2015 LA Auto Show Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport
Jason and Jonny give the lowdown on the Cayman GT4 Clubsport
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00:00 [Music]
00:04 My colleagues.
00:06 One of my colleagues, I will do translating, yeah?
00:09 [Music]
00:11 Welcome here today to the Porsche Center of the Los Angeles Auto Show.
00:15 And hello also from my side.
00:17 And also from my side.
00:19 So we are standing here with the brand new GT4 Club Sport.
00:23 I'll translate for you.
00:24 We're standing in front of the Cayman GT4 Club Sport,
00:27 which is like the Cayman GT4 non-Club Sport, a Cayman GT4.
00:31 So it's got like the old Carrera S engine, so 385 horsepower.
00:35 Naturally aspirated.
00:36 Because the new Carrera S has a twin-turbo 3 liter flat-six.
00:40 But you don't do that on track.
00:41 So naturally aspirated 7800 RPM engine.
00:44 And they pulled weight out, so the dynaminimalism is up.
00:47 Yeah, 2,866 pounds, which is unfortunately like 500 pounds more than a spec Miata.
00:53 But it's got a cage in it.
00:55 And it's not street legal.
00:57 And it's an automatic.
00:58 Right.
00:59 So even a commissioner who doesn't think you're going to have fun in the car
01:01 unless it has a manual will agree that the manual transmission in the regular GT4 is a weak link.
01:06 The gearing is not ideal.
01:08 And the gears are in the transmission, therefore the transmission is a weak link.
01:11 So they added the Porsche double coupling, gobbling, gobbling thing.
01:14 Porsche double couplings get fever.
01:16 That thing.
01:17 That one.
01:18 And now it's got that, so it's going to shift quicker, which is good for track, actually.
01:20 And since you can't drive it anywhere else, maybe the PDK makes sense here.
01:24 No.
01:25 No.
01:26 Why?
01:27 You don't get a sports car with an automatic in it.
01:28 I don't care if it's faster.
01:29 You don't get faster.
01:30 But it's a track car only.
01:31 Pull 500 pounds out of the car.
01:32 I'm sorry.
01:33 But it's a track car only.
01:34 You and me combined are 500 pounds.
01:35 They need to pull two of us outside of this car.
01:37 We're about 520.
01:38 But.
01:39 For yourself.
01:40 Here's the deal.
01:41 Can't drive the car on the street.
01:42 Right.
01:43 Kind of worried.
01:44 Fine.
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