By replacing the turbocharged flat-four with a 394-hp naturally aspirated flat-six, the new GTS 4.0 models bring back some Porsche magic that had been lost.
It would be easy to fill pages with moon-eyed poetry praising the intoxicating zing of the new 718 GTS’s 4.0-liter flat-six engine. Oh, the noises it makes hunting down the glory of 7800 rpm, all the while electrifying scalps, tingling spines, and purpling prose.
Yet perhaps the most telling change over its four-cylinder turbocharged predecessor is a much smaller one and the first thing you notice when you start the car: The sewing-machine idle of the flat-four—that busy, not-quite-full-enough ticking reminiscent of an air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle—is gone.
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