Thanks to a new bank of spy shots showing the Boxster with its production lights for the first time, we’re a little but closer to figuring out how the finished sports car might look. The images show the Boxster with Porsche’s latest style of quad-LED DRLs at the front, which could mean it’s fitted with the company’s new matrix LED lamp units. Revealed late last year, the tech can project a beam of light up to 600 m, and that’s sure to be handy on late-night country road blasts when you don’t want to end up with a deer through your windshield.
This prototype also looks to be fitted with production tail lights, which take the form of narrow LED strips that wrap around each rear quarter panel. But given that Porsche just unveiled the GT3 R Rennsport with a full-width wraparound LED light bar, and already fits one to the 718 Cayman GT4 E-Performance electric racer, we suspect the Boxster will feature something very similar but is hiding the central portion with disguise on this prototype.
Other disguise elements include the fake
center-exhaust tailpipe and cladding on the bumper and body sides that prevent
us from seeing the final details of the bodywork. We can’t, for instance, see
whether Porsche has dispensed with the Boxster’s traditional side vents since
it won’t need them for the EV powertrain. Porsche is expected to offer the new
Boxster – and its hardtop Cayman brother – with a choice of battery sizes and
power outputs. Base cars will have a single motor at the rear driving the rear
wheels, but the more expensive, more powerful dual-motor variants will give the
Boxster and Cayman all-wheel drive for the first time.
