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50 YEARS OF THE SPYDER; Porsche celebrates the golden anniversary of the 550.(News)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
]] To celebrate 50 years of the 550, and to help salvage plunging Boxster sales, Porsche is offering a special edition of the Boxster S called, logically, "The Boxster S Special Edition.'' Porsche also calls it the "550 Spyder Boxster S Special Edition,'' "50 Years of the 550 Spyder Boxster S'' and "this very special Boxster S.'' Take your pick. Just tell your Porsche dealer any of the above names and you can get one of only 1953 of them, 500 of those bound for the United States.
Yes, that's 1953, same year the 550 debuted at the Paris motor show. Does that make this 2004 model the 51st anniversary edition? No, says Porsche. 1954 was the year the car made its racing debut, taking first in class and third overall in the final running of La Carrera Panamericana, a finish that is still marked today by the "Carrera'' badge on many of the best Porsches.
This commemorative 2004 model comes with 264 hp, six more than the Boxster S (thanks to tuning of the computer chip). It also has a shorter-throw shifter in the manual, unique exhaust, 10-mm-lower suspension with five-mm-wider track, xenon headlights and a host of commemorative cosmetic and trim touches highlighted by gleaming silver metallic paint just like on the Carrera GT.
We drove one on a Porsche-sponsored, morbidly themed run to the site of James Dean's crash in the central California hills (yipee!). Dean was driving a 550 at the time. Turns out Dean is still gone, but we liked the Boxster.
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Source: HighBeam Research, 50 YEARS OF THE SPYDER; Porsche celebrates the golden anniversary of...