Porsche Is Going Back To Rallying With The Cayman GT4 Clubsport

Porsche has decided to go ahead and build full rally-spec versions of its 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport to compete in the R-GT class of the World Rally Championship
Porsche Is Going Back To Rallying With The Cayman GT4 Clubsport

Last year, Porsche revealed a prototype version of the car at Rallye Deutschland in order to try and gauge whether there would be any interest in developing a version of the car for sale. You could almost call it a pointless exercise - response to a Porsche rally car is almost always going to be overwhelmingly positive and so, perhaps unsurprisingly, Porsche has decided to go ahead and develop the car ready for entry in the WRC and other rally events from 2020.

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Unlike the concept, which was based on the old Cayman GT4, the production version will be based on the new 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport which was unveiled a couple of weeks ago. Powered by a naturally-aspirated 3.8-litre flat six pushing out 425bhp, the car shares many of its components with the road-going model, leading to significantly lower operating costs than other cars in the class - another reason why interest in the project has been so high.

Porsche Is Going Back To Rallying With The Cayman GT4 Clubsport

While the prototype has already had some outings on asphalt, this weekend sees the first test runs for the planned production model - and they’ll take place on snow and ice, driven by factory Porsche WEC racer Richard Leitz.

Porsche has a rich history in rallying, tasting success with the 911 in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and also won the gruelling Paris-Dakar Rally twice in the 1980s using the Porsche 959. More recently, privateers have used the 911 to compete in the R-GT class of the WRC - the same category the Cayman is being designed for.

Porsche Is Going Back To Rallying With The Cayman GT4 Clubsport

Excited? You should be - a two-wheel drive, naturally-aspirated rally car isn’t exactly what you’d call current, so for a manufacturer like Porsche to push through with such a pure concept is seriously refreshing. We can’t wait to see it in action.

Comments

Jianyu Sun

Rally Car X Sports Car?
Best crossover ever

01/19/2019 - 15:44 |
66 | 0

That’s what I’m talking about

01/19/2019 - 18:38 |
2 | 0
Basith Penna-Hakkim

Already doing these kind of builds on Forza!

01/19/2019 - 16:03 |
8 | 0
Freddie Skeates

Come on Alpine, you know you want to…

01/19/2019 - 16:34 |
66 | 0

That would be a cool one

01/19/2019 - 17:05 |
2 | 0

might as well throw Toyota into it with a Rally Supra?

they did it with the celica, so whats the issue?

01/20/2019 - 12:39 |
4 | 0
MeBoosta

It’s alive!

01/19/2019 - 20:22 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

Lets go back 35 years in time and this numbers would be a normal sight in rally :D

01/19/2019 - 20:44 |
0 | 6
Anonymous

The Abarth 124 R-GT still is gonna be miles ahead

01/19/2019 - 20:57 |
2 | 0
ClassicPorsche

YesYesYesYesYesYes!!!!

01/19/2019 - 21:53 |
0 | 0
RWB Dude

Now this is epic

01/20/2019 - 02:13 |
0 | 0
Dante Verna

Oh it is so nice to hear such a loud Porsche.

01/20/2019 - 02:23 |
0 | 0
Pagz777

Hopefully dirt rally 2 could have this as dlc down the line

01/20/2019 - 05:00 |
6 | 0

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