Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0: A sports car with a built-in protective instinct

Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 sport Car

The Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 has nothing more to know (for now) than the Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0. On the race track it becomes fast, emotional - and heroic.

You can hear him in the hotel. Like us, the Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 is also a guest in Estoril - the race track that carries the music of its visitors to the breakfast buffet. The label of this Zuffenhausen: the number at the end of the name.(Also interesting: Aston Martin releases two James Bond special models)

Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 in test: The better 911?

Anyone sitting on a race track in a sports car can easily ignore the issue of comfort. The seats must be comfortable, but should primarily hold the driver when it comes to high-speed corners. Infotainment, navigation or similar things are as superfluous as snow chains on the front wheels of a rear-wheel drive vehicle. You turn the ignition key, accelerate - and it sounds like the memory of the last Tour with a six-cylinder boxer Porsche.

The sports exhaust system is standard on the Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0, the engine rotates up to 7,800 rpm, optionally the sports suspension can be ordered.
The Zuffenhausener is factory-installed on 20-inch wheels, the brake calipers are painted red, and ceramic brakes can be fitted on request. 

The signs are not good: it is raining, wet and slippery - a test for tyres and wipers. Ahead a Carrera 2 rolls over the course. Ideal lines are no natural constants, grip always precedes line and our Cayman adheres cleanly to the rules. It is the typical Porsche: precise, emotional, handy and, as a mid-engine athlete, always one tick better balanced than a car with a front or rear engine. Which is why there are people who consider the Cayman to be the better sports car than the 911. However, we are not entirely on board - after all, the most powerful Porsche 911 has recently convinced us emphatically of the opposite.

The 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 proves its nanny qualities on the race track

Porsche 718 Cayman Specs

The slope dries down slowly, the Carrera ahead becomes noticeably faster and our GTS rolls up our sleeves.It’s time for more speed. Time to drive with the power of both cylinder banks. Because yes after power call-up one of the two also stops a nap - cylinder shutdown is called this function. A very fine kind of engine control, emotional, almost human, so we let two benches play along, the gas foot sinks down to asphalt. There are curves songs sung.

The Cayman is 20 millimetres lower than the Cayman S, is equipped with the stability program and the mechanical rear axle lock is wide awake. You miss the right braking point or the rear wants more than the rest of the car? Before the driver can even think about countermeasures, the technology has caught the tail again. This is not special, but the speed, accuracy and tranquility with which this happens is remarkable. A lightning-fast nanny with the reaction time of Spiderman - just without a costume.