FIRST DRIVE: Porsche GT4 RS On Road And Track - BEST Sounding Car Ever? | Top Gear 

I think combustion engines will make a comeback with the renewable fuels Legislation could even change before we make it to 2030…. Mild hybrids could keep them around for long enough if not, until the fuels are perfected.

Hydrogen 🤞

Even if they do, it’s unlikely they will license it to other car makers. They’re not making a lot of that stuff, 500000 litres in the first few years of production. I reckon that’s about 8000 911s worth of fuel and that’s it. Think F1 has a better chance of getting something like that out to the automotive world.

I'm really less impressed with these electric cars, because they are not practical. The infrastructure is slowly coming in place to meet the demand of the cars as vehicles move into inception. Love combustion engines, the sound is intoxicating!!!

By standard logic, the faster the mass average car owner and model transition to EV. The more fuel will be available to burned by petrol heads for a longer time.

All I want to know is how it compares to new Z06 Vett. Curious about sound and experience.

@@johnbuiatti366 they’re not rivals

@@johnbuiatti366 2 totally different cars. Both awesome in their own way

@Charming Chowder so are you, buddy.

Yet somehow the GT3 is the one with the manual?

Agreed.

Sure, ignoring all the various engine and transmission issue over the years, agreed.

Audi.

ok.

Best comment....couldnt be more agree.

I think you can thank Porsche as a whole because I’m sure there are passionate people from the likes of Audi, Merc, VW, etc. that want to do something special, but the board didn’t provide funding cause they thought there would be too little demand to make it profitable. Porsche on the other hand are just full of passionate people, so you can’t just give credit to Mr Prunigner.

Andreas Preuninger is his name :)

@@raymondberg7385 You're right. "Breuninger" is also a lastname in Germany, just a variation of "Preuninger" so i mixed it up haha. But glad someone else with a german lastname "Berg" corrected me, only half as embarassing now

@@magnustan841 Good Point. Of course it's not just Andreas Preuninger behind this, but regarding Interviews and behind the scenes stuff, lots of him to check out!

Collecting cars has a great podcast with chris harris having a chat with him. Very inspiring man

That’s the issue I hear with these gt4s. They have long gear rations so you barley get to second gear and your already breaking the speed limit. Hopefully they fixed it for this one

@@ejhaneine3168 Well that's pretty well any supercar now, 2nd gear is well over the posted highway limits. It just was a little on the lazy side until 4500rpm. But my experience was with the manual, which definitely made up for it.

@@ejhaneine3168 I hate this argument. The top of second gear in almost every car, slow or fast, is breaking the speed limit.

@@ejhaneine3168 Great news for you then. These GT4 RS gear ratios are much shorter than the standard GT4. Still fast at 2nd gear, much lower.

How is a GT4 slow? What’s the benchmark for fast then?

This guy has definitely grown on me, but if I see Porsche, I need Chris to be driving it.

Steve Sutcliffe is better

@@maxflight777 agreed, I watched his review instead...4 times already.

All about Catchpole 😄😉👍🏻👍🏻

Exactly. Harris is a legend. I love porsche, but there's no way this sounds better than a Carrera GT. Better sounding car? Nah

Lol….. that’s the only thing they have to do, Mercedes’ on the other hand has to make vans, trucks, semi, commercial vehicles……….

What? one RS per dealership, at best. That’s hardly knowing how to deliver.

needs more torque for me to want to consider spending $300k+ for this, and you know that's what it will cost in reality.

@@julian987r4 lol

@@carholic-sz3qv stupid comparison. Mercedes has a department for any of these types of vehicles and about 5 times more employees worldwide.

LFA and the Carrera GT were incredible, and both V10s.

I agree from outside but from inside cabine it seem that GT4RS is on another level.

Also a Murci

Aventador with Gintani exhaust is my favourite

Carrera GT

it makes my chest hurt to think about gas cars getting outlawed or taxed into a special event only bracket.

@@Russell_and_Rosko stop buying electrics. if no one would buy them, do you think they will still be manufaturing them?

@@eugenux you’re funny

@@SaidOkuyucu9580 and you look like very, 'very' intelligent person. Would you buy the same phone brand if they start making dvmb phones?, it is the same with cars. Car manufacturers react to what sheep are buying... and sheep buy whatever hype marketing tell them to buy. It is that easy, stop being a sheep. 😉

@@eugenux You're missing the point of why EV's are and will mostly take over the car market everywhere given enough time. Yeah sure it's better for the environment but that's not really the biggest driver. EV's are simply a better, more reliable and cheaper infrastructure in the long run for everyday cars. there's a quarter of moving parts and electricity can be made a dozen different ways, allowing greater flexibility for both developed and developing countries to make (oil, gas, ethanol, wind, nuke, solar, hydro, geothermal, etc). I love the sound of engines, the feeling, the connection to the drive it gives. Personally I have both, an EV for commuting everyday, a NA 6-spd V8 for the weekends. For most people the EV (once the battery price comes down) will be the way to go. Even a lot of fellow aerospace engineers I work with appreciate an engine, but EV is just nicer... and 90%+ of people dont give any shits what they drive as long as it gets them there. There will always be a market of ICE just like people ride horses or sail boats. But most people just want easy and reliable, which is an EV.

if you want the same car over and over and over again then yes

Until you try and buy an RS, then it’s a very disappointing phone call.

It does in Australia, over $100,000AUD premium compared to the price on the UK, and that's before on road costs and any extra!!

Agree completely, Chris his reviews are the best. Certainly when its a Porsche.

I owned my Porsche just under a year....never fails to put a smile on my face

I think Porsche's GT division has insisted the RS cars be automatic only for a while now (I guess since the 991). From what I've heard it's because they're meant for maximum track performance, and for that I guess that means automatic only.

They couldn't fit the GT3s manual in here because it wouldn't fit and GT4s manual can't take the 9000rpm redline. So either they'd need to redesign the whole chassis, limit the redline to something lower or design a completely new transmission which would be stupidly expensive. So it's not that they wouldn't, it's that they couldn't.

agreed!

@Charming Chowder lamborghini fanboys are most likely 12 y. O.

Issue with GT cars is getting on the list. Easier to go out and purchase a huracan than a GT Porsche sadly

You do a quicker lap in a GT3 no doubt but I bet you’d have more fun driving this.

Good luck on trying to buy either :)

GT3 manual then?

Jack still did a fantastic job

I've been waiting for a Chris Harris on Cars for this my whole life...

What does Chris do better except maybe power slide the car? The answer is nothing. Nothing better.

Or Jeremy Clarkson

Porsche has confirmed the next 718 Boxster/Cayman lineup is going electric, so I guess in some way the Cayman GT4 RS is Porsche's final sendoff for the internal combustion 718.

Cool

I guess £15K is nothing.

I absolutely agree 100%, this thing needs a manual!

Agreed. This isn’t a supercar though, it’s a sports car.

@@Strengthoftenmen Yes it's not a Supercar.

F50, 355, 430 Scuderia, 599 GTO disagree.

You forgot a Zonda, I will place it above CGT, also you forgot Valkyrie (already hit the roads)

Not mentioning the Mazda 787B is just plain disrespectful.

You forgot the Ferrari fxx lol….

@Charming Chowder Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I now drive an E92 M3 competition spec in manual. I love it and I don't drive much being inner city. I'll buy another Porsche one day - they are beautiful cars. And yes, I invest in other stuff too. Cheers, have a good day.

You’re just making yourself sad mate, Porsche delivered on the Taycan, so not much to worry about for the next EV Cayman. Just be glad you lived through an era like this. I’m 20 years old this year and I’m growing up while the industry is going through this EV transition. I love them, but I love a noisy ICE just as much.

@@magnustan841 EV's are awful. No soul. No drama.. And Wayyyy too heavy. You can keep them.

@@MagicAyrtonforever well said

@@magnustan841 You cant compare an ICE to an electronic car. Electronic cars suck

@@MagicAyrtonforever And the most important point of this topic is that human made global warming is a lie