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Motor Trend 718 Spyder First Drive

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Motor Trend 718 GT4 First Drive

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Motor Trend 718 GT4 Tech Details

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Wow-- this is huge news w/r to the gearing. It's basically saying they adopted the gearing from the GT3 and combined with the increased HP and torque, the tall gearing that plagued the 981 shouldn't be an issue.
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Their comparisons are wrong... they mention compared to the last GT4 (ride height and shifter height)... when is should be compared to the standard 718.
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Wow-- this is huge news w/r to the gearing. It's basically saying they adopted the gearing from the GT3 and combined with the increased HP and torque, the tall gearing that plagued the 981 shouldn't be an issue.
They're wrong. AP said himself it has same gearing as 981.
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Automotive journalism is mostly crap. There are some that are good at what they do and don’t get stuff wrong, Hannah Elliott is my favorite, Pete Stout, Catchpoole, but the run of the mill is riddled with errors.
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Originally Posted by n4v4nod
Their comparisons are wrong... they mention compared to the last GT4 (ride height and shifter height)... when is should be compared to the standard 718.
Yeah that stuck out...not 1"+ lower than 981 GT4.
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Motor Trend - “No one will confirm it on the record, but it's whispered a PDK-equipped 718 Cayman GT4 has already lapped the Nordschleife seven to eight seconds quicker than the manual car.”
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Motor Trend - “No one will confirm it on the record, but it's whispered a PDK-equipped 718 Cayman GT4 has already lapped the Nordschleife seven to eight seconds quicker than the manual car.”
Interesting. That would be a lot more than Gt3 difference which supports the torque uncorking theory.
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Interesting. That would be a lot more than Gt3 difference which supports the torque uncorking theory.
Exactly, since the GT3 only gained 3 seconds with PDK-S (engines identical in the GT3).
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Yawn. All of these regurgitate what AP said.

Wake me up when Stout posts his *driving* impressions.
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