PR from it.

This has a page dedicated to it in the Aberdeen car supliment in the paper.

They cant use up all there tricks now re: engine, they dont need too.

James

in Canadian Prices, it's a Deal!
 

Haven't seen any US pricing, but here is how it stacks up in Canada:

$70,200 Base Boxster S - source Porsche Canada
$81,900 RS 60 Edition - source: Canadian Driver
$11,700 Premium

Definately worth it if you look at individual prices in CAD:
$5,050 for Carrera Red leather
$2,720 for the 19" rim upgrade
$2,790 for PASM
$2,940 for the Sport Exhaust
$4,390 for GT Silver metallic "Special Color"
$17,890

Some of those option prices are insane though. How is GT silver worth $3,400 more than Arctic Silver ??

I'm not a fan of the wheels. But that gauge cluster is gorgeous.

If it had Carrera S wheels I'd buy one (I'm not too fond on spec'ing different wheels on a special edition).

Don't forget the sport seats, Exclusive shift knob/handbrake, sport chrono, PCM, likely Bose stereo system, et cetera.

That number looks about right. If it's anything like that here in the US, wow, I'm going to be severely tempted....

The paint options are a joke though. in 2005 Cobalt Blue was a $3000 option, then in 2006 or 2007 they changed it so that it was only an $800 option, but they took Atlas Grey, which was an $800 color and made it a $3000 color!!! SO ARBITRARY. :matchup:

Well, it's up on the Porsche configurator now. $64,900.

I'm a bit disappointed though. It doesn't have a lot of the equipment that was shown in the press pictures.

The following are not standard:

- PCM
- Sport Chrono
- Xenon headlights
- Heated seats
- Parking assist

All of those items were shown on the car in the microsite. :(

It's still not a "bad" deal, considering all the exclusive options, but now it's a lot less compelling.

I agree. But the so-called dark grey is what I call black if it is the same as the 04 SE had as option.

I could like that car with black paint & top over tan interior.

And why not offer the 5-gauge instrument pod reporting on the 997S engine?

I could love that.

Should I be excited? :confused:

Those orange 987's are more aesthetically pleasing.

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$17,890.00…same horse…where’s P. T. Barnum…

PK

I will stick with my 2004 special edition
 

I actually like my color combination of the silver and cocoa better, but that is just my opinion.