Lol this whole thread...

Decals, emblems cheap. Call it whatever you want and put the graphics on.

Years ago when looking for a 987.2 Spyder ran across a Boxster Spyder S. Had a big red S on the back after Boxster Spyder. I asked and he said, in his opinion, that Boxster Spyder was just not special enough so he added the S script emblem emblem.

 

LMFAOOOO amazing.

His logic is undeniable

 

Since it already has one number (718) that doesn't mean much to anyone, when someone asks I tell them I have a Porsche Spyder. I think that sounds the best.

If they confuse it with the 918 Spyder and think I'm driving a $1m plus car, oh well.

 

brevity is the soul of wit!

 

You are both right. In fact it used to be called the Boxster Spyder. Under current nomenclature, it should be the 718 GT4 and 718 Spyder. Now that would make sense. On the rear trunk lid, both cars should use the 718 designation, or neither of them should.

 

Porsche has lost all credibility with how they brand and what they use as the rear emblem...all rules are thrown out the window now

 

agree!

 

Or they could have just called it the Boxster GT4 to be consistent, but I think the plain Spyder moniker fits better. And I do think that the GT designation should be reserved for hard top cars that (conceivably) are actually raced.

Porsche folks know what a Speedster is and what a Spyder is, and the rest of the world probably doesn't even get what the GT designation means anyway.

 

I'm ok with 718 Spyder, in fact I would have been happier if they had just designated it as "Spyder"... better than my '15 which was

 

Porsche’s naming is a bit strange sometimes from generation to generation. The whole 718 thing was a bit silly to me, but I could get their logic if they wanted to build greater parity with their naming strategy for 911. So if they were consistent, it should look like this:

718 Boxster
718 Boxster T
718 Boxster S
718 Boxster GTS
718 Cayman
718 Cayman T
718 Cayman S
718 Cayman GTS
718 Spyder
718 GT4

to run in parallel to:

911 Carrera
911 Carrera Cabriolet
911 Carrera T
...(+ variants)
911 Targa 4
...(+ variants)
911 Turbo
911 Turbo Cabriolet
...(+ variants)
911 Speedster
911 GT3
911 GT3 RS
911 GT2 RS

Which is pretty close to what they have for the 718 line, except they they threw it off with the name 718 Cayman GT4. It’s the one outlier that breaks from trend. 718 Spyder is perfect.

But Porsche really doesn’t have a good system for this.

Cayman R
911 GT3R
911R

...all wildly different releases with no consistency for the use of the “R” moniker.

 

Part of it is the rear badging. Why did they omit the "718" on the GT4 and include it on the Spyder?

 

I don’t mind the omission on the GT4, as it’s consistent with the GT3. But they didn’t put “911” on the badging of the Speedster, so they shouldn’t have included it with the 718 Spyder.

Does no one check these things at Porsche? Or maybe they just don’t care.

 

Perhaps it's because there's only one line of Speedsters, whereas the 718 Spyder needs to be distinguished from the 918 Spyder, and the 918 Spyder had the full "918 Spyder" written on the back, so the 718 Spyder needs to say "718 Spyder" for consistency with the 918's badging.

I agree the GT4 should have just been called the 718 GT4 rather than 718 Cayman GT4 (akin to 911 GT3 rather than 911 Carrera GT3).

 

I ordered my 2021 Spyder with the model delete, and when it gets here I am putting on the black 987 Spyder emblem - problem solved.

 

Or perhaps “718 Boxster Spyder GT4 4.0.” That would be epic.