First drive review: the GT4 RS is a special-series Cayman with the presence, rawness, drama and pace to mix it with the very best Rennsport Porsches there have ever been
As to exactly what kind of sports car would result, it’s one of the most magnificently raw and spine-tinglingly special kind that’s made anywhere in the world right now, and offered at any price you care to compare, actually.
Being necessarily much longer than the one in the 911 GT3, the new exhaust in the GT4 RS has a pair of rear half shafts to bend its way around on its way to the rear silencers. Producing more back pressure than the one in the equivalent 992 as a result, that exhaust system is chiefly responsible for the GT4 RS’s very slight relative deficits on peak power and torque compared with its GT3-badged contemporary.
“We did a lot to filter out harshness from the engine noise,” says Walliser, “like better securing the whole system to the chassis and damping down the resonances using foam liners for the induction tracts. Originally, this engine sounded very harsh – like a chainsaw cutting its way between your ears, some said. Now it’s got plenty of bite, but not too much.”
Not that you need to know any of that to realise that this is a proper GT Porsche, because it’s got aerodynamic aggression to spare. Weight-saving carbonfibre-polymer bodywork comes as standard for the bonnet and front wings, which between them also duct air into and away from the front brakes via the NACA ducts and hot air outlets adjacent to the front arches.
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