Porsche 550 Spyder
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A part of the car James Dean died in was just sold and may soon turn up in a museum.
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Porsche built a modern 550 Spyder concept, but never showed it to the worldIt seems Porsche came close to launching a modern 550 Spyder in the years following the 2008 global financial crisis.
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Race-winning 1958 Porsche 550A Spyder to be auctioned in Monterey
The season of wickedly expensive auction items is upon us. Monterey Car Week is just over a month away, which means a number of big ticket items are being buffed and shined for their time under the bright lights of the auction block. One to keep an eye on will be this 1958 Porsche 550A Spyder...
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More Details On The Rumored Porsche 718 Sports Car
Porsche is thought to be working on two new models to serve as bookends for the automaker’s sports car lineup once the current 918 Spyder flagship is out of production. One will be an eight-cylinder supercar to rival the likes of the Ferrari 458 Italia and McLaren 650S and the other will be a...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Vintech To Debut Porsche 550 Tribute At Pebble Beach
While most car enthusiasts know the Porsche 550 in its Spyder, or open-top, form, Porsche also produced a limited number of 550 Coupes, primarily for competition in endurance racing events. As stunning as the Porsche 550 Spyders are, we actually prefer the lines of the 550 Coupes. Apparently...
Kurt Ernst -
Porsche CEO Mueller: Sub-Boxster 550 Spyder Still On The Table
As one of the great on-again, off-again projects of recent years at Porsche, the sub-Boxster roadster, referred to internally as the 550--after the historic 550 Spyder--has at times straddled the cusp of both reality and cancellation. In a way, it continues to--but we recently sat down with...
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We've been hearing rumors and ruminations on the upcoming smaller Porsche roadster, dubbed tentatively the 550 after its historical inspiration, for what seems like years now (because it has been). This week, there is some equally tentative confirmation that the four-cylinder boxer engine that will power it is now under development within the walls of Weissach. Engineering a four-cylinder version of Porsche's legendary boxer engine might not seem such a hard task--even without the decades of previous four-cylinders to draw on, you could simply lop a couple of cylinders off the existing sixes...
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Audi, Porsche And Volkswagen Roadsters Back On The Table: Report
It’s been a while since we last heard about the trio of new roadster models being developed at Volkswagen Group brands Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen, though at one point last month there were claims that Audi’s version of the lightweight sports car had been canceled. Now, just a few...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Porsche Type 64, 550 Le Mans on display in Atlanta
The first car that Porsche ever built, before it was even Porsche, was the Type 64, also known as the VW Aerocoupe. The car is a highly streamlined racer developed out of a desire to dominate the Berlin-Rome long-distance race, and the only pre-war Porsche. And it's on display right now in...
Nelson Ireson
