{"id":295064,"date":"2017-06-24T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=295064"},"modified":"2024-12-20T18:09:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:09:04","slug":"porsche-718-cayman-s-first-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/porsche-718-cayman-s-first-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Porsche 718 Cayman S &#8211; First Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPlK0ULHHk4\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPlK0ULHHk4\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Like the 718 Boxster we drove a few months ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/porsche\/\">Porsche<\/a> has given the 718 Cayman a four-cylinder turbocharged engine, rather than the old, soulful six-cylinder. Does it matter as much here? Or is the four-pot really a fine replacement?<\/p>\n<p>We find out, and wonder: if the 718 Cayman still is as close as you can get to being the perfect sports car, what from Porsche&#8217;s huge options list would you need to tick to make it the optimum version of it?<\/p>\n<p>Watch as our guys from Autocar gives us a full insight about the new Porsche 718 Cayman S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the 718 Boxster we drove a few months ago, Porsche has given the 718 Cayman a four-cylinder turbocharged engine, rather than the old, soulful six-cylinder. Does it matter as much here? Or is the four-pot really a fine replacement? We find out, and wonder: if the 718 Cayman still is as close as you can get to being the perfect sports car, what from Porsche&#8217;s huge options list would you need to tick to make it the optimum version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":329419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16906,12919],"tags":[89,16757,22719,22720,115,8441],"class_list":["post-295064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-porsche","category-videos","tag-porsche","tag-boxster-cayman","tag-porsche-cayman","tag-porsche-media-cayman-videos","tag-porsche-videos","tag-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Porsche 718 Cayman S - First Drive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Like the 718 Boxster we drove a few months ago, Porsche has given the 718 Cayman a four-cylinder turbocharged engine, rather than the old, soulful six-cylinder\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/porsche-718-cayman-s-first-drive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Porsche 718 Cayman S - First Drive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Like the 718 Boxster we drove a few months ago, Porsche has given the 718 Cayman a four-cylinder turbocharged engine, rather than the old, soulful six-cylinder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/porsche-718-cayman-s-first-drive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-24T18:41:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-20T18:09:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Is-this-the-Best-Flat-Six-Engine-6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1017\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"549\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Leofe Capayas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Leofe Capayas\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/porsche-718-cayman-s-first-drive\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/porsche-718-cayman-s-first-drive\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Leofe Capayas\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/257cd15ebb06ba3ddb7fcdcc4316d46b\"},\"headline\":\"VIDEO: Porsche 718 Cayman S &#8211; 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