According to the listing, the Carrera GT conversion doesn’t come with any performance upgrades.So, this faux supercar still relies on the 3.2-liter six-cylinder engine from the Porsche Boxster S ...

2006 Ruf Boxster 3.8S X51 Conversion: Nothing Alien About Ruf X51. ... a 650-hp turbocharged rendition of the 997 that can out-sprint a Carrera GT (“650-hp Daily Driver,” May 8).

The last Boxster Spyder (with 370 horsepower) was quoted for a 0-60 time of 4.3 seconds and top out at 180 mph. (That was just one tick and three mph slower than the more potent Cayman GT4.) ...

If the 2004-2007 Porsche Carrera GT was the last legendary supercar of the mostly analog era, the Gemballa Mirage GT was that era’s hangover, the result of taking a good thing just a little bit ...

And that's kind of the point with the Porsche Boxster RS 60 Spyder as well. ... Carrera red or dark grey ... which equates to a whopping $78,532 stateside, given current conversion rates.

List price, base Porsche Carrera GT. est $440,000 . Price as tested. est $740,538 . Curb weight. est 3550 lb . Engine. ... The conversion for the Gemballa Mirage GT is about $300,000 ...

Yet as soon as the Carrera GT is moving, it starts to feel far more normal. It might have been hyped as a road-going racer, but I found it as easy to drive as any other Porsche.

The Boxster’s 3.2-liter engine falls short of the Carrera GT’s 5.7-liter V10. Back in the 2000s, the Carrera GT was the undisputed flagship of the Porsche brand, a competitor to the Ferrari Enzo.