Porsche fanatics have been going back and forth for years
over which of its products makes the best sports car: 911 or Cayman. Despite
years of frankly necessary performance bracketing between the two, Porsche has
unleashed a new high-performance Cayman – the
GT4 – and it’s a belter.
It knicks the 3.8-liter flat-six engine from the 911 Carrera
S, a significant amount of chassis components from the very
hardcore 911 GT3, and can claim a heady 7 minute 40 second lap time around
the Nurburgring’s North Loop. Porsche took a camera crew to the ‘Ring to
highlight its new prizefighter – take a look.
Somewhere, there’s a young 911 fan tearing down his bedroom
wall poster and replacing it with one of these. It’s numbers are quite
staggering. The Cayman GT4 packs 385 horsepower, sprints to 60 mph in just 4.2
seconds, and its Nurburgring lap time matches that of the 2011
911 GT3.
But its most important figure might just be its price. The
Cayman GT4 starts at $84,600, which is by no means cheap, but around $14,000
less than the engine-sharing 911 Carrera S and a whopping $46,000 less than the
chassis-donating 911 GT3. If your main objective is to go to work quickly on
the weekdays and get ’round a track even faster on the weekends, is there a
better bargain than this?
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