Last May, we brought you advanced notice of the 2015 Porsche Cayman GT4, which is expected to follow in the hallowed tire treads of the visceral brain-nuke that is the 911 GT3. Today, we bring you images of a prototype that looks 100 percent ready for the showroom.
If this indeed is a production-spec Cayman GT4, most of the modifications we saw on the prototype back in May (front fascia, rear diffuser, ducktail-style lower decklid spoiler, GT3-like duct in front of the hood) were product-correct. Only the stand-up (likely adjustable) rear spoiler appears to have changed in design, while the wheels and mirrors have been swapped in from higher-end Porsche models. Stripping the camouflage off the DRLs and taillamps reveal absolutely nothing surprising, leaving us with a car we can’t wait to see—and touch and feel and hear and drive.
There’s little we actually can confirm about what’s going on under the skin, though we fully expect the GT4 to use either by a more powerful version of the 3.4-liter boxer six that currently makes 340 hp in the Cayman GTS, or possibly the 400-hp 3.8-liter unit from the Carrera S. (Here’s hoping Porsche chooses the latter.)
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We’ll bring you official information on the GT4 as soon as we get it, which could be as soon as next week’s Detroit auto show, or, possibly, the sportscar-centric Geneva auto show in March. In any case, don’t expect it to look much different than what you see here. And that’s completely, totally, 100 percent okay by us.
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