Autocar's Five-Star Car award is reserved for the best of the best, and we've two winners this year. The first, the PorscheGB 718 Cayman GT4 RS, combines sheer presence, rawness, drama and pace for an overall sumptuous drive... AutocarAwards
It’s an astonishingly good engine, this Porsche 4.0-litre unit, sharp and penetratingly fierce when you wind it towards is 9000rpm – 9000rpm! – red line. Whether Porsche’s GT department in Weissach intended it this way or not, one can’t help but interpret it as a celebration of the combustion-engined sports car at the most vivid and affecting height it might reasonably reach.
But you don’t need sentimentality to make the car for a five-star road test score here. The engine is only half of the overall experience – if that. The rest of the GT4 RS package is every bit as compelling.
This is the Cayman we’d been waiting 17 years for, since the introduction of the car, which Porsche had resisted making because it was cautious of stealing too much attention from its feted sports car, the 911. And until the GT4 RS, only the Cayman R and the non-RS GT4 had been allowed to delve so deeply into the Cayman’s untapped mid-engined potential.
After the tantalising wait, with the RS Porsche gave it everything it had. Clever aerodynamics, fabulous brake cooling, lightened, stiffened everything with the purpose of engaging and enthralling. Most of us couldn’t remember the last time a road car had been released that felt this purposeful and special – it’s in Ferrari 458 Speciale territory in that manner.
And it’s wonderful on a circuit, too, where you can really get into its precision and feedback, as we noted in Britain’s Best Driver’s Car 2022. At the end of a session like that, it’s terrific to note it was a different kind of car to the 911 GT3, and that these cars ultimately do different things and satisfy in different ways. If a company made one car this good, you’d rejoice. That the same company can make both is remarkable.
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