![]() Just getting the engine into the Cayman required some engineering gymnastics, including turning it 180 degrees so it sits on the other side of the rear axle. But it does mean an engine that, on paper, lacks some of the high-revving Götterdämmerung we’ve come to expect from a GT-level Porsche. Doing this enabled money to be spent on other areas, including giving the Cayman many of the same suspension components as the current 991 GT3. In this case, the 3.8-liter flat-six from the 911 Carrera S. The GT4 development team made one critical decision-to give the car an engine from the mainstream side of the Porsche business. That might seem like ludicrous money for a Cayman, but this is the cheapest GT-badged Porsche ever sold in America. Yet, within the rarefied world of Porsche’s GT division, the very fact that the Cayman doesn’t have its engine hung behind its rear axle is a ground-shaking departure from the norm. Nobody with prior experience of any GT-badged 911 is going to be either offended or surprised by the way the über-ized Cayman drives, or the clinical competence with which it deals with the all-important business of being thrashed around a racetrack. The Cayman GT4 manages the neat trick of being both reassuringly familiar and radically different. ![]()
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