The M2 CS may be an M-car at the top of its game, but can it stand up to the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4?
models, and certainly without the exotic zing at the top end, but very much son-of-Mezger in the thick, multi-layered bellow that rises to a scream. It’s almost a bit too much when you’re just pootling around, the deep low-rev frequencies playing havoc with your eardrums, but then I’m forced to give myself a slap around the chops for such a sacrilegious thought. This is a GT4.
The early rounds are a triumph for the Porsche, and for good reason. When it comes to the quality of controls that you, the driver, interact with, few consistently reach the standard that Porsche does. It’s one of the fundamental reasons why its cars have triumphed more times than we care to mention over the history of this publication. I don’t need to drive to our deliberately unnamed favourite roads in Yorkshire or the Scottish Borders to work that out.
This GT4 feels the strongest of the three 718 GT4s I’ve been lucky enough to drive so far. The first, a Carrara White LHD pre-production car taken away from the end of the international launch event at Knockhill circuit and driven into mountain country , felt lively but not especially so.
I hit the steering wheel mounted M1 button to access my racy pre-saved settings and head out onto some broad West Country plains, letting the S55 sing away higher up the rev range. The BMW motor has enough minerals to combat even a permanently shouty GT4. It’s quicker to 62mph . And while it weighs 130kg more it has a useful margin of superiority in torque, besting the GT4 not just in terms of peak numbers but in delivery too.
Eventually I have to work the M2’s ceramics properly hard to shed speed in time for a blind left-hander. A blip and I drop it from fourth to third, start to apply pressure to the wheel and…-style, it would be just perfect, for it is at this very moment that the real characters of these two diverge forever. The bottom line? The Cayman loves the first half of the corner, the M2 is all about the second half. It can be distilled down to that.
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