A Porsche 911 GT4 is coming, and it might be the most confusing model ever

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Cygnus94@reddit

Don't know what's so confusing about it. Porsche want to continue to enter into GT4 championships, the Cayman GT4 is being discontinued, the obvious answer is to create a GT4 variant of the 911 to continue racing in this class globally.

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dragonitexy@reddit

It's not confusing. But it does sound wrong on some Corvette SS, Cosworth Mustang type shit 😅

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carmeiser@reddit

Ooo cosworth mustang sounds good though. Especially an older 68 with the dfw v8 or a widened fox body with one of their rabid turbo 4 cylinders in it.

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HowdyandRowdy@reddit

The rarest Foxbody ever produced was a McLaren mustang with a turbo 4 iirc.

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carmeiser@reddit

I think Ive heard of those, only 15 or 25 made or something.

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8N-QTTRO@reddit

It's confusing to people who don't know that the GT4/3/2 naming actually has a meaning, and isn't just a name that sounds cool.

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JediKnightaa@reddit

This is the reason why I always wondered why people questioned me when I said I preferred the 911 GT2 RS compared to the GT3

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zerosystem03@reddit

Lol when casuals say something like "my dream car is a GT2, maybe a GT3 if i were really rich". I've heard it

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zeromadcowz@reddit

More number means more gooder

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V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit

Too bad, GT1 never come back.

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norfatlantasanta@reddit

GT1 was too OP

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RelevantJackWhite@reddit

nephews finding out what GT4 means for the first time

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CarsPlanesTrains@reddit

Furthermore, at least in local scenes 911 GT4s already existed before the Cayman's race version

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Cygnus94@reddit

The first Porsche GT4 was the GPR Racing developed Cayman in 2007.

There was a 911 GT4 developed in 2010 by GT3.nl

Porsche wouldn't officially develop their own Cayman GT4 until 2016 through Ma they.

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CarsPlanesTrains@reddit

Honestly I thought the GPR car was never officially homologated but turns out I'm wrong, my bad on that one

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Cygnus94@reddit

GT4 didn't really pick up and get popular until about 2015. Prior to that the category is a bit of a hodge podge of non manufacturer developed entries.

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SnikySquirrel@reddit

Great, now you’ll only need to buy 5 cayennes instead of 10 for the GT3.

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Intel_Oil@reddit

US exclusive problem btw. So its not Porsche, its your Dealerships. Since yall in a democracy, maybe start a voting for getting rid of their power.

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ProfessionalReveal@reddit

It must be limited to Silicon Valley and Miami (maybe LA too). I had our local Porsche dealer, that I'd never met before or had any prior relationship with, trying to get me in a GT3 more aggressively than any other car salesman I'd ever spoken with.

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ferdiazgonzalez@reddit

The Evo editor needs some ACC time to understand that there’s nothing confusing about a denomination derived from a Motorsport class.

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TunerJoe@reddit

The article's writer probably couldn't comprehend that between the GT3, GT3 RS, GT3 R, GT3 Touring and GT3 Cup, only one of them is actually a GT3 race car.

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sweeney669@reddit

Well two of them are. The GT3 Cup and the GT3 R are both race cars.

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coffeeshopslut@reddit

One of them was a "mid" engine car, right?

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sweeney669@reddit

Yeah, the GT3R is Mid.

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TunerJoe@reddit

That is false. The RSR was mid engine, which was a GTE car, but it has been discontinued and never even got a 992 version. The GT3 R is and has always been rear-engined.

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3rdreprieve@reddit

To alleviate some confusion, anyone reading the above reply can think of GTE as a successor to the old GT2 formula. (The newer GT2 formula is a much less popular type of car with more power and less aero.)

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BWFTW@reddit

Ostensibly to fit a bigger defuser and not for balance reasons. I imagine it was both but I remember how insistant some articles where that it was only for aero reasons aha.

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LilBirdBrick@reddit

It's worth pointing out that Porsche has removed GT3 from the name of the Cup car this year.

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eZreazy@reddit

I now want to see a Cayenne GT3 car

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spooky-neven@reddit

Thought the s\c was the most confusing for you guys

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mysterysticks@reddit

So in theory it should be priced below the GT3 right? Above the GTS?

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LilBirdBrick@reddit

With the rumors of the next GT3 going turbo charged, I can see the GT3 basically shifting into what the GT2 was and the GT4 filling the gap of an NA GT3.

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BWFTW@reddit

Could be priced alongside the gts like how the gt3 was priced alongside the turbo. There is no gt3rs and no non s turbo right now. But iirc they used to have gt3 and turbo priced really close. And then turbo s and gt3 rs priced close. I could just be wrong though

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Slasher1738@reddit

Porsche kind of bugging out. I don't know where this would possibly fit.

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Affectionate-Fix2797@reddit

How is a 911 racing in a class called GT4 going to confuse anyone? They’ve done so for years.

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3dmontdant3s@reddit

It's the Cayman GT4 successor, currently testing with a GT3 body

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AnonymousEngineer_@reddit

It's worth noting that this isn't going to spawn a road going variant, because it would end up being a crap version of the GT3. It's a race car that is being built to meet the GT4 regulations.

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Intel_Oil@reddit

A crap version? If it had a NA-Engine (for example, the 4.0 N/A from the GT4 Non-RS Cayman/4.0 GTS) and a Manual, it would be a great Car.

But yes, this is a race-only variant.

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stoned-autistic-dude@reddit

Don’t underestimate Porsche to release a model sandwiched between two models with incremental changes between them. Something as small as manual only and minimal options by default delineates a Carrera T so it’s not beyond the scope of the product line.

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Porsches earnings are so bad they’re making cool 911s