2024 cayman GTS 4.0

[Victorofhavoc]

Anyone have driven the 2025 Porsche 992.2 911 T yet? I have driven the 2024 992.1 7-speed manual. Great car but don’t like the 7-speed. Plus the wooden gear stick looks beautiful. Thoughts?

I drove the gts with the 7spd on track. I hated the dead pedal position and pedal spacing. Shifter feel was fine, but nothing insanely amazing. Clutch feel was way better than the its. Going into turns it took a tremendous amount of brake pressure to force rotation and get a wheel to lift, but that's classic 911 rear engine feel. With the engine back there, once you plant your foot on track out it hooks and goes immediately, finding traction through some black magic that diff is performing. Steering feel was very lightweight Porsche and communicative. Not the best of feedback but very good for a street car.

I expect the T to perform similarly but better due to the lower mass. Tried to convince my friend to buy one but he bought a Gt4rs instead because he didn't want a "stripper Porsche".

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[TheRas900]

Anyone have driven the 2025 Porsche 992.2 911 T yet? I have driven the 2024 992.1 7-speed manual. Great car but don’t like the 7-speed. Plus the wooden gear stick looks beautiful. Thoughts?

Agree the wooden shift knob looks fire.

 

[optronix]

I drove the gts with the 7spd on track. I hated the dead pedal position and pedal spacing. Shifter feel was fine, but nothing insanely amazing. Clutch feel was way better than the its. Going into turns it took a tremendous amount of brake pressure to force rotation and get a wheel to lift, but that's classic 911 rear engine feel. With the engine back there, once you plant your foot on track out it hooks and goes immediately, finding traction through some black magic that diff is performing. Steering feel was very lightweight Porsche and communicative. Not the best of feedback but very good for a street car.

I expect the T to perform similarly but better due to the lower mass. Tried to convince my friend to buy one but he bought a Gt4rs instead because he didn't want a "stripper Porsche".

Porsche buyers... I thought the same thing when I bought my 991.2 Carrera S- although I did choose it over a GTS I could have got for the same price because I wanted the rear wheel steering, which is still an option on the GTS cars. But for whatever reason, I didn't want a 991.2 Carrera T I could have got for a few grand less because I wanted "full leather" and more power... all the while my ignorance didn't allow me to accept that the seat material in the T is some of the best out there, and the engine in the 991.2 is supremely powerful across all rev ranges and a few less horsepower would be arguably negligible under almost all circumstances (also it's the exact same engine but the ITS isn't the only car I've avoided wanting to tune...). You do get the smaller brakes in the T but again, negligible difference for vast majority of use cases, even on track. On the 991.2 the brakes do look hilariously small when compared to even the S though...

The 992 T does it even better, and in my eyes now it's the 911 to have for a street car in this generation. Too bad it's now a $150k car. Just a few short years ago the 991.2 T MSRP was much, much closer to a flat $100k. It is insane how expensive cars are these days...

But a 4RS is tough to argue with... I'd take that over a T for the engine alone- but I haven't been following the market. I'm pretty sure there's at least a $30k delta in cost there, if not much more. But a 4RS does indeed qualify as a "special Porsche", and as such will likely just continue to appreciate. Cars aren't investments, but it is nice to know that there is potential to effectively drive it for free.

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