Sunday, April 24, 2022

Porsche Cayman GT4, Boxster Spyder




While undoubtedly fast, the current-generation sports cars have been roundly criticised for uninspiring engines that sound like the love child of a Subaru WRX and VW Beetle. That changes in the new GT4 and Spyder, which bring a new 4.0-litre flat six capable of revving to 8000rpm, bringing the sort of sound people expect from a high-performance Porsche. While the brand鈥檚 compact Cayman and Boxster duo have been a driver鈥檚 pick from day one, Porsche has been reluctant to put a powerful motor in the mid-engine sports cars for fear of tarnishing the more expensive 911鈥檚 halo. The 911 remains faster and more powerful than 718 twins now capable of sending 309kW and 420Nm to the rear wheels through a six-speed manual transmission, hitting 100km/h in 4.4 seconds before reaching a 304km/h top speed. But the new engine should offer similar characteristics to the much more expensive 911 GT3, a model revered for its instantaneous response and soaring redline as much as its outright performance. 218,800 for the more focused Cayman GT4 coupe reaches Australia in the first quarter od 2020. Interested customers shouldn鈥檛 wait long, as Porsche鈥檚 local allocation for limited-production 鈥淕T鈥?models often sell out quickly.





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Good : great driver oriented cockpit with luxurious amenities and tech. Powerful B58 engine with wonderful mid to top end. Bad : a little off the line turbo lag, handling is a little softer than I would have expected. I would have thought. Ugly : the stock system pops and bangs off throttle, and is fun at first but a little annoying after. Verdict : great little summer highway 1 cruiser with a wonderful engine, but this is not an athletic trackstar and more of a GT convertible. Good : great driver oriented cockpit with luxurious amenities and tech. Powerful B58 engine with wonderful mid to top end. Bad : a little off the line turbo lag, handling is a little softer than I would have expected. I would have thought. Ugly : the stock system pops and bangs off throttle, and is fun at first but a little annoying after. Verdict : great little summer highway 1 cruiser with a wonderful engine, but this is not an athletic trackstar and more of a GT convertible.





Eventually they settled on taking aim at Porsche鈥檚 mid-engine Boxster and Cayman, two extremely worthy opponents. But why go with BMW in the first place? 鈥淚t wasn鈥檛 a matter of lowering costs,鈥?Tada said. At least not entirely, though that did happen. 鈥淭he Supra had to have an inline-six. It would鈥檝e taken years for Toyota to develop such an engine from scratch, he said鈥攁nd 鈥渁nother factory. How realistic would that be? And in the end, it all comes down to packaging. 鈥淎side from the Supra, there aren鈥檛 too many cars in existence now where a inline-six would better than the engines we鈥檝e already built,鈥?he said. 鈥淚n the past lots of automakers had straight sixes. You should know exactly why鈥?there are fewer of them these days, he said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a very difficult engine to package. 2s and more along the lines of grand tourers. 100,000. He didn鈥檛 want that, he said.

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