Thus avoiding the flak they would have caught had they used the new force-fed four-pot
Reviewers who've tried the new Porsche 718 range of models have constantly moaned about how its new turbo boxer-four dulls the experience in favor of outright go and efficiency. However, Porsche is not going to keep the boxer for higher performance variants, like the upcoming GT4 which has been confirmed to get a non-turbo flat-six.
The information comes courtesy of Autocar which quotes Andreas Preuninger, Porsche’s head of GT models development. He said “Natural aspiration is one of our main USPs, At Motorsport, we think we can achieve throttle response and immediacy a little bit better with an atmospheric highrevving engine than any kind of turbo.”
As for the engine it’d use, that might be a lower-powered version of the 4.0-liter unit found in the back of a 911 GT3. It definitely won’t make 493 hp like it does in the GT3, but somewhere just around 420 – 440 sounds about right to us.