The Cayman GT4 is back, and so is the Boxster Spyder. Get excited, folks. This time they’re called the 718 Cayman GT4 and 718 Spyder (not Boxster ) respectively, and the mid-engine Porsches are packing even more punch than before. We absolutely adored the Cayman GT4 and Boxster Spyder when we drove them a few short years ago, and this duo promises to be better yet.

The two mid-engine sports cars rank as the top performance picks in their respective lineups and remedy the biggest problem many enthusiasts had with the 718 Cayman and Boxster: the fact their turbocharged four-cylinder engines didn’t sound as good as the flat-six engine in each car’s predecessor.


Porsche says it’s a new engine, and it develops 414 horsepower and 309 pound-feet of torque on its way up to an 8,000 rpm redline. The new 4.0-liter is based-on the same family of turbocharged engines in the new 911, but Porsche has re-engineered it for a non-boosted application. Don’t mistake it for a de-tuned version of the 911 GT3 engine that makes 500 horsepower and 339 pound-feet of torque, though — that one revs out to a glorious 9,000 rpm. The engine in these cars uses Porsche’s adaptive cylinder control technology, so in low-load situations, it’s able to temporarily interrupt the injection process in one of the two cylinder banks. For now, it looks like a sizable upgrade over the 911 S-derived 3.8-liter flat-six that came in the previous generation of these cars.
Cc: Marpol
Source:
https://carzbass.com/2019/06/18/2020-porsche-718-cayman-gt4-and-718-spyder-arrive-with-414-hp-engines/