2019 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Spied, PDK Rumors Still Hot
Zuffenhausen's new vehicle development motor is working at full pace these days, with the most recent example of this coming from the 2019 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4. Our spy shooters have recently crossed paths with the sharpest mid-engined Porscha around, which is now in its advanced development stages. Unlike the early 718 Cayman GT4 test cars, the one we have here sports dedicated front and rear fascias, with the new aprons showing just how aggressive the aero package of the newcomer will be. Interestingly, the 718 Boxster Spyder, which we spied earlier this week, still comes with the provisional Sport Design bumper, which, by the way, is standard on the freshly-revealed GTS models. When it comes to the tech side of the 2019 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4, the wildest rumors out there talk about the sportscar packing the new 4.0-liter flat-six introduced by the 2018 GT3. Of course, with the mill, which is based on the flat-six heart of the GT3 Cup racecar, delivering 500 horses on the 911 GT3, we're expecting the motor to be downtuned for the mid-engined animal. Since the now-retired Cayman GT4 packs 385 hp, extracted from the also-retired 991.1 Carrera S' 3.8-liter, the newcomer should deliver at least 400 ponies. Until we get our hands on more info, we can at least jump for joy knowing that the GT4 badge means that the mid-engined animal will maintain its naturally aspirated aura. And while we've already shown you a 2019 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 prototype packing a manual gearbox, forum chat also mentions the possibility of an optional PDK. Alas, we're expecting Porche to stick to the reverse-911-GT3-RS recipe (the recently-spied 991.2 Neunelfer won't follow the GT3 down the manual path) for the 718 GT4, which means the sportscar should only be offered in three-pedal form. Even so, expect the new GT4 to be a serious threat for its rear-engined big brother.
They may look affluent and rich, but they are only renting a life style. Most of these people, they are only 2 to 3 months away from being homeless and having their luxury cars and houses repossessed if they ever lose their income from their job. A friend of mine, she and her husband have to work 50 to 60 hours/week Monday to Sunday, so they can pay for their town house mortgage. 2700 plus the CCNR fee, electricity, phone, and other expenses. I won't into details. Why do a lot of people drive a luxury car that they can't afford yet? 1500 a month to pay for a luxury car that we use to go to our work place, and use the income from the work place to pay the bank, so we can keep the car! Also, don't forget about the monthly interest that the bank charges. I met a young lady in her early twenty who told me that she didn't use finance to buy her car but she leases her car!
She thought the best way to own a car is to lease it, so I asked her, what would happen to her car if she didn't pay the monthly lease. She said, the car company would take the car back! At that moment she realized that she doesn't really own the car. She was just renting it from the lease car company. She had to work hard to earn some money to pay her car monthly lease. If she bought the car cash, she wouldn't have to work so hard to keep her car. We have to stop thinking about how much monthly payment we can afford. It is not smart to finance something that loses values and depreciates. If you haven't read the book, Millionaire Next Door, you may want to buy and read it. The book Millionaire Next Door, the author says that most American millionaires drive 3 to 5 year old car that they pay cash for it. They use their money to invest to their wealth accumulation investments, instead using their money to pay the bank's interest charge! When you buy a car on finance, you are like renting the car!
What happened if you don't pay a house or an apartment rent? You will get evicted; your landlord will kick you out of the apartment. It's the same with buying a car by using credit, if you can't pay for the monthly payment, the bank will evict you from owning the car. Before I learned the danger of owning a car through easy monthly financing and payment, I decided to buy myself a Lincoln Navigator through the car dealer financing Labor Day special! 265/month for the SUV. 8000/month just to keep the SUV running. Since we were so broke, we had to learn how to write a financial statement report to see where our money went! After we created a financial statement report, it was like an X-RAY to our financial problem, we could see where the problem was and where our money went, the money went to the monthly payment and maintenance of the SUV!
100 at least every time I made a payment. 100 for each car payment I made; she told me that they were collecting the interest for the loan up front! 165 toward the principal of the loan. It was hard to sleep at night when I had to think about the cost of owning the SUV; I was scared that our SUV would be repossessed by the credit unions if I failed to pay the monthly payments. Within 9 months, we decided to sell the SUV and it was a relief. 265/month for our Lincoln Navigator was pretty bad. Today we drive a Chrysler 300M car that we paid cash for it! It's not as big as the SUV, but we feel good driving it, because we own the car, and no bank will repossess the car if they don't make the monthly payment. In fact, since we paid for it cash, we don't have monthly payment!