According to the Porsche rumour-mill I have one ear permanently tuned to (
), the RennSport Cayman is - fucking finally - about to become reality (at least in minute numbers to keep the polar bear huggers happy). I'm told the mighty 718 GT4-RS is going to have the glorious 4.0 litre 991.2 GT3-RS naturally aspirated engine (albeit not quite as glorious as the motorsport-derived, legendary "Mezger" engine it replaced due to some emissions BS or other) - and the 911R's re-engineered six speed manual gearbox - shoehorned in. Price will be at least £90,000, but it'll be a vicious Ferrari killer.
Shame most of them will rocket to about £300,000 in value and never be used in anger. Me? I'd keep mine forever and use it as my daily driver, but then, I'm a Porsche enthusiast, not some arsehole investor. As for Porsche UK, they'd never let the great unwashed like me anywhere near their tiny allocation, either, so that's that then. Oh well, I'll be admiring from afar.
I might try writing direct to the factory, though, offering a guaranteed "no sell" contract on my part. Do they want people to drive their masterpieces, or not?
Viper Green, please!
Here's a link. Looks like the brute-of-brutes "Widowmaker" GT2-RS is incoming, too - rear wheel drive natch, but this incarnation with 700-odd bhp and barely road legal slick tyres. Yikes, that'd be an interesting proposition in the ice, what a nice, forgiving car I'm sure it is. (Feck me, the rwd mere GTS is bad boy enough, the back squirms and shuffles all over the road
in the dry and she wants to kill you... these Porkers
bite)
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/porsche/ca ... -the-cards