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THE RUNDOWN
On page 78, technical editor David Beard
answers the question: How’s the Ski-Doo-ing?Porsche comes to its
senses and replaces the
old Cayman GTS’s flat-four
with an all-singing,
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It would be easy to fill pages with moon-eyed poetry
praising the intoxicating zing of the new 718 Cay-
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purpling prose.
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