This Porsche Cayman GT4 Rally Car Is The Best Way To Rally

Every Stage Rally Car Should Be Powered By A Porsche Flat Six

There really isn’t much better than the sound of a high-revving naturally aspirated flat six Porsche roaring through the forests of Europe. Porsche has a long history with rallying, and Gilles Nantet’s Cayman GT4 looks to extend that. This is a manual transmission mid-engine delight of a rally car that provides excellent handling characteristics, even on wet and cold roads. Given the opportunity, we’d love to spend a weekend bombing around the back woods of a tarmac stage rally in one of the best cars Porsche has ever built.

There isn’t much known about this car, but it appears to be relatively stock aside from a stripped interior complete with roll cage, a rally-spec suspension setup, a louder exhaust, and a giant hydraulic handbrake to help initiate powerslides through the tighter corners. If you were interested in competing in stage rally in your own Cayman GT4, it’s good to know that it won’t take much modification to accomplish such a task.

Nantet has been known to run Porsche’s 997-generation GT3 in tarmac rally, so it is interesting that he chose to switch to a mid-engine platform this year. The video above is Nantet testing the new car and its setup, so with enough test kilometers, he’ll likely be even faster in the GT4 than the prior GT3. We would like to take this as an opportunity to encourage other privateer rally teams to jump on the Cayman GT4 bandwagon and build their own competitors to Nantet’s car here. We would love to see a dozen or more mid-engine Porsches attacking a stage, if for nothing else than that glorious sound. Perhaps competitors would find even better luck by putting a rally-style suspension setup on Porsche’s factory-built racing Cayman GT4 Clubsport.

[Source: DAVIDEO Production via YouTube]