The Porsche 550 Spyder is one of the most desirable and ... exterior is the 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder Boxer engine from a Subaru WRX that’s been modified to deliver 350 hp on pump ...

Apart from being nearly a decade older, mid-engine with a flat-four, and made of aluminum instead of steel and fiberglass, the Porsche 550 Spyder is just like an original Lotus Elan in spirit.

the 550 Spyder had to prove its worth and that came dramatically in the 1954 Carrera Panamericana in Mexico. Porsche prepped a pair of 550s with a 117-bhp version of Fuhrmann's engine. Driven by ...

I'd keep my real Spyder in the Porsche museum ... We imagine the VS 550-S weighs about the same as the original Porsche 550, but the engine produces just under twice the horsepower.

Later, the Boxster Spyder models kept the 550's idea of a stripped-down ... almost resembles the blank front end of Porsche'sothermid-engine lightweight, the 914.) In fact, Porsche says it ...

Prior to the 550 Spyder, Porsche had stuck to building road cars ... Powered by a midship-mounted flat-four engine that puts out about 110 horsepower from just 1.5 liters of displacement, the ...

Such an engine would be difficult to reproduce ... you could buy a fleet of 200 Beck Spyders for the cost of the most expensive Porsche 550 Spyder ever sold at auction. Not a bad deal at all.

The object of our collective automotive desires in this story is a Thunder Ranch 550A-6 Spyder ... that this 550 is a widebody to accommodate a Porsche six-cylinder 911 or 914-6 engine.

The 2020 Porsche 718 Spyder is the real deal, an open-top, mid-engine sports car that channels the spirit of the legendary race-bred 550 Spyder and 718 RS 60 roadsters. Sure, Porsche has produced ...