Friday, 3 April 2020

2019 Porsche 718 Boxster And Cayman T: The No-Nonsense, Lightweight 2-Seater You Need




As expected, you'll be able to spot these cars from afar with the retro-style "718 Cayman T" or "718 Boxster T" graphics down the side. If you want a special 718 T color, Porsche is offering Miami Blue and Lava Orange in addition to the usual black, white, Racing Yellow, Indian Red, Carrara White GT Silver Metallic, and Deep Black colors. The 718 T also marks the first time the Porsche Active Suspension Management sports suspension has been offered with the twins' four-cylinder turbo. This is a trick electronic damping system that constantly adjusts the damping force on each corner of the car in response to driver behavior as well as road conditions. This is also part of why the 718 Ts sit just a bit lower than their non-T counterparts. Both the 718 Boxster T and 718 Cayman T will get the six-speed manual transmission that all track Porsches truly deserve for maximum fun-having. The six-speed comes complete with Porsche Torque Vectoring, which includes a mechanical locking rear axle differential to maximize traction. Porsche's (admittedly brilliant, but less fun for the row-your-own set) dual-clutch transmission, the PDK, isn't standard on this one, but it is an option.





The same rules of predictability and vehicle management apply, albeit with much less drama, to understeer. If it happens, you know damn well why; fixing it is instinctual if you remember anything at all about car control from driving school. This predictability, and the confidence it necessarily engenders, is to me the hallmark of a driver鈥檚 car. Knowing from the first set of corners how a car will behave is what makes a great car easy to drive. Knowing where the limit is, when it鈥檚 approaching, and the surefire way to fix things once you鈥檝e gotten them wrong puts the mind at ease. This reassurance allows you to drive a car as hard as the mood strikes you, even if it鈥檚 otherwise unfamiliar. This is what the 911 possesses. But you know that already. I knew it on that racetrack, even if my amygdala had temporarily hijacked my certainty in that knowledge.





In fact, understeer and oversteer are as much coaches to the 911 driver as they are deterrents. If you鈥檝e managed to provoke either ailment, it was for one of two reasons: Either you meant to, or you got greedy. When you didn鈥檛 mean to, you know as you enter the corner you鈥檝e carried too much speed, braked too late, turned in too early or too late, turned too aggressively, or gotten too deep into the throttle too early. Your knuckles proportionately rapped, you promise yourself you鈥檒l get it right the next lap. Of all 911s, the Carrera is the least likely to ever see a track from anywhere but the parking lot. That it can be so rewarding on a closed course, though, is an important factor in the confidence you have in the car on the street. Assaulting the mountain roads of southeastern Spain, or wherever you live, the 911 behaves no differently. Indeed, you鈥檙e far more likely to induce its particular brand of driver coaching, especially with poor road surfaces, and corners designed with the path of least construction resistance (and not the racing line) in mind.





It鈥檚 the response in the steering, the quick ratio that rarely asks you to move your hands around the wheel, and the tenacious grip from the nose despite its inherent lightness. It鈥檚 the ever-improving feel in that electrically assisted wheel that translates the road surface to your tactile senses. No matter how it drives, this new 911 is not a perfect car. It has at least one glaring flaw, and it鈥檚 right in front of your face. On the left side, it鈥檚 uncritical information like time and outside temperature, but on the right, it鈥檚 engine temperature and the fuel gauge. Criticality of data aside, it鈥檚 unfathomable how an oversight like this made it to production. That there鈥檚 a curiously large amount of wasted space on the center console behind the dainty, Braun shaver-inspired shift lever is a triviality by comparison. If a few specific interior ergonomics issues are the sole points of contention I have with the new 911, it says as much about the car as everything else I鈥檝e written. Take a moment to remind yourself this is the base model with performance options. Just imagine what鈥檒l happen when they put the letters 鈥淕T鈥?on one.





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