Dream drives: would you pick the state-of-the-art Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS or the decade-old 911 GT3 RS 4.0? 🥊
Launched in 2011, the 4.0 was the last of the 997-series 911s – a final flourish before the 991 was launched at that year’s Frankfurt motor show. Along with the slight engine-capacity increase over the standard 3.8-litre GT3 RS at the time, the 4.0 also featured better aero, revised suspension and lots of carbon parts to reduce the weight to just 1360kg.
But then the RS is a significantly different beast. Like the black bonnet, the car’s front wings and that giant, swan-neck rear wing are also made from carbonfibre-reinforced plastic. Add in thinner rear-window glass and lightweight carpets, door panels and one-piece bucket seats and the GT4 RS weighs 35kg less than the regular GT4. But the biggest change compared to the regular 718 GT4 is this new Cayman RS is fitted with the 911 GT3 engine.
In a lot of modern performance cars, reaching a stratospheric 9000rpm redline is almost impossible because everything is so fast these days you run out of road. But the 718’s lower gearing and outrageously sorted chassis means you can actually exploit this engine. In fact, I’d say to a greater degree than the modern GT3 donor car. The 718 gives you such confidence: all the controls are so precisely measured. The ride is firm but never untidy over bumps.
Start it up and it’s a shock to hear this revered engine rattle like a biscuit tin full of marbles – a noisy tickover is just one of the quirks of its racing DNA. Dip the firmly sprung clutch, find the notchy first gear, and you’re off. And yes, yes, YES! Oh God, I did NOT misremember it – half a mile up the road, I’m shaking my head in awe. It is sensational straight away, and the contrast is stark.
No, the joy in this car has nothing to do with chasing that redline – it’s to do with the sensations, the movement, the pin-sharp responses to everything you do, the way the drive is translated from foot to accelerator to engine and rear axle.
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