Clocking on

THE DATA DOESN'T LIE

Sometimes you just know when you’ve nailed the perfect run. A sharp getaway in the Cayman GT4 with just the merest skerrick of tyre squeal, three crisp upshifts and we’re done. It’s not going to go quicker than that today. Imagine our surprise then, when the VBOX told us it had negotiated 100km/h in 4.7 seconds, exactly the same time we got from the base 718 Cayman 2.0 with PDK. By contrast, the 911 managed a blistering 3.9-second run through 100km/h and aced the GT4 through 400m too, stopping the clock at 12.1sec versus 12.8.