Lastsoul
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- Jul 9, 2005
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- MX5, 406 Coup?, 106 Rallye, Porsche 924, X300 Six
I've had the chance to ride shotgun in 718. By no means it sounds bad, it certainly more characterful than most straight four turbos. However, it doesn't burble like a Subaru, it's not as exciting.
Like the Subarus with unequal lenght headers (Porsche has those), at idle it sounds much lager than 2,5 liters (I rode in S). At higher rpms the burble fades away to a very similar, somewhat coarse note of the GT86/BRZ. It's hard to describe: there are plenty of noises, some somewhat characterful, but it isn't a tuneful engine. It doesn't have that glorious howl so typical of naturally aspirated flat six Porsches.
But then again, Boxster and Cayman always had an engine that felt way too exotic for that price point. Now they've fixed that, to get a Porsche with exotic engine you have to get a 911 (3.0 turbo is still great sounding engine, even if not as great as previous NA engines were).
Like the Subarus with unequal lenght headers (Porsche has those), at idle it sounds much lager than 2,5 liters (I rode in S). At higher rpms the burble fades away to a very similar, somewhat coarse note of the GT86/BRZ. It's hard to describe: there are plenty of noises, some somewhat characterful, but it isn't a tuneful engine. It doesn't have that glorious howl so typical of naturally aspirated flat six Porsches.
But then again, Boxster and Cayman always had an engine that felt way too exotic for that price point. Now they've fixed that, to get a Porsche with exotic engine you have to get a 911 (3.0 turbo is still great sounding engine, even if not as great as previous NA engines were).