Yes—718 GT4 & Spyder were covered in Issue 015, a story called Time Machines. 981 GT4 road car with the only red 981 GT4 CS (and 924 Carrera GT/CS) were covered in Issue 002.

 

Ha! This plus the comment it was responding to put things in perspective. I am waiting for a BGTS, and I paid $650 so the supplemental safety bars would be the same color as the car. Then I looked at $250 for a subscription (I had heard of 000 several months ago) and balked.

I just signed up for a subscription. It says on the website it will include issue 18, so hopefully that will be the case.

 

My car is in conrod jail at the dock...please be careful with your wording, as I am extremely sensitive right now, thank you.

 

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Today I received issue 18 of 000 Magazine. I'm not a regular subscriber, but you can order individual issues for $75 plus $11 shipping. Candidly, I expected more from the 000 article on the 718GTS vs. 718T just based on the cost - more technical details, more background, more everything. Kind of like one of those long comparison articles C&D would do back in the day. Call me crazy, but when I'm reading I'd rather see more details and less copy taken up by frou-frou pictures! Several weren't even of the cars, they were things like windmills and a broken road. But I digress....I guess it wasn't the featured article in issue 18. I'll have to give the entire magazine a closer look and judge it in its entirety - but that'll be for another day.

There were a couple quotes that really struck home about the 718 GTS 4.0, so I figured I'd share the best of them here and save a few of you some cash that you can use on other accessories (or maybe whet your appetite and force you to order the issue):

• Nearly identical bodywork belies two very different driving experiences - with the Cayman T dominated by its superb chassis while the GTS 4.0's sublime engine completes the package.
• Anyone anticipating some kind of cut-price GT product will be disappointed to find that the GTS 4.0 feels noticeably different to the GT4, and not necessarily in a bad way. If anything, its less serious demeanor makes the car -- whisper it -- substantially more enjoyable to drive on California's abundant mountain roads.
• Chassis response is always intuitive and reassuring, which swiftly brings confidence in pushing closer and closer to the car's limits -- yet there's still enough playfulness baked in that it stops well short of being too clinical, something that can't necessarily be said for a GT4 on the street.
• (referring to the GTS suspension) The overall sensation is actually quite reminiscent of the purely analog X73 suspension setup that underpinned some of the most enjoyable 981-based Boxsters and Caymans, only with the added sophistication of PASM to push the envelope even further.
• There's no doubt that the GT4 still dominates on the track and hardly makes for a bad road car, but it's no longer the Cayman of choice for those who get their kicks driving the world's twistiest back roads. That honor must go to the GTS 4.0, a machine that retains all of the sheer exhilaration of its GT-bred siblings but pairs it with a chassis that's hankering for a good time all the time.
• While no one has a crystal ball, the GTS 4.0 feels like the one that people will be talking about in ten years, wishing they'd had that proper foresight to pick one up back when they were new and nobody was paying much attention.
• If I'm forced to pick nits they're limited to the understyled bumpers seen on "regular" 718s and the Cayman's too-flat decklid, which is a missed opportunity to celebrate its mid-engined nature with flying buttresses -- while further separating it from the 911 coupe.

 

I understand how you would be let down if that was your expectation. I too enjoy in-depth technical analysis on cars but I also enjoy excellent writing & photography of cars. Unfortunately there isn't a magazine that does both, so I subscribe to EVO, Road Rat & 000 for the writing & photography and Car and Driver and Autocar for the technical details. The 000 content is well worth the price when you understand how much effort must go into the unique stories & features it contains that you won't find anywhere else, all put together in an incredibly quality presentation.

 

Wait, you mean my $300 painted headlight washers were a rip off ? !!

 

my thoughts exactly. Thus my 4.0 996 Cab is on the market and a BGTS is on order

 

Agreed! Currently selling my 987.1 S Carmon Red before my CGTS shows up in approx 6 weeks....I spent too much time enjoying our last moments together instead of trying to list it/sell it. Can't blame me for that

 

• While no one has a crystal ball, the GTS 4.0 feels like the one that people will be talking about in ten years, wishing they'd had that proper foresight to pick one up back when they were new and nobody was paying much attention.

Allocations in demand, waiting lists, none in inventory…what would the situation be if “somebody” was paying attention? Where do they come up with such drivel…