What you’re looking at is the Porsche Boxster
Bergspyder, created by the German car manufacturer in 2015 but not detailed by
Porsche until now. Porsche took inspiration from the 1968 909 Bergspyder in creating
this one-off Boxster. The 1968 car was a single-seater built specifically for
hillclimb events and weighed just 384 kg. It also had an
eye-catching white and green livery and a tiny windshield in front of the
driver.
The Boxster Bergspyder is a modern interpretation of
the original car and is drastically different from any other Boxster variant to
come before it. First and foremost, the area where you’d typically expect to
find a passenger seat has been covered meaning the Bergspyder is a
single-seater, just like the original. Additionally, the car includes a tiny
wraparound windshield and a rear-view mirror just off center from where a
dashboard would ordinarily be found.
Much like the 909, the Boxster includes a hoop
directly behind the head of the driver and a pair of voluptuous buttresses.
Porsche also fitted the car with black wheels and green calipers. Sitting under the skin of the
Boxster Bergspyder is the same six-cylinder as the Cayman GT4 pumping out 1099
kg and allowing the speedster to hit 100 km/h in a touch
over 4 seconds.
The Boxster is considered to be quite a small car
nowadays but it absolutely dwarfs the 909. Porsche allegedly thought about
bringing the Boxster Bergspyder into production but decided against it over
concerns about how difficult it could be to register in some countries.
