For three of the four generations of the Porsche Boxster, Porsche has offered the car as a special edition “Spyder” model. This variant was never offered for the first generation 986 Boxster ...

Almost three decades after the launch of the 986-era Porsche Boxster, they’re under secondhand scrutiny like never before. There’s the looming arrival of an electric Boxster for one thing ...

Three years earlier at the Detroit show, Porsche’s concept for an affordable ... To get both the Boxster (986) and the all-new 911 (996) over the line required a sharing of significant parts ...

But no less potent. Truth is, the 986 Boxster didn’t just save Porsche; it made it. And having spent decent time in this example, it’s not hard to see why. “Keep your speed up and the ...

About six months ago, I decided to buy a Porsche Boxster ... is an absurd amount of information on the 986 generation (that’s 1997 to 2004) Boxster. So, here it is, in the hopes that someone ...

The convertible, and later-arriving hardtop, have served as Porsche’s entry-level models since the 986-generation Boxster debuted nearly 30 years ago. Where the first Boxster built on the 914 ...

As a result, Shimie Moore, the owner of Vale Automotive in Ireland, decided to create a GT1 body kit conversion for the first-gen (986) Porsche Boxster. Moore had been toying with the idea of ...

Of course, that’s not a genuine model and instead, the car started out life as a 986-generation Porsche Boxster before being overhauled by Brian Hale of DNA Automotive. In transforming the ...

Three years earlier at the Detroit show, Porsche’s concept for an affordable ... To get both the Boxster (986) and the all-new 911 (996) over the line required a sharing of significant parts ...