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Porsche toyed with recreating the 550 RS Spyder.
If there is one Porsche that fans of the German marque would dearly like to see a return to the road, it’s the 550 RS Spyder. The 1954 roadster that is forever associated with motor racing and the death of James Dean was small, feisty and fast.
Clear design references include a diminutive windshield, the radiator grilles above the mid-mounted engine, and the subtle rear fins. The carbon roll bar is both unusual for its modernist form and at one with the overall design, which will, no doubt, have Porsche air-cooled fans writing petitions to their dealers.
The 551 Vision Spyder was built in 2019 but kept a secret until its unveiling this week. Billed as a 21st-century reimagining of the 1954 machine that made Porsche’s name, in fact, it’s really a homage to one particular car, James Dean’s Little Bastard, wearing the race number 131 (Dean’s was 130) and the licence tag “Little Rebel”.

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