Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS - The Definitive Porsche Cynic's Review

[Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] hello everybody today this the Porsche Cayman gt4rs easily one of the most anticipated sports cars of the current decade and one that is so special many including myself were convinced that Porsche would never actually make it but they have and it's here however there is one tiny problem you see this car has arrived with lofty expectations on account of it being the latest product from Porsche's GT Department led by Andreas proninger the man with the Midas touch and of late they've been branching out a little bit in fact I've only just handed back a KN turbo GT a 4x4 built by the GT department and though that should have been a very silly idea all round and in many ways is it was also brilliant so if they can make a two and a quarter ton SUV fun to drive then crafting something brilliant from a Cayman should be something they can do in their sleep but there is a problem you see though historically I've always had a fondness for the Cayman the 718 generation has on the whole left me fairly cold but with this car it certainly has all the ingredients for True greatness so there really is nowhere to hide and if anyone can get this right it's the GT department and I really hope that they have because this truly is the last chance alone for the Cayman which in not too long is going to be replaced with an all-electric variant meaning that this is to be the first the last and the only petrol-powered Caiman gt4rs there is no time for a second chance and therefore this is a car I can't afford to give No Quarter today I shall be judge JM and executioner did you hear that car I am the law [Music] all right [Music] before I take this car out and render judgment I need to explain to you why it's not just a very special car but also genuinely unique and to do that I need to tell you a story one that will be a little bit of bridge because it covers quite a time span and likely in a few places inaccurate but hopefully you'll get the gist it's called one man and in many interesting places you can insert a hammer a long time ago there was a primordial ooze and eventually something crawled out of it a few years later a group of men presumably who smoked a lot and with facial hair got together and invented the 911. they saw it and they said that it was good and they would wouldn't they because they had invented it and they were men now I cannot say exactly what it was that they had been smoking but evidently one of them at least had thought it was a good idea to put the engine in the back of their sports car presumably nobody saw fault with this because their last car the 356 also had the engine in the back and that presumably was because the car before that they had a hand in also had the engine in the back that being the beetle you may have heard of it however that was a car designed to be economical and the reason the engine went in the back was because at the time it was an economical and clever way to do things but in a sports car not so much the net result was that the early 911 in particular had some unusual and undesirable handling characteristics a reputation which haunted to this very day now most Ordinary People and I would wager most women would look at that and go hmm we've made a mistake here let's move that engine forward into the middle where it probably should be something that by the late 1960s other manufacturers were already doing but no these men with their funny facial hair and presumably even funnier cigarettes decided that uh nine that is good as it is there must be something else wrong with the car not basic physics so for the next 60 years and counting they continue to try and engineer around this fairly fundamental flaw that none of them could see and to the point that today a 911 is actually a fabulous handling thing but I'm getting ahead of myself not long after the introduction of the 911 Porsche realized they needed a new entry-level model to replace the 356 which was in of itself getting quite old they brought out the 914 and it had amazing to believe I know an engine in the middle but porschesi are not very good parents they have a favorite and its name is 911. so at all points during the 914's life they made sure it could never quite nip at the 911's heels in too significant away to take over from the 914 they had the 924 which conveniently they had actually been developing for VW as an affordable entry-level sports car but VW decided they didn't want it Porsche then bought the rights to the car they had already been developing and started building that more interestingly alongside this they also introduced another car also with the engine in the front this was the 928 but unlike the 924 it was designed to sit above the 911 in the model range having two more cylinders av-8 more leather more features more luxury more Tech and was some theorized designed to replace the 911 entirely unfortunately come the 1980s and it seems like Stockholm syndrome had truly set in because regardless of the fact Posh offered in some ways a better car for both less and more money than the 911 people kept buying the 911. they even started buying 911 turbos which had gained a reputation for being even scarier than their forebears yet still sold Porsche then realized this was a bit of a problem they'd created a monster and one that they weren't going to be able to get rid of they even commissioned a study to see just how far they could take the 911 platform it was called the 959 and the answer was quite a way actually so come the mid-1990s and the two cars that were axed were the 94 successor the 968 and the 928 leaving once again the 911 as the only car in the Porsche lineup but by this stage it had its air-cooled engine were looking a little bit old and creaky despite a couple of facelifts so in the lay late 1990s the Porsche lineup was rejuvenated and we saw the introduction of not just a new water-cooled 911 the 996 but also the radical new Boxster taking on from the 968 this was in many ways a spiritual successor to the 914 because although it shed nearly all of its components with the 911 from the doors forward the engine at the back was architecturally similar to the 911 but not in the rear it was in the middle and the moment this car was announced a lot of people looked at it and went um that's a car that's probably going to be dynamically quite a bit better to drive than the 911 and sure enough the Boxster found many fans though not amongst 911 owners who are very upset that their expensive Porsche kept getting mistaken for the much cheaper one on account of the fact that at the front it was the same so to try and quell this potential Uprising throughout the entirety of its life the Boxster fabulous though it was was never allowed to get too close to the specification and performance of its bigger brother than 911 and where that car got many special edition versions of the turbo the GT3 GT3 RS the Boxster stayed as simply Boxster and Boxster S no special editions for you and this people thought was how it was going to be forever because that was how it always had been then come the end of that cast production run and its replacement was due the 987 but along with this came a rumor that Porsche were going to be making a coupe version of the Boxster and this once again set people thinking going hmm well now with a roof on the car it will be even stiffer therefore even better dynamically again and this really will be a car that should be faster and more exciting than the old 911 but when that car did arrive called now the Cayman once again a little Porsche had just snipped its wings a little bit to make sure it didn't pester Big Brother the Cayman was a very curious character because when it launched it cost more than the Boxster and in Carland having the Coupe cost more than the convertible is all backwards and stuff so to justify that price increase it had just a little bit more power but disappointingly Porsche once again made sure it didn't have quite as much power as a regular 911 nor did it have a limited slip differential or in some cases even the option of one and so everyone who drove it said this is a fabulous car brilliant really dynamically superior to the 911 but just lacking the Firepower that it really deserves and we all stood there and went oh well close but no cigar once again from Porsche then they said that they were going to do a Cayman R and we all got a little bit excited because we thought ah finally they might actually be doing it is this a Cayman with the power of a 911 because that'll be something truly special then it arrived and it was a Cayman S with a few extra options a token amount more power and a slightly smaller fuel tank to fool everybody into thinking that it was lighter and so we all stood there going you know what we should blame ourselves really we were Silly for thinking that Porsche were ever going to do it clearly the Cayman is never going to be allowed even close to the 911. time went on a few other variants came out but again nothing ever quite that good on comes the 981 generation Cayman and Boxster the new variant and then we hear a story about something that turned into the Cayman GT4 and this is where things got really exciting because Porsche went further than any of us could have dared dream not only were they at long last building a car with proper 911 power it was also going to be a GT the baby brother to the GT3 and when it landed it did so with a fairly significant Fanfare but still some were disappointed because though it had the front suspension from a GT3 what it did not have was a real GT engine instead it had a slightly detuned version of that you'd find in a regular Carrera S which was of course a lot more than many Cayman owners have been used to but still in the eyes of many not enough and once again people were stood there going ah so close and yet so far here was proof material that the car had Oodles of potential and yet you knew you got that feeling the Porsche was still very very wary of the Cayman stepping on the 911's toes to the extent that if you look at the specs for a Cayman GT4 and a regular 911 there's quite a gulf between them even though in the real world we all knew that the two cars were pretty much matched and this was a shame but we thought this was how things were to always be then a big blow with the arrival of the 718 generation of Cayman and Boxster the next version because out went the naturally aspirated six cylinders for the whole range and in came a series of four-cylinder turbo engines all those petrol heads breathed out aside and went oh once again by many a petrol head this was seen solely as an attempt to create a little bit of distance between the entry-level box to Cayman and the 911 the gold standard but then we heard there was to be a new GT4 and we all got very excited indeed the car was eventually announced and it had a proper naturally aspirated six-cylinder engine more than that one they had created from the ground up based on the three liter twin turbo in the 911. that was quite a surprise they'd gone and built a whole engine just for the GT4 that was pretty cool but still not quite enough the car was more aggressive more Aero more serious more hardcore more stiffer more lower more everything but not a full fat GT because we all knew deep down that if they gave that engine to that car it would show up many at 9 11. and the fact was that in this time the 911's engine itself had been slowly moving ever forward to the point that that car was also nearly mid-engined there is a reason that when you open the boot of a 911 now you cannot see the engine at all it's no longer there it's about here and then pictures started circulating of something going around the Nurburgring it clearly was a Cayman with some different Aero edender on it but nobody was really sure what was going on I personally thought they were testing a new race car and then it turned out they were building this this is a Cayman with the front suspension from a 991 GT3 and the engine from a 911 GT3 technically slightly detuned making only 500 horsepower on account of the fact it's got a different exhaust to a 911 but otherwise this is the car that so many people have been waiting for for so long this is the car that perhaps we're only getting because the Cayman is now on borrowed time and Porsche no it will not be succeeded this is the car where Andreas pointing it and his team were evidently given a blank sheet a big checkbook and told go on make that car we've all been waiting for this is the sort of car that you would normally expect to see only in the museum yeah we trialled it as a concept but uh the bean counters upstairs said it would never work the amazing thing being that the list price of this car actually is shockingly reasonable about 110 000 pounds plus options and the ingredients list really is spectacular you've got some serious Aero front to back swan neck rear spoiler big wheels bigger brakes these lovely vents in the arch here for the vicec pack a carbon fiber Bonnet carbon fiber Wing mirrors carbon here carbon here carbon here carbon here and carbon intakes on the side feeding in the center of this car a genuine fire breathing four liter naturally aspirated 9000 RPM six individual throttle body screamer from the 992 GT3 all it's missing over the 992 is the double Wishbone front suspension but this still has the last generation GT3 suspension in any case and it really is truly a spectacular thing many many people thought this just would not ever happen the sheer concept of it alone is really quite exciting but what about the execution [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] I must admit that ahead of collecting this car I was suffering from a greater than usual level of nerves and I'm not just talking about the value of it and the fact I think this is the only one that Porsche GB have so if I did bend it there'd be a line of very very angry journalists behind me but instead it's because I genuinely want this to be a brilliant car and the simple fact is the last 718 that I spent any meaningful time in was the GTS 4.0 and that was a car that everybody else seemed to love but I found really quite badly Mr Mark and I was so concerned that this would be the same is it I'll put you out of your misery now no this is a fabulous car though it's not an unqualified success and my first few hours in this car weren't the most enjoyable not simply because the first roads I really experienced were the M4 the M25 and then the M11 not exactly the natural territory for this but instead the fact that I am well I nearly binned it and I mean that quite literally I nearly drove it into some bins you see when I exited Porsche reading as I've done many times I fancied a McDonald's it's very early in the morning and I was hungry and I thought I had turned into McDonald's but instead where I'd actually gone was the delivery access route for a large Warehouse having realized my mistake I thought right best turn around quickly before I get told off I went to turn and the car didn't it just kept going straight on so I applied the brakes and then it didn't want to stop I quickly realized why that is because this car is currently wearing a set of Michelin Pilot Sport cup twos which are exactly the kind of Tire you'd expect it to have on but not to the kind of tire that you want when it's just gone eight o'clock in the morning in the sort of late middle of February and it's only a few degrees outside it was a hair-raising moment I will confess and maybe because of that I didn't notice the fact the car was also in it's sport mode for the suspension this unlike many 911s the KN and all that stuff doesn't have Drive modes instead it's just got settings for the things that you can alter which I think actually works better so you've got a button for the pdk gearbox to put it into sport a button for the suspension to do the same you've got a button for the exhaust you've also got one for front lift because this car has that and you've also got a couple for the traction control that I will be staying well away from the suspension was the first thing that I noticed because in sport mode this car is unrelentingly firm it is absolutely unbearable I recall reading that Andreas pruning herself with this car it's about nine seconds slot around the ring than a GT3 which on paper is a similar thing and part of the reason for that was that he wanted to make this a more Road orientated car something more comfortable something more livable if this is his idea of comfy and Road biased I'm not sure I want to experience the new and incoming GT3 RS which genuinely looks like it escaped at the end of the moles and straight even with that mode deactivated it's still a fairly firm thing particularly at low speeds but then so is an Alpine A110 and that rides fantastically once you do get even 20 or 30 mile an hour behind you it does loosen up just a little bit but at all times reminds you you are in something that always has one eye on the track yeah as you might expect and I'm sure you've read this car isn't a natural Motorway Cruiser I had thought that might be on account of the fact the engine now lives in the cabin with you but actually that's not the issue provided you keep the exhaust button off otherwise it's just needlessly boomy the biggest problem is road noise it's bad on anything other than a glassy smooth surface it's really very loud in here annoyingly so but you see that I knew what was more of a concern was how good it was actually going to be when you get to this bit so let's talk about that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you I think the real reason that I was quite so upset with the 992 GT3 when I drove it was I felt that was the moment where the GT3 crossed the line from being a mostly Road car with a bit of track Focus to a mostly tracked car with a bit of Road focus it was an old times just unexciting unless you are absolutely giving it the big one and even when you were just didn't seem to reward whereas the older generation of car I'm not even talking about the old air called stuff I mean 991.2 was exciting at all moments even at road legal speeds so where does this sit well somewhere in between the two to truly understand how I feel about this car let's break it down into its component parts and we may as well begin with that engine because that's the thing everybody's talking about of course here it is essentially the same unit as in the 992 GT3 and so has all of that car's strengths and weaknesses everybody tends to focus on the 9000 RPM Redline and when you get it there it's quite an amazing thing the last 500 RPM in particular feels like the exhaust just falls off and the whole cabin resonates it's quite Sensational and a shame you could only really do it in two years before somebody comes and drags it off to prison but what so few people are willing to discuss is the fact that below 5000 RPM and certainly below 3000 RPM this doesn't really have all that much to offer it's been a little while since I drove a 901.2 but I didn't remember that engine feeling the same way this does when I did the 992 review a lot of people complained and said that I was wrong but um in this particular car I think 92 as well there is actually a graph here showing you where the power and the torque in this engine is and even that agrees with me it's at five where the thing really starts to become a little bit more interesting and when it does get to five whoo you know about it it does not hang our Bell and this I beg you to put in the category of observation not criticism it's something I've noticed not something that I dislike because frankly if you're buying into this sort of car you have signed up for that 9 000 RPM Red Line haven't you that what you're here for what is I think though a little bit more controversial is the gearbox that said engine is attached to here in the GT4 RS you have exclusively a seven speed pdk which to be fair I can't count against the car because if you were to buy a GT3 RS it would be the same and in many ways the gearbox pairs perfectly with the Rev Happy Engine foreign [Music] [Music] as already mentioned it does have the two modes regular and Sport frankly there seems to be very little difference between them but I confessed to being a little bit disappointed with it because in auto mode it's fine when you're at low speed low throttle it does a fairly good impression of a regular automatic Porsche's pdk has always been one of the best for that but when you go to then make an overtake you put your foot down even a little bit and it won't change down one or two gears it'll change down about four which if you are in sport mode I could forgive but it's done that when I haven't been and it's um not just terrifying because that I think is maybe a little bit harsh and unfair but it's a bit obnoxious does attract a lot more attention than it needs to and um it's just not necessary trying to go past somebody who's just minding their own business when you're doing 7000 RPM no no no the other thing for me I think what bugs me a lot more is the fact that it lacks drama the 991.1 GT3 had a pdk gearbox which was revolutionary because that was the first time it had felt exciting the gearbox was an event and this meant a lot because in that car if you're a call was the first time that a GT3 had not been offered with a manual this to me really does feel like quite a step back technically it's absolutely amazing particularly in sport mode it will give you incredible downshifts here I'm gonna go from sixth to second that's decent I like that but it's on the upshift where it's still very very quick obviously can't show you in town but just doesn't have that crack that pop that little moment to make you go oh that was fun I love that and that to me really does take away a big part of the experience foreign as I'm now driving through town and it would seem inappropriate to talk about anything else Dynamic let's talk about something else I also found a little bit lackluster the interior just like the KN turbo GT I don't know what it is with Porsche or perhaps more accurately Porsche customers but this car is offered in a wide range of Fairly nice colors including this lovely yellow and on the outside is this fabulous wacky thing that quite suits my sensibilities however open the door and once again for a Porsche product you're greeted with a festival of Noir this is so depressing in here and the thing is I can't even blame this on Porsche because I've been through the configurator you can have some really nice stuff in here but let's be honest with ourselves shall we this is how they're all going to come isn't it black leather black Alcantara maybe not even with the leather and it just ah and look that's that's not how leather is supposed to feel Porsche that's not how it's supposed to be this doesn't feel a special thing inside you've got a tiny glimpse of those little vents on the arches over there and that's nice but it's just not enough it just isn't the seats though I will give special mention to these are brilliant the only thing I would have and that's convenient because I don't think you can really have all that much else in here I love them they support you they're actually pretty comfortable for longer Journeys I did three hours this morning having just done three hours to drop the turbo GT off and I love them they're fabulous same goes for the brakes actually though I haven't really had any opportunity to lean on them the fact is on the road I'm unlikely to but these monstrous and annoyingly optional carbon ceramic Stoppers do um well they do the job and as I've mentioned the O word now I suppose this is a good a time as any to talk you through some of the options available to you on this car but for that I'm going to hand you over to the slightly calmer and less frustrated voice over JM the base price of the Cayman GT4 RS I'm driving today is 108 370 pounds the specification of this press car is very close to what I think most owners will be going for as with any Porsche there are a number of things that really should be standard the Chrono pack at 194 pounds tire sealant and compressor 42 pounds dimming mirrors with rain sensor at 345 pounds cruise control at 228 park assist on the rear with a reversing camera 825 and my personal favorite a first aid kit 9 quid the big news for the RS is the vysac package first seen on the 918 this is becoming more common on the firm's raciest models and likely designed to appeal to the hardcore Enthusiast because of this I expect it is also going to appeal to The Collector crowd so is going to be a must-have option for many it consists of the carbon Bonnet carbon intakes with considerably more pronounced Scoops carbon for the rear wing a poor script on the rear window and titanium tailpipe finishes inside there is the titanium cage carbon for the intake and air box cover and a vysac pack specific trim pieces this option also enables you to specify the forged magnesium Wheels the viseac pack with the roll cage is 12 305 pounds or 9804 without though the Porsche website and my spec sheet seem to disagree on the exact pricing and if you do want those magnesium Wheels they're another 11 and a half Grand what upsets me most about this pack is that it features all of that carbon but if you want the small triangles by the mirrors to be in it as well that's another near 400 quid more items off the options list fitted to this car include the front lift is essential and 1835 pounds and the rock hard leather interior pack which might not feel great but does look better than standard and that's 1242. without it you'll see a lot more race techs particularly with the vicec pack equipped my favorite item though has to be those bucket seats you can fit standard multi-way adjustable ones in the car if you want to never be able to sell it however what's notable about this specific example is it has the 3D printed body form foam 1895 pounds but I tell you it works they felt great the other big option on this car was the Ceramics given it was obvious these were all going to be highly spec track focused cars from the off I really don't know why Porsche continue to have them as an option but they are and a 6 000 pound one at that all of this brings the total of the car to 1333 549 pounds excellent value and utterly and completely irrelevant as we'll later discuss now back to the reaction foreign now we're back on the road again what else do I notice well visibility 4 is pretty good directly aft other than the fact that the wing and the scaffolding get in the way it's okay okay as it ever will be in a sports car over your outside shoulder is not so bad but the inside one is pretty sketchy because you've got all this lovely carbon intake you can see essentially nothing over there now thus far it hasn't proven to be an issue but I am constantly concerned that I do have a very very big blind spot for what is a fairly small car and now I'm going to talk to you about the one thing I was worried would ruin this car but first a musical interlude [Music] oh [Music] foreign it's loud in here isn't it right steering this is what I was so worried about the 992s was good but not great and in the last 7 18 I drove it was a deal breaker at low speeds it was full of promise and a little bit of waiting and I thought maybe it would work after all electric power steering as this car has is another thing that the GED Department seemed to perfect the first 901 911 just wasn't that good but the GT3 really sorted it and though it never achieved the giddy Heights of the old hydraulic steering it was certainly more than good enough here the first few hours I just thought oh no oh no the steering it's just not right so inert no communication but that was because I was on the motorway with freezing cold cup twos then I got onto more interesting roads the tires began to warm I built a little bit of confidence and at that moment we're in the GTS the steering should step up to the plate but instead goes on holiday this steps up like the 992 it is not brilliant but to criticize this really feels like telling somebody that they didn't do so well at the Olympic Games they still got to the Olympics that's still at their achievement and this though lacking that feedback you get in some older cars is still pretty darn good the waiting is just about spot on you get a little bit of texture and most importantly you do get a feeling of what's going on at the front of this car oh I do feel like in current conditions the tires really are holding me back though I will say much like the 992 this thing is devastatingly quick we're out here in my 430 Scuderia which on paper is a similar thing stripped out hardcore road racer similar weight similar power the Ferrari wouldn't see which way the Porsche went this is mad this thing and that may actually be Odd as it sounds a criticism because this car really does egg it on to go quite quickly you chase that 9000 RPM Red Line then realize you're barreling into a corner at um a quite Unthinkable speed certainly an unspeakable one all right not that you care what's the Turning circle like it's uh it's not bad actually so here's where this rear three-quarter visibility can be a pain but I have got a reversing camera [Music] I do really wish that this guy had just a bit more mid-range Peak talk is about 320 330 pound foot 450 newton meters but it comes in quite late according to the little graph down here for talk I get most of it at about 3000 RPM but more tellingly like the power there is a big swell in it between five and six and that really is where this engine wants to be it's just a shame that uh if you've got any kind of social conscience that's not somewhere you can be all that often or for all that long I will also say that here the suspension does seem to cope with the road just that little bit better Mr bryninger was evidently true to his word foreign it is through little sections like that and this one coming up you get to experience this car's finest Dynamic quality it has some of the most delicious weight transfer I have experienced in anything modern it really is an extremely competent chassis this because that's not something I've ever really tend to pay much attention to but here the car just highlights quite how good it is [Music] it's a bit like the glass buffing showing you his latest project and you're annoyed that he's showing off but he is also quite good at it [Music] foreign thing that covers just about all the important stuff engine gearbox brakes tires handling and in all of those areas the Cayman GT4 RS does very very well but how does it come together well that's trickier because it is a very very very very very good car it is better than a 992 GT3 I would happily have one of these over one of those but just about everybody else appears to think the same way and because this is yet another car with a GT badge on it that meant it stood absolutely no chance whatsoever of going to the people that really should have it already there are a whole bunch of these up on AutoTrader for grossly inflated sums with people asking a quarter of a million pounds in some cases and POA for others which is trade for you really really don't want to know and you almost certainly wouldn't believe it and this is where life becomes very difficult for me because this is the bit we're out but my sensible hat on this is a lovely fine guard to do all this kind of fun stuff in but this is also a car that falls into a very very difficult place because on the one hand it is a pretty darn good road car but if I were doing this route in a Lotus Emira I'd be having just as much fun sure not going as fast but having more fun at lower speed which in my mind is a victory it's also more special to my eyes anyway it's more bespoke looking car and I expect for the vast majority of people even at its list price of 110-ish thousand pounds or realistically 130 to 150 it's a bit too expensive as a track toy however you already know that you can't get one of these for list price if you haven't already got one or you aren't about to get one you're not going to get it at list price so do I compare this with other stuff at list price which you can go and buy where it has realistically nearly no competitors or do I compare this with the other sort of stuff you could get for the money you're actually going to have to pay to get your hands on one of these and let's be generous let's call it a 200 000 pound car not a quarter a million well if you want to do the day-to-day thing if you want to drive this all the time which you could I certainly recommend having the lift I haven't had any issues thus far but you do want it that nose does sit quite low then in a mirror I would say is the overall better bet certainly more comfortable even with the sport chassis even though the Cayman impressively does retain its twin boot configuration so it is quite practical a shame then it's quite so ludicrously noisy inside and actually kind of barmy that it's not the engine producing said noise incidentally if you do get to drive one of these don't press the exhaust button because all that changes really is at certain speeds and RPMs it just becomes drony anyway on the road Emira luggage space aside better more special more interesting much cheaper you can actually buy one yes Lotus have just put the price up I'm sure Porsche have put their prices up too and loaders are difficult to deal with I appreciate it but it's a cool thing very usable and also quite a desirable car at the moment [Music] but then as a track toy I suppose you could go and buy a Caterham and a nicely specked Barely Used Cayman for the same money as this and you'd have a better Road car and a better track car let's then consider you don't want to use this daily instead you've got it as a weekend toy something to take out when the conditions are right to have a little bit of fun for a few hours in well if you're thinking about dropping 200 000 pounds and that opens up a whole world of pretty serious and extraordinary Machinery with genuine theater that money will get you into a Lamborghini Aventador the definitive Supercar of the last 10 years an incredible V12 and though it has its failings you cannot argue with the present and the theater of that you could also get for quite a bit less money ago super legera which is equally as dramatic a little bit more usable on our roads and a very very fun thing for an hour also very stiffly sprung more so even than this but um if you're into your Lambos that could be an option you're also at that money have access to a whole world a 430 scooter ears a car that's a little bit close at home and one that I've had in mind the whole time I've been driving this and the fact is that the 430 is a little bit more practical than you might expect I don't think it's any noisier inside despite the fact you'd expect it because the 430 doesn't really even have carpets and it does have a lot more drama and presence this is a nice looking car but I had it in the car park today and I wasn't looking at it going oh God I need that the 430 though does that to me you'd nearly even get into a challenge stood early for the same money if that was your bag and both of those are great driving cars the 430 more so and the 430s trump card for me is the theater of the gearbox it's hilarious that thing yeah older Tech slower worse in any measurable way but better in all the ones that aren't measurable and yes it's a Ferrari it's older it will cost quite a bit to run it will be thirsty this incidentally has been okay it's done mid-20s on the motorway and um I don't know what I I got there the fuel Tank's a little smaller than it should be 64 liters really for me it should be at least 70 the way that this drinks but uh if that was the Compromise to get this car made then so be it I was genuinely worried that I'd get into this review and then leave it going ah I'm so frustrated I can't have one of these or certainly not a new one anyway and that's the only way I'd want it because I'd need to spec it to my tastes Tarts handkerchief in case you were wondering but actually it's a lovely really really very nice thing five out of five nine and a half out of ten but am I excited by it no I'm impressed by it thoroughly impressed by it it's extremely competent [Music] and it's very fast and it's very wonderful and if you're into your Porsches I can see why it gets all the praise that it gets but am I going to be ringing Porsche dealers to sell my soul no does that mean this car is a failure not a bit of it [Music] enormously thankful to Porsche for allow Andreas pointing it and the team to create this at all and I'm thoroughly delighted that at long last the final generation of the Cayman the 718 has not just a brilliant car in the stable but this also is a fitting and wonderful Epitaph for the naturally aspirated mid-engine Porsche it took a bit longer than I would have liked for them to get here but they did get here and for that I'm glad big thank you to Porsche GB for Lending me this car and as ever to you of watching don't forget to hit the like button comment down below subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you for the next one bye-bye [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: JayEmm on Cars

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Keywords: Diary, VLOG, Car, Sound, Test, video, Review, Comparison, JayEmm on Cars

Id: djopzTsmPYg

Length: 43min 50sec (2630 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 07 2023