http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/25...speedster.html







From EVO:

Last week the 911 GTS, this week the 911 Speedster. Anyone would think Porsche was having difficulty flogging 911s at the moment, so is coming up with ever more inventive ways of shifting metal.

Just 356 examples of the Speedster are being made available worldwide – as if you needed another clue to point you to the fact this car aims to recreate the spirit of the original 1953 356 Speedster.

Porsche is heavily into plundering the back catalogue at the moment: this year we’ve already had the Boxster Spyder reliving the 550 Spyder and the 911 Sport Classic doing a ducktail impersonation of a 1973 Carrera RS (on video here).

The 911 Speedster uses the same 408bhp engine as the Sport Classic – and come to think of it, the 911 GTS. It’s also rear-wheel drive, has the PDK gearbox as standard and uses the 44mm wider Carrera 4 body.

In Porsche’s own words it’s been ‘designed and conceived by the Porsche Exclusive department in Stuttgart’, to help celebrate that arms 25th anniversary next year. Before you go thinking this is a good thing, Porsche Exclusive does all the personalisation stuff, not the RS stuff.

Two seat only, it has a 60mm lower windscreen and the iconic double bubble humps at the back. Unique Pure Blue paint is standard, but you can have yours Carrera White for no extra charge.

Like the £137,900 Sport Classic, the Speedster will wear an equally hefty price tag when it goes on sale next January at a cost of £144,100.

 

But is it coming to North America? It's hard for me to get excited about a new 911 if it won't be offered over here...I'll take mine in white BTW - not crazy about all the blue, it's too over done IMO. And what's with the double bubble? It's like they got lazy and just molded it over the traditional convertible roof edges - it looks awkward and needs to be smoothed out...

 

Interior is awful!

Rest of the car is cool though.

 

way too expensive...but the blue is nice.

 

It's blue, when do you get yours?

 

fugly

 

Interesting. This should be appealing to many and the limited production numbers should also make this quite appealing. Interior is a bit much but there should surely be a more muted option.

 

my wife said no more blue car......actually, she said no more car buying, period.

 

Way to much but I love it

 

Agreed, white would look better. Not digging the checkerboard pattern on the seats. I also notice what appear to be Fuchs style wheels and matte black stone guards a la earlier 911s.

 

Jamuary ?
Hmmmmm... I wonder if the 991 won't launch until model year 2013 .
How can they explain releasing two specialty high priced cars and redesign the model line before the owner finishes break in period ?

 

And I thought the hump in the back of a cab was big...silly me. I like the black chip protector in the rear...actually thought of doing that mod...kind of old school flare.

J

 

If you want, I will take care of the RS.

 

Last version before the new model ? (i've said that on the GTS)

It is very soon the Motor Show in France, they say that there will be a surprise, I think that the speedster will be presented.

V.

 

Webspecial in German:

http://www.porsche.com/microsite/speedster/germany.aspx