Originally Posted by Gorro47
(Post 15787762)
Hello all
After reading about our member´s father loss, i spoke to my father and we went for a afternoon drive in his old amg. Something about cars and relation/bonds that will live forever. Best regards. cherish this stuff boys. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/rennlis...3f9e55c477.jpg |
Originally Posted by Petevb
(Post 15787633)
Or they are in the embargo period? Magazines will get information before an official release so they can have their stories ready to go, but only in exchange for not releasing it early. Last year everyone knew a new GT4 was coming, but nothing was official. I wouldn’t be surprised if this year C&D knows, as in officially, which perversely means they can’t say anything.
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Reading between the lines here do you guys think they planned to reveal the car at Geneva and had to make an engine change or something and that's why it's not happened?
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Originally Posted by VLJ
(Post 15788905)
Reading between the lines here do you guys think they planned to reveal the car at Geneva and had to make an engine change or something and that's why it's not happened?
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Originally Posted by blackholescion
(Post 15788797)
The original embargo when the CS released coincided with Geneva. This was directly from CJ. Geneva came and went. Porsche had to have picked Geneva for a reason initially.
I never heard anything about any GT products at Geneva, I did hear that the Cayenne Coupe was supposed to be there but then it wasn't. I think they just didn't have the production capacity to start building GT4s yet so it had to wait. Nothing more complicated than that. |
I'm sorry to bring up the turbos again, but I had a thought this morning. I'm curious about the new twin mufflers. I realize the CS has them with the same engine we have in our cars, which ought to make it a lot louder since they are smaller, but on a race car the noise is usually not an issue. That being said, with Porsche going from a big center muffler on the 981 GT4 to smaller twin mufflers ( I assume they are smaller because there isn't much space there) wouldn't that make another case for it possibly being a turbo engine, since turbos act like mufflers already and are quieter to begin with?
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GT4s don't have a big center muffler ala GT3
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Originally Posted by VLJ
(Post 15788905)
Reading between the lines here do you guys think they planned to reveal the car at Geneva and had to make an engine change or something and that's why it's not happened?
Originally Posted by Five12Free
(Post 15788944)
I think they weren’t getting the performance they were after with the GPF.
Originally Posted by JCviggen
(Post 15788958)
The CS embargo was way, way before Geneva and only because the racing season was kicking off.
Originally Posted by GoKart Mozart
(Post 15789020)
I'm sorry to bring up the turbos again, but I had a thought this morning. I'm curious about the new twin mufflers. I realize the CS has them with the same engine we have in our cars, which ought to make it a lot louder since they are smaller, but on a race car the noise is usually not an issue. That being said, with Porsche going from a big center muffler on the 981 GT4 to smaller twin mufflers ( I assume they are smaller because there isn't much space there) wouldn't that make another case for it possibly being a turbo engine, since turbos act like mufflers already and are quieter to begin with?
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For what it is worth, the GT4 Clubsport production was behind schedule and I would think the GT4 street cars are also behind schedule therefore the delay on a launch venue.
for a .2 car, the anticipation is highest i have seen. |
Does it even have to be released at an auto show or will it just pop up on the Porsche website one day?
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Originally Posted by tcsracing1
(Post 15789236)
For what it is worth, the GT4 Clubsport production was behind schedule and I would think the GT4 street cars are also behind schedule therefore the delay on a launch venue.
for a .2 car, the anticipation is highest i have seen. |
Originally Posted by 008
(Post 15787857)
would that mean that you also know something?? 😇
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Originally Posted by Riz
(Post 15789345)
Does it even have to be released at an auto show or will it just pop up on the Porsche website one day?
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Saw this in GT3 forum. Picture of the Speedster exhaust set up. No wonder the 718 GT4 sounds ****ty... those GPF are huge!
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I believe they were caught off guard with the GPF. It was more work than they anticipated developing new exhaust systems for their model range and getting them all approved by Sept 1 2018. They had to enforce a temporary ordering restriction, while phasing in the GPF.
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