Stola GTS

The Stola GTS was a coupe prototype that the Turin firm Stola showed at the 73rd Geneva Motor Show in 2003. Stola took a Porsche Boxster and reworked it in the manner of the old Turin coachbuilders, who turned standard production cars into custom ones: the exterior and aerodynamics were redrawn, the interior, tunnel, instrument panel and floor were modified, and the brakes and suspension were upgraded. The engine was enlarged to 3600 cc and fitted with turbochargers, for about 480 hp. The front and rear spoilers and the blue and orange livery were meant to recall the endurance racing cars of the 1970s. Stola did the work itself and went outside only for the styling, and it said it would build the coupe on request in a limited run of no more than three cars. The car carried only the inscription Stola GTS rather than the badge of the maker whose car it started from.