Car and Driver - USA (2020-04)

THE RUNDOWN

To describe the GTS 4 .0 as nearly a GT4

would be unfair to the latter car, but the two

do share a close relationship. The GTS’s nat-

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tively the GT4 and Spyder’s engine, detuned

by 20 horsepower to make 394. That is 29

horses more than the old Cayman GTS. The

new car shares the last manual-equipped

GTS’s 309 pound-feet of torque, but while

the old car hits its torque peak at just 1900

rpm, this one does it at 5000 rpm.

The GTS comes standard with nearly

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the way a Cayman handles and sounds. It

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the GT4 , plus—to give you an indication

of where Porsche’s priorities lie with this

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manual when the car launches this summer.

A seven-speed dual-clutch automatic is

coming eventually. Compared with the base

Cayman, the GTS gets larger brake rotors;

a sportier suspension that drops it 0.8 inch;

standard PASM adaptive dampers; and the

Sport Chrono pack that brings a limited-slip

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and the big clock atop the dashboard.

Porsche restricted our time in the Cay-

man GTS to laps of the Estoril racetrack

The Cayman GTS shares its high-

revving 4.0-liter flat-six with the

track-oriented Cayman GT4, but

20 horses are lost in translation.

Below: The tachometer presents

in Carmine Red.

Torque peaks earlier in the old turbo four, but just above

4000 rpm, the flat-six makes more power.

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72 APRIL 2020 ~ CAR AND DRIVER