718 Cayman S Auto Express Review
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Reviewers thus far have been almost universal in their condemnation of the engine with its loss of aural character. The F4T not giving you that spine-tingling, hairs on the back of the neck feeling derived from building the 981 nasp to full revs.
PH's Dan is the only one attempting to mount a reasonable defense of the move to F4T, with the fact that it gives you more of a Cayman more of the time.
Ownership will be interesting, and I'm sure the debate will rage on as people take delivery in the autumn.
PH's Dan is the only one attempting to mount a reasonable defense of the move to F4T, with the fact that it gives you more of a Cayman more of the time.
Ownership will be interesting, and I'm sure the debate will rage on as people take delivery in the autumn.
Having driven both 718 Boxsters at Silverstone I found the exhaust note perfectly fine. Yes it is different from the flat 6 but it is certainly entertaining. Future generations will no doubt be hybrid and/or full electric and everyone will be bemoaning the lack of ANY exhuast noise. In my opinion we have lived through/are living through the last "golden age" of the combustion engine regrettably.
WG said:
Having driven both 718 Boxsters at Silverstone I found the exhaust note perfectly fine. Yes it is different from the flat 6 but it is certainly entertaining. Future generations will no doubt be hybrid and/or full electric and everyone will be bemoaning the lack of ANY exhuast noise. In my opinion we have lived through/are living through the last "golden age" of the combustion engine regrettably.
Subjective of course, but I too found the 718 Boxster S note to be fine on the 45 min test run I had. Of course this was around the congested streets of West London, so didn't get much chance to up the revs much beyond a brief blip down the M4 and back up a bit of dual carriageway. I certainly didn't feel the sound of it would in any way prevent me putting down the £3k downpayment on the 718 Cayman S.Sound wasn't quite like anything else I've ever driven or owned that's for sure. It wasn't offensive, or sounding like the engine was broken as was reported by the Telegraph reviewer.
Interesting to compare with the same reviewers 'blown away' review of the GTS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxXrDIevmlY
I watched it many a time while waiting for mine to arrive
In fact I think Steve's review was a significant factor in my going GTS instead of S...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxXrDIevmlY
I watched it many a time while waiting for mine to arrive
In fact I think Steve's review was a significant factor in my going GTS instead of S...
DJMC said:
Timbola said:
...with the fact that it gives you more of a Cayman more of the time.
Could I ask what you mean by that?As I said in my post, that's the position Dan takes in his PH Blog review of the 718 Cayman S as he mounts a defense of the F4T.
Watch from about 6:10 onwards to ascertain what he means by it.
Edited by Timbola on Tuesday 19th July 22:58
te but it is at last a variant that is not all show and no go....albeit it rather audibly inadequate.anonymous said:
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Well although we do not want to address the elephant in the room ( or the turbo in the trunk) ...the 718 Boxster S reportedly circled the Nordschleife in 7 minutes, 42 seconds—an absurd 16 seconds quicker than an identically equipped 2016 Boxster S, five seconds quicker than the six-cylinder Boxster Spyder, and just two seconds shy of the track-focused Cayman GT4.
Not bad for a diesel but it sounded bad doing it
Note no official times have been reported for the Cayster as yet....
FourPotPorsche said:
anonymous said:
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Well although we do not want to address the elephant in the room ( or the turbo in the trunk) ...the 718 Boxster S reportedly circled the Nordschleife in 7 minutes, 42 seconds—an absurd 16 seconds quicker than an identically equipped 2016 Boxster S, five seconds quicker than the six-cylinder Boxster Spyder, and just two seconds shy of the track-focused Cayman GT4.
Not bad for a diesel but it sounded bad doing it
Note no official times have been reported for the Cayster as yet....
If that additional speed is what it's all about for you then you are clearly sorted.
I never considered the 981 Cayman as I knew I would always wish I'd gone the S. I got the S knowing the 718 was on the way and would be honed a tad more here and there, a slab of low down grunt, a bit faster and a few more frilly bits.
I've driven faster cars than my S. I had an R8 V10 Plus for a day. Lovely thing but it was no use to me on my local Essex country roads. The 981 though, I don't feel I need anything faster, makes a lovely noise when pressing on and... It makes a lovely noise when I'm not. The Cayman replaced my TTS, a car that was fast but no fun getting there. I got myself an 05 diesel Golf GT as my daily driver and I so do see the parallels in delivery between the turbo diesel and turbo petrol.
As effective as no doubt the 718 engines are at getting the job done, the faster ring time, 2 secs off the GT4 time, I'm unmoved. F6 sparkle and drama over the new F4T effectiveness and efficiency. All day long. 718 plus F6 though, hmmmmm.....
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