Porsche Museum Celebrates Boxster's Silver Anniversary

Paying Homage

The Porsche Museum has been hard at work overhauling its exhibits in recent months, and that renovation includes a recently-opened salute to a model that has played a big role in its history and saving the brand from extinction - the Boxster. "25 Years of the Boxster" is now open, and the exhibit itself is just as intriguing as the model it's paying homage to.

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Virtual Experience

"Changed times demand a new way of thinking," Achim Stejskal, Director Heritage and Porsche Museum. said of the new exhibit. "We have already been using digital technology and showing the origins and experience of Porsche in automotive engineering through modern channels for a long time." Now, fans can also experience the exhibit online at the museum's website, too.

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Guided Tour

Online viewers can navigate through the guided tour themselves and can select which car they would like to see next from a choice of two vehicles in each case. The digital guided tour provides a bevy of information concerning Porsche vehicles featuring mid-engine technology, going back to the 1948 356 "No. 1" Roadster - the first car to be built under the Porsche name.

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Past and Present

The exhibit also shows off the original Boxster concept, which served as the basis for the production version that launched in 1996. Then there's the 550 Spyder, which was the Boxster's predecessor in terms of its mid-engine layout, as well as the car that set a trend of placing the tachometer in the center of the instrument cluster. 

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Interesting Exhibits

The Porsche Museum has also displayed the 984, a small and lightweight prototype that marked the direction of Porsche's roadster concept. Another exhibit is the Porsche 914/4 from 1975, one of the most-produced two-seater cars in history with almost 120,000 units built. And those interested in seeing the brand's water-cooled boxer engine can do so in a very interesting way with a cutaway model of the 986 Boxster S. 

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Lightweight Version

Those cars are joined by the Boxster Bergspyder, a one-seater sports car based on the third generation with the internal designation 981. This vehicle enjoys prototype status up to the present day and evokes the 909 Bergspyder from 1968 - the lightest racing car ever built by Porsche at 384 kilograms. 

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Special Edition

To mark the model's silver anniversary, Porsche has also launched the "Boxster 25 Years Edition" - an homage to the 1993 concept car. Limited to 1,250 units worldwide, the 25 Years Edition will undoubtedly represent an instant collector's item, and hopefully, mark the beginning of another quarter-century of sports car excellence.

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