2018 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS and 718 Cayman GTS review — Auto Car
Porsche has upped the power, performance and purpose of its 718 sports car range to create the 2018 Boxster GTS coupe and Cayman GTS convertible twins. Are these the new fat-free driving kings from Stuttgart?
Pity the Boxster and Cayman’s perpetual crawl out from the shadow of the 911 in constant effort to be accepted as bona-fide heroic Porsche sports cars. And that’s despite what sometimes seems like their maker’s best efforts to keep them on the back foot and in the dark. The slow, evolutionary creep of adding 10kW here and shaving one-tenth of a second there improving the breed lacks the kind of resonance needed to break that ‘poor man’s and woman’s Porsche’ stigma.
It’s the blessing of an inherently brilliant chassis that’s been the Boxster’s and Cayman’s curse. When this current generation launched the old naturally aspirated, six-powered pre-turbocharged form, Porsche made a fair song and dance that the platform was inherently more dynamically capable than that of the flagship 911, thanks to the interplay of wheelbase, track, a lower centre of gravity, and engine placement forward of the rear axle for more ideal weight balance.
And so the junior twins play to a formula that promotes dynamics first and tends to squash output, performance and sheer acceleration into far less significance. Porsche stymies the Boxster and Cayman’s potential so as not to tread on the coat-tails of 911’s halo. Hamstringing the Cayman/Boxster with 2.5-litre four-cylinder power rather than the 911’s fulsome turbo sixes is an easy tactic.
But as the latest and greatest 2018 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS or 2018 718 Cayman GTS prove, if you continue to steadily evolve goodness, it eventually becomes greatness, regardless of the wider prevailing perception.
If fitted with optional seven-speed dual-clutch PDK and using the standard-fit launch control, either coupe or convertible will launch from a standstill to 100km/h in 4.1 seconds. The glass half-empty viewpoint is that this improves on the current 718 S variants by just one-tenth of a second (there’s that evolutionary creep).
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