Porsche Cayman GT4 Review - The 2016 Porsche Cayman GT4 is a hard auto to clarify, primarily on the grounds that the general Cayman, Cayman S and GTS are now a best's portion taking care of autos for the cash.
To consider the contrast between, well, any Cayman and the GT4 is similar to contrasting your secondary school smash with Jennifer Lawrence: you'd be content with either, however… you know what I mean?
Around the quick paced and energetic track that is Philip Island, we experienced the whole Cayman extent, winding up in a $189,900 GT4 at the very end to figure out exactly how great the most recent auto from Porsche's motorsport division is.
Fueled by the now superseded yet at the same time immense Carrera S 3.8-liter six-chamber motor (with diverse affectation complex and injectors) that creates 283kW of force and 420Nm of torque, the GT4 can do 0-100km/h in 4.4 seconds.
In a further 10.1 seconds, it will hit 200km/h.
The auto is the first street going mid-engined auto from Porsche to wear a GT motorsport identification.
That is truly saying something, and it's a help of certainty for how far the second-era Cayman has come following the first hit the business sector in 2006.
The GT4 is accessible with a six-speed manual gearbox just and, while it's around 0.1 of a second slower to 100km/h than the Carrera S, it's very nearly in an alternate association regarding the matter of mechanical hold.
While Porsche is determined that it's not only an accumulation of irregular bits stuck together, the GT4 surely imparts a sensible number of parts to the saint GT3 auto, for example, a front's lot end as far as suspension and brakes, and also the controlling and ABS frameworks.
This is incredible news, in light of the fact that the GT3 is an astounding machine. In any case, there's something else entirely to the Cayman GT4 that is one of a kind to itself than there isn't.
Its manual-just accessibility surely hasn't prevented any purchasers either, of which there are as of now more than 140 in Australia (about 50 percent more than the current Australian distribution).
Porsche says the GT4 will engage those that need the execution of a 911 however not as a matter of course a 911 itself.
All things considered, how about we be straight to the point for a brief moment, of all the 911s circling, the symbol maybe no more draws the eyes of those it looks for. In the interim, the Cayman GT4 sticks out like Bruce Lee in an ocean of Steven Seagals.
Much like the late Lee, what it needs in sheer muscle, it compensates for in procedure.
Then again, for this situation, mechanical hold and progress… and saying this doesn't imply that the 911 is currently a congested 63 year-old at the very end of its profession, just that the GT4 feels more honed and more lively than its nearly evaluated enormous sibling.
Coming hard out of Siberia at Phillip Island race track and not needing to back off, as we'd needed to in the three lesser Caymans before it, was a disclosure.
The GT4 is basically the kind of auto you can take straight to a course and set unimaginably quick lap times, in a steady progression (the gigantic 380mm front brakes can take a pounding).
The times are picked up not in inside and out increasing speed down the straights, but rather the pace it can serenely help through the corners.
The gearbox is super smooth and will blip the throttle and do an impeccable rev-match on the downshifts, making the absence of a PDK gearbox very nearly a positive. We say "just about" in light of the fact that, at last, you'll be quicker in a PDK form, yet that doesn't exist.
Seating position is amazing and the controlling's alteration haggle positions made it simple for us to fit in and get going. You don't have to heel-n-toe, however you can on the off chance that you need to.
The Cayman has for long been touted as more powerfully skilled than its greater 911 sibling, yet in no other variation is that more clear than a GT4.
For about $200,000 – a great deal not as much as a Carrera S – the GT4 gives rush levels on a course that you'll just involvement in either a GT3 or a GT3 RS.
Obviously, it does not have the two extra seats and, well, it's not a 911, so in case you're a traditionalist, it's not a back engined symbol. Be that as it may, we anticipate it will rapidly come to be viewed as the best taking care of street auto for under $200,000, Porsche or something else.
We haven't had an opportunity to drive it out and about yet, however most would agree that its gifts are completely squandered being punted in activity.
Thankfully, however, what makes the ordinary Cayman a decent every day, likewise appears to apply to the GT4, with regards to commotion, vibration and cruelty levels and maybe even broad ride solace – though we will have to test that separately.
To consider the contrast between, well, any Cayman and the GT4 is similar to contrasting your secondary school smash with Jennifer Lawrence: you'd be content with either, however… you know what I mean?
Around the quick paced and energetic track that is Philip Island, we experienced the whole Cayman extent, winding up in a $189,900 GT4 at the very end to figure out exactly how great the most recent auto from Porsche's motorsport division is.
Fueled by the now superseded yet at the same time immense Carrera S 3.8-liter six-chamber motor (with diverse affectation complex and injectors) that creates 283kW of force and 420Nm of torque, the GT4 can do 0-100km/h in 4.4 seconds.
In a further 10.1 seconds, it will hit 200km/h.
The auto is the first street going mid-engined auto from Porsche to wear a GT motorsport identification.
That is truly saying something, and it's a help of certainty for how far the second-era Cayman has come following the first hit the business sector in 2006.
The GT4 is accessible with a six-speed manual gearbox just and, while it's around 0.1 of a second slower to 100km/h than the Carrera S, it's very nearly in an alternate association regarding the matter of mechanical hold.
While Porsche is determined that it's not only an accumulation of irregular bits stuck together, the GT4 surely imparts a sensible number of parts to the saint GT3 auto, for example, a front's lot end as far as suspension and brakes, and also the controlling and ABS frameworks.
This is incredible news, in light of the fact that the GT3 is an astounding machine. In any case, there's something else entirely to the Cayman GT4 that is one of a kind to itself than there isn't.
Its manual-just accessibility surely hasn't prevented any purchasers either, of which there are as of now more than 140 in Australia (about 50 percent more than the current Australian distribution).
Porsche says the GT4 will engage those that need the execution of a 911 however not as a matter of course a 911 itself.
All things considered, how about we be straight to the point for a brief moment, of all the 911s circling, the symbol maybe no more draws the eyes of those it looks for. In the interim, the Cayman GT4 sticks out like Bruce Lee in an ocean of Steven Seagals.
Much like the late Lee, what it needs in sheer muscle, it compensates for in procedure.
Then again, for this situation, mechanical hold and progress… and saying this doesn't imply that the 911 is currently a congested 63 year-old at the very end of its profession, just that the GT4 feels more honed and more lively than its nearly evaluated enormous sibling.
Coming hard out of Siberia at Phillip Island race track and not needing to back off, as we'd needed to in the three lesser Caymans before it, was a disclosure.
The GT4 is basically the kind of auto you can take straight to a course and set unimaginably quick lap times, in a steady progression (the gigantic 380mm front brakes can take a pounding).
The times are picked up not in inside and out increasing speed down the straights, but rather the pace it can serenely help through the corners.
The gearbox is super smooth and will blip the throttle and do an impeccable rev-match on the downshifts, making the absence of a PDK gearbox very nearly a positive. We say "just about" in light of the fact that, at last, you'll be quicker in a PDK form, yet that doesn't exist.
Seating position is amazing and the controlling's alteration haggle positions made it simple for us to fit in and get going. You don't have to heel-n-toe, however you can on the off chance that you need to.
The Cayman has for long been touted as more powerfully skilled than its greater 911 sibling, yet in no other variation is that more clear than a GT4.
For about $200,000 – a great deal not as much as a Carrera S – the GT4 gives rush levels on a course that you'll just involvement in either a GT3 or a GT3 RS.
Obviously, it does not have the two extra seats and, well, it's not a 911, so in case you're a traditionalist, it's not a back engined symbol. Be that as it may, we anticipate it will rapidly come to be viewed as the best taking care of street auto for under $200,000, Porsche or something else.
We haven't had an opportunity to drive it out and about yet, however most would agree that its gifts are completely squandered being punted in activity.
Thankfully, however, what makes the ordinary Cayman a decent every day, likewise appears to apply to the GT4, with regards to commotion, vibration and cruelty levels and maybe even broad ride solace – though we will have to test that separately.
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