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Stola GTS

Boxster coupe earns its stripes

We're used to being the first to drive the most exciting motors in the world, but it's not often we get a go behind the wheel before the car's creator takes a spin!

By Matt Davis

April 2003

We're used to being the first to drive the most exciting motors in the world, but it's not often we get a go behind the wheel before the car's creator takes a spin!

But the 'father' of the GTS, Alfredo Stola, didn't get a chance to drive this car before it went off to the Geneva Motor Show, and we were banging on his door the moment it returned. Yet still he just shrugged and gave us the keys.

The Boxster S-based motor was inspired by coachbuilder Stola's childhood memories of Gulf-sponsored Le Mans racers, and was created to show off the talents of his prototype-building business. The car also fuels speculation that perhaps Stola is involved in the development of the much-rumoured official Porsche Boxster coup

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FIRST OPINION

    With stunning styling and a 480bhp engine, the Stola GTS is as astonishing to drive as it is to look at, and could point the way to a future Boxster tin-top from Porsche itself. The twin-turbo engine is unlikely ever to see production, though - after all, who'd bother with a 911 if they could have this instead?
 

AT A GLANCE

    Geneva show star is produced by Turin coachbuilder Stola
    Inspired by Sixties' Le Mans cars
     
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