The First & The Last: A Porsche Owner’s Experience with the GT4’s Decade-Long Evolution

Preamble

No, I haven’t been lucky enough to have cumulatively clocked 10 years behind the wheel of a GT4, or multiple GT4s for that matter, but I did have a chance to sample a truncated version of what this experience would be like. That said, I think that having close-to-a-month living with both these cars at the same time, should be good enough to make my findings more than just presumptive.

Right now, I have a 718 GT4 RS and a 981 GT4 sitting in my garage, the latter of which I’ve been assigned caretaker duties for, while my good friend Mickey builds himself a new garage. He has been kind enough to let me have an extended test drive of sorts, while I look after his new-to-him car.

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