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- **Posted:** 2022-11-07T17:48:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Misha Mansoor (@mishaperiphery) — https://gondola.cc/mishaperiphery

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REVERSE GEAR REVIEW: 2022 Porsche Cayman GTS 4.0

Please excuse the hyperbole, but this might be the perfect car. That distinction comes with an asterisk. It’s the perfect car if you don’t need 4 seats or need to go off-roading. Thus, it is the perfect sports car. 

Going into this review I knew I would be tough on this car. I owned a 2.5L 718 Cayman GTS for a few years. The 2.5 turbo flat-four GTS was unfairly judged for its departure from the beloved NA Flat 6, and I will be one of the few to champion that engine as being brilliant. It’s effective, punchy, and has torque fit for a bulldozer.

So we end up with a more expensive version of the already great 2.5L GTS that seems like it could be the cynical play to get people into a new car once their lease is up. Look, I’m really trying here it’s so rare for Porsche to miss. 

This car is an objective hit.

To me, the perfect sports car has to always be the right car for the situation.  We are lucky to live in a golden age of cars where a single car is good at being a lot of things to a lot of people. The Cayman GTS 4.0 is basically the Correct Car all the time. Yes it’s fantastic in the canyons or on a spirited drive, perfect in the way that it rewards good driving and instructs you away from the bad. 

It’s also somehow phenomenal as a daily. It’s such an easy car around town and even in traffic. The NVH is well controlled, and the car is whisper quiet on the highway. The shifter, clutch, and throttle are calibrated perfectly to make gear changes seamless, snappy, and satisfying. The suspension is so well judged that even on the roughest LA roads this contends with the bumps better than most cars.

An the best for last: that engine. It’s a 4.0L naturally aspirated Flat 6 that revs to 7800 rpm, makes 394 horsepower and 317 lb-ft of torque. My one little gripe is that without a fun backroad or a good on-ramp, you will rarely get to hear or experience the full range of this engine. If you do wind it up, you will be rewarded with quite a lot of induction sound in the cabin, especially when contrasted with the quiet exhaust.

Car good. END REVIEW

📷: ekaterinagorbacheva.art 

#reversegear #review #porschecayman

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