![]() Sure, it would have been nice to have a manual option, but the PDK is such a great gearbox and suits the GT4 RS motor so well, it’s hard not to have fun, especially since you get a proper lever to rock back and forward to swap gears as an alternative to the paddles. And I absolutely want to kiss whoever put pen to paper to make it happen.Įqually snappy are the changes from the mandatory PDK paddle-shift transmission, both up and down through the ratios. It’s mind blowing that something that sounds as wild as the GT4 RS got signed off. I mean, it can’t really be this loud, this raw, can it? Sure, you might come across a crazy car modified by the aftermarket with a custom inlet that sounds brutal, but we’re talking here about a massive, sensible OEM that sells 300,000 cars a year and has just hit the stock market. No kidding, the first time you crack the throttle open on a GT4 RS, you’ll swear the car is broken. The regular GT4 sounds pretty fruity, but for the RS Porsche didn’t only drop in the GT3’s engine but opted to draw air for the flat-six through the area that is normally occupied by rear-quarter windows, and down into an airbox located inside the cabin right behind your head. Loud exhausts are exciting, but when I think of some of the best cars noises I’ve experienced form the driver’s seat over the years, it’s been the ones with the great induction sound that have stayed with me: the E46 BMW M3 CSL and its carbon airbox, the McLaren F1 yeah, even the ratty 1380cc Mini I had a as a kid with a big Weber 45 carb poking through the dashboard into passenger space.Īnd now the 718 Cayman GT4 RS. Not even the 911 GT3 makes a noise like the Cayman GT4 RS. Most of all though, it doesn’t have the noise. ![]() But it doesn’t have the RS’s trick suspension components, its super-short gearing and it doesn’t come with the GT3 motor, it’s 4.0-liter six being derived from the regular 911’s engine and delivering 79 fewer horses and running out of revs at 8,000 rpm. Yeah, what about the regular GT4? It’s a great car in its own right, costs a massive $42,600 less than the RS and can be ordered with a manual box. Why does it cost 40 percent more than a GT4? It also has a manual transmission option denied GT4 RS buyers because Porsche couldn’t make the 911’s box fit in the Cayman’s shell, and the regular GT4’s manual had the wrong ratios and couldn’t hack the crazy 9,000 rpm redline. The base 911 GT3 might not have those legendary RS letters after its name, but it’s a 911 and a GT3, and that means it carries huge kudos. And you might have also figured out that for not much more than a stock GT4 RS, or for the same money as one plus some of the fancy options many owners will add, you could have a 911 GT3 ($169,700 / £135,700). But you might also think it seems expensive in comparison with the regular Cayman GT4 ($106,500 / £81,700). You might look at it and think that it appears great value for an RS Porsche, given that the new 911 GT3 RS costs a hefty $223,800 / £178,500. The Cayman GT4 RS costs $149,100 / £113,700 and there are a couple of ways of handling that bit if info.
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