Porsche Cayman GT4 | evo Hot Lap 

The hotlap camera angle was perfect! You could really sense the speed and the car's reactions to cornering.

One of the most exciting in-car laps I’ve seen in quite some time! Steve was not leaving much on the table on that lap 😉👍!

That in-car hot lap footage was the best I've seen in a review. Lovely format, glad more is coming.

That lap time is incredible. I've driven that track in an F3000 car and I can tell you that 1:18 is an unbelievable time. The average speed is over 135kph and the last 2 corners are taken at around 150kph.

Perfect camera position, superb driving!

I can't give you enough praise for actually using the onboard footage throughout the lap, thank you

So fun to watch someone who knows how to drive review a car vs most car reviewers

Steve, more of this mate. You pushed that car hard and you can see it respond. What a video!

Great video. Seeing that they are committing to this new serious, and having seen some recent content with Jethro gives me hope that EVO might be making a comeback.

Steve, I've followed you for over 10 years mate and in 4 minutes, you summed up the GT4 perfectly! More of this please!!!

Amazing lap, amazing footage. The camera moving around a bit during braking, cornering etc- *chef's kiss 10/10, awesome work

PLEASE include the same uncut onboard footage in future videos too! Really shows off the car's driving dynamics and (more importantly) how insanely talented Sutcliffe is.

Look at hard as you want: there is no better auto journalist than Steve Sutcliffe. Just the best in every way,

In my opinion, this is the best Porsche for sale today. It’s quick, handles superbly, sounds right and doesn’t cost a ridiculous amount. It’s the car the best 911’s were. They’ve become big and heavy whereas the GT4 is smaller and nimble. God I wish I could afford one. Guess I’ll stick with my RS3 for a while 🤷🏻‍♂️

Loved the pov, shows how hard Steve was having to peddle!! Hell of a driver 👍

Great job. I like the idea of the 'Hot Lap'. Steve, thanks to you and your last GT4 test drive, I bit the bullet and bought a new one, normally a 911 man, but have no regrets so far. Still running it in, then to the track. Cheers

Steve really drives this on the raggedy edge. Superb!

I work in racing and recently had a chance to sample one of these at Indianapolis Motor speedway. Extremely impressive package, super responsive and easy to control wayyy past the limit.

I can‘t exactly tell what it is about this onboard, but wow that was a view!!! 💪🏻😳

At first I thought "blimey, this is a bit brutal", then I saw Steve's eyes smiling in one of the shots and thought "yep, everything is fine" Thank you again Steve :)

Having driven that circuit, that man can seriously drive!!

Steve pushed Hard on that hot lap! Impressive car And impressive driving skills!

Wow! That hot lap slammed me in the face hard! Great footage, really captured the rush of this lap so well!! Keep'em coming 👍😎

4:48 what an aggressive entry, nice!

Steve has the best job in the world...and is the best at it.

That felt intense! Love it, it is interesting how many times you don’t really feel or get a good sense as to just how brutal it is to push a car to the limit, this vid was great!

EVO are just as good at videos, as they are their magazines!

More content from Evo please! I’m a 718 Spyder PDK owner and can confirm it’s fantastic with that gearbox.

Perfect camera angle but the sound design is blowing out my headphones. What a f’n lap though, you were on rails.

Great lap and great video Steve!

What a POV! superb stuff

That’s a very fast time ! I know the circuit layout changed a couple of years ago so not directly comparable but I remember steve doing 1.19 around the west circuit in a 991 Turbo S and thinking that was ballistic !

Steve the man! The best reviewer in the world..by far

You can drive Steve... Not much left on that lap...

Ahhhhhhhhhhh! That was refreshing on a dull workday...Thanks.

Flipping hell, nothing left on the table there!

We need more!!thank you!

Great! 👋🤩🏁seeing forward to the continuations - perfect non nonsense video concept 🍻👍

Second time watching for that sensational hot lap.

Excited for this series

cant wait for more.....lets go Evo!

2:49 reaaally goin for it here!

BEAUTIFUL.

Would love to know how you got such a perfect angle and what you filmed in. Felt more like a passenger ride on track than watching a video!

That’s Drive it like you stole it driving. I really enjoyed this and looking fwd to the next one!!!

Great camera angle keep it up!!

My guy!!!! Love the video

I'v driven the cayman GT4 Cup Car around a race track and it is quick to snap oversteer and a bit of a handful as agreed by my instructor who drives GT3 Cup. But what a car!

That hotlap was something else 😍

I need a stiff drink after watching Steve's mega hot lap. That was properly savage! Looks like the GT4 has got pretty epic turn-in. Also, does it sound different? Seems less sonorous than before.

Superb!

What a drive

A little too aggressive and def could be quicker, but I appreciate the effort! Also worth noting that those lap times are almost all older models, so not exactly the highest bar.

What a track beast

Would love to own that beautiful car.

That’s a quick time!!! Similar to my F3000 hot lap with traffic (which is a single seater!).

Banging video

Fair play……hustling it. The pdk is the gearbox for the GT4. The long gearing not nearly as obvious with the pdk.

Imagine what the RS will be like 😳

Mate shocking driving if you're going for laptimes, sliding all over the place and just throwing the car around but it was mighty enjoyable to watch. The other cars on that leaderboard were mostly outdated and not really in the same class either, but hopefully you lads can take a few more on the track and give the GT4 some competition!

Now this is the kind of series i can get stuck into

get other journos to do this and it wont be as exciting...sutcliffe the best there is atm..not even trying to sell himself and do stunts or burn outs but pure execution for a review..always loved his timed lap pieces

Coming in hot 🔥🔥 Sub’’d! More of that please 🤩

I'd say the difference in laptime compared to the others had just as much to Steve giving it some!

Great review Steve. Sorry about getting kicked out of the Beatles.

Nice watch

Fantastic lap very well driven, I wonder if it might have been quicker with traction control on ?

Wow, mighty impressive driving there……

Love a GT4 and certainly a car I may buy in the future, as a current Giulia Quadrifoglio owner I would love to see you drive a remapped one on better tyres (cup etc)

Top stuff

Nice video 👍

I am not terribly confident that Steve Sutcliffe looks at these comments, but if he does (you do), I am a tremendous fan but I recommend you take a look at your EVO colleague’s Carfection posting of 6/6/2018 about manuals and the then current GT3 (as well as some of your own videos in which you vacillate between the PDK and a manual for Porsches). For you, on a track, as someone who can handle oversteer and understeer so beautifully, the PDK makes a great deal of sense. For lesser mortals (not including Mr. Catchpole), who spend very little time on a track and try to find challenging roads on which to drive the 718 GT4, managing the manual - especially this manual - is a beautiful part of driving the car. It might seem that it would be nice for a far lesser driver to take shifting out of the picture but in fact trying to do a decent job of shifting with this lovely gearbox while also attempting to take a proper line on curves, hit the proper brake point, and steer with the GT4’s magnificent precision on that score as well, is a significantly better experience. I will admit to being a “purist,” but if you’re as far short of your level of driving ability as I am, paradoxically, for me at least, it’s more fun to handle more challenges and work on more driving skills than it is to have the undeniably superb PDK thwart my efforts to improve my driving across the board. I actually think you agree, but it didn’t come across that way in this otherwise astonishingly good video (see my comment immediately below). Sorry re the length, for you and anyone else who might read this comment.

Please get the gt3 on that track now. after watching your lap with it at the other track, man, that could be something

Short, but sweet. If I'm ever a millionaire, this guy is going to be my driving instructor!

I am shocked the gen 1 Giulia Quadrofoglio was #1 out of all those cars!! Wow what would the GTA M do on this track?!

Awesome video and driving. When we'll see the lap on the GT4 RS ?

What camera did you use for the onboard? Great stuff.

The RS is on the way and it’s going to be epic!

Oh man. So much quicker. Still would get the manual

Gees, that’s what I call driving in anger!

Hey guys could you also please include the tire that you're using on these cars? I imagine if you got one of these with the cup two tire they would be significantly faster than the normal pirelli p0 that they come with from the factory...

Looking at that initial leader board I knew the GT4 would be above the Cayman S, so top 3, probably in the 1 second gap before the Guilia. Nah, got that wrong.

Mega!!! Is there anything more to say than this?

What was the suspenion setup, ARB settings and rear wing settings please?

Great car . May I ask are you letting the ECU shift itself during the lap ?

Can’t wait for the GT4RS! Apparently it will have double wishbones in the front, but keep struts at the rear 😂

I think it needs to be made clear and mentioned where track focused rubber is used (in this case pilot sport cup 2)... probably adds a good couple of seconds to lap times round there. Awesome time though.

If you love the speed. PDK is great. Even more so is auto steer and brake where the computer does all the steering and braking for you. Thats way faster yet. Then of course to make the car even faster you send the car out without the driver so that weight is gone and with that mode you order the car without ac or a blower motor or heater or seats or mirrors. Then you have the best car you can enjoy

Interesting to see The FK8 Type R Limited Edition in 3rd place in the leader board at Bedford. And it had 3 pedals vs. the GT4 PDK. Faster than the 718 Cayman S.

Wonderful lap. Can you test a 992 Carrera S now.

Great Channel just a pity we are blocked from watching it here in South Africa

I wanna see my 2022 Supra 3.0 in the mix 🏁

Awesome series’s. Let’s get the G80/G82 M4 on the board already… will it take the GT4…

Co-drive will be nightmare

Would love to see how the new, similarly priced, Emira compares.

That was the more brute force way I've ever seen through a chicane lol

911 Turbo S and 911 GT3 hot laps please!!!!!!

Mmm, yes. Lovely.

Awesome video Sir. Using GoPro? For your next 'Hot lap' video, we'd love to add some Genius telemetry for it - would add another level of engagement for your fans. Or a Co-branded app, the EVO video & Performance app? Let's chat...

Bedford hotlsps with Sutcliffe? Say no more!