The Porsche flat four has its own deep rooted history and charm, the sound of the flat four engine is absolutely fantastic as a four pot. This give Porsche enthusiast who want a turbo engine within the Boxster/ Cayman range the opportunity for the ownership without have to go down the 911 turbo route. However the flat six purists can carry on enjoying their six pot engine, I like my naturally aspirated engine coupled onto a manual transmission, bhp or performance is immaterial when I drive my flat six Porsche except that quintessential distinctive sound of my engine. I do love all box engines and their respective sound but I will only swap my flat 6 for the 4.0 Cayman and this not a rational decision rather passion for the six pot. Excellent four pot have enriched the cayman range, it’s not about six being better rather your choice being better.

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for giving us another perspective on the pot four. I do agree it allows many customers that for financially reasons can’t make the jump to the 911 turbo or people that want to experience the turbo charged in a smaller engine. We had new customer now being opened to the idea of buying a smaller engine Porsche as they felt comfortable with what was on offer. These four pots offer phenomenal performance. As for the jump to the 4.0, it would be interesting to experience that. I haven’t yet driven the 4.0.

totally agree, the engine sound is different from the 6 but equally intoxicating

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jon 😊

I have one of these (a Boxster) and I prefer the 2.5 over the 4l simply because the gearbox has very long gears in 1st and 2nd. This means that to get the engine in high-power rpm's, you're going 86mph in 2nd gear. You'll never get the benefit of the 4l on normal roads.

I own this exact car, and love it! I will say, I do think the 6cyl sounds better, but the 4cyl does not sound bad at all! I love the low down torque from the turbos… and would rather than that than the improved sound from the flat 6 personally. I think anyone who hasn’t driven the 4cyl needs to before making pure judgment.

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately a lot of purist slam the 4 cylinder before having even driven one and I don’t think some of the criticism sticks hence the purpose of the video

I wasn’t previously considering a 4 pot but after this review I’m seriously tempted esp with the way it sounds.

@lolowong439

Жыл бұрын

It sounds so deep irl fr. Go and find one and listen to it. Ironically my friends seeing my car for the first time thought it's a 4.0. Lol.

@Alex-ed3eh

Жыл бұрын

@@lolowong439 haha I don’t get the hate on the 2.5 GTS.

@jazzragu

Жыл бұрын

I have the 2.5l Cayman… it’s fine, and pretty decent at full chat. I had a 6 cylinder 997 911 before, and that sounded good at high revs- anything else was pretty dull. My M2 sounded great and overall a much more exciting car, but precision isn’t quite there- more of a rodeo. If that helps at all.

Brilliant presentation, knowledgeable, informative and personable. Keep up the great work

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Thanks David, we appreciate the feedback and glad you liked the video

Blue looks so good on the cayman. Beautiful drone shots and informative review

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

I must agree blue looks good on a Porsche 😊❤️. Thanks for the compliment

Watching this confirmed for me that of all the 718 variants available, the 718 Cayman GTS 2.5 is the way to go. As sonorous and wonderful as the 4.0 is, you can't beat the 2.5 for its incredible torque and efficiency, not to mention the APR tunes that allow the engine to contend with the mighty GT4. Win-win! And I think the 2.5 GTS sounds incredible.

@invictusporsche

Ай бұрын

They are so good and underrated. We sell them quite often

Boxster GTS 2.5 - 0-62 in 4.1 sec. With sport chrono packet. Official Porsche website.

@linocastro5249

Жыл бұрын

The 4.6 sec is for the manual version.

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correct Lino 😊

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

@@linocastro5249 much appreciated my friend. I take these numbers from two websites and unfortunately I can get it wrong. Although I do my website to make sure they are correct

@lolowong439

Жыл бұрын

2.5 CGTS was 3.9 on Porsche documents!

@mustaphayusof2710

Жыл бұрын

@@lolowong439 wow

Great video subbed

@invictusporsche

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for subscribing. Appreciate it

Superb car

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

The real star 💫 is the PDK synchronous box which is a stunning piece of engineering - perfectly mated to the 2.5 - a manual could not touch it in terms of performance

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

PDK is truly amazing gearbox. What do you drive currently?

@chateaudusavon251

Жыл бұрын

@@invictusporsche 2.0 manual - and it’s a struggle

@BmacRDX

6 ай бұрын

On the contrary, I think the manual feels perfect with the 2.5 having just driven one today. There's so much torque that it pulls well even lugged down and the engagement in the drive is improved significantly.

Great review…

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Nick. Appreciate the support

I hope people continue to bash this car and the Porsche enthusiasts put this one on the wayside so the price can sneak down. Plan on buying one down the road

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Haha I like your outlook. What do you have currently?

Is this a stock exhaust? It sounds much more deep than I would have imagined

@invictusporsche

7 ай бұрын

Yes it is stock. Gotta hear in person

Just a simple APR tune and the 2.5T is faster than a GT4. It’s crazy what it does to the 2.5T

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Massive potential. Would be great to get a tuned one on the channel

@John_watches-cars

Жыл бұрын

@@invictusporsche If your ever in the NYC Long Island area let me know. Just a simple direct port APR tune to the ECU and a Souls bolt on catted down pipe. Two things that can easily be put back into stock. You have to feel the power and hear the sound to believe me!

Combined is 23 mpg not 30mpg. Great review except or that

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Thanks James for the correction and we appreciate the compliment 😊❤️

Funny, you only react/respond to positive comments... I‘ve corrected your info (GTS - 0-62 time PDK + SC) in a positive way (my previous comment)... but no reaction...

@brianmakomva733

Жыл бұрын

😂 there you go. Here to sell cars. Not to be corrected

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Lino I have just seen the comment, we try our best to respond. Sorry my friend if it came across that way. I normally sit down to respond to all comments in one go and one I am tired or spent 15 minutes I revisit in a couple of days to go through it again.

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

@@brianmakomva733 😂 we do appreciate being corrected. If it’s not for you lovely folks, we wouldn’t exist. Although you are right that it gets busy selling cars. KZread is a fun hobby, a lot of efforts goes into making the videos and so every comment from our end is read, plus we genuinely thank you all from the bottom of our hearts whether it’s a positive, negative or a correction 😊🙏❤️

@Alex-ed3eh

Жыл бұрын

@@brianmakomva733 be better not bitter

if Sath lets flats reviewed a car...

And I don’t see the reason to pay 10k more for the GTS against 718 Cayman S !

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

You are not wrong but some people have the disposable income and are happy to pay for marginal gains and improvements.

@chvdely7109

10 ай бұрын

You get the full options from 15k for 10k i chose the gts , for torque vectoring , sports diff , sport chrono pack, magnetic ride , … , better black look lights and decals outside and the rareness of the gts , these days they are very hard to find , drive a normal s or a gts you will notice how much sharper a gts drives ,now with a remap its a beast , but most people have a lot of comments and never drove both cars to compare or even own one

Sounds better than a naturally aspirated engine ? I think KZread should now force channels to inform viewers that there is financial inventive behind certain ‘opinions’. Mans just trying to sell a 2,5L

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Haha Brian that would be awesome if we could make KZread do that. I am genuinely amazed how good the 4 pot turbo charged engine sounds. It was easy to not like it until I test drive one. Lol and yes Ofcourse we are here to sell a car bud at the same time there is no substitute for the passion and love behind the effort that goes into making these videos. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊👍

@Alex-ed3eh

Жыл бұрын

There are owners of the 2.5 GTS that seem very happy with the sound of it so I think the reviewer in question has a point

Do you prefer : 718 GTS 4.0 718 GTS with 2.5L 981 GTS ?? ☺️

@invictusporsche

3 ай бұрын

Wow that’s some list but if I had to pick one it will be the 981 GTS

@matteoscuratti8829

3 ай бұрын

@@invictusporsche i’ve 718 GTS 4.0 but i’m agree with you man☺️

LOL the car sounds so bad in youtube videos, but honestly its not nearly as bad in person.

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

There is a whole art to picking up exhaust note via mic and I’m afraid we haven’t mastered it yet. Still working on it

@bertschmert

Жыл бұрын

@@invictusporsche All good, not just you. Almost everyone. So hard to hear actual notes through KZread on headphones anyway.

6.0 litre engine 😂 I’ve watched a few of your videos and for a Porsche specialist you don’t really know what you’re talking about. As for the 4 pot sounding better than the six 😂😂

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

Could you elaborate on what you are referring to?

@j911k

Жыл бұрын

@@invictusporsche You said the 2.5 is better than the 6.0 ?? Also in your 718s video you said “the engine is a 2.5 litre turbo flat 6” In your 987.2 video you say top speed for 2.9 is 261 , you also said the 2.9 has a dfi engine , it doesn’t only the 3.4 litre is dfi . I’m not bashing your channel but I think scripting the videos and checking the facts would make them better. It’s off putting when a specialist gets things wrong , also confusing for people new to Porsche when the stats are incorrect. I do like the sound of the flat four but it will never sound better than the N/A six 🙂

@invictusporsche

Жыл бұрын

@@j911k thank you for the constructive feedback here. I do appreciate your points about getting the small detail right. I memorise the script especially the numbers in a very short time sometimes it can be be a couple of minutes. Mishap’s can happen. It’s not my intention to get them wrong. The claim about the 2.9 being DFI is incorrect. I did get that wrong in my early videos as that was assumed. Having done further reading into it, the 2.9 is based on the 9A1 architect of the DFI. The 2.9 can still suffer from bore scoring. I appreciate the time you have taken to highlight the small detail I got wrong and I agree it shouldn’t happen. Thanks once again and have a lovely day ahead 👍🙏😊

@j911k

Жыл бұрын

@@invictusporsche Thankyou for taking the time to reply , once again I’m not bashing the channel and can imagine the work that goes into the videos.