2022 Porsche Cayman GT4 RS order bank filling fast, but not sold out – yet
Australian orders for the 2022 Porsche Cayman GT4 RS – the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive Cayman to date – are filling fast.
And while orders are still being taken, Porsche Australia believes it may run out of its scheduled production slots.
Porsche Australia has declined to nominate how many orders it has received so far for the Porsche Cayman GT4 RS.
However, it says customers who are already in the queue will receive their vehicles on a first-come, first-served basis.
Orders placed today will be filled some time in the next 12 to 18 months before the production run comes to an end in about three years.
“The Porsche Cayman GT4 RS is not yet sold out for Australia, but we fully expect demand will be higher than what we can build over the next three years,” said Porsche Australian spokeswoman Stephanie Weiser.
Andrea Preuninger, the director of Porsche’s GT division, told Drive the Porsche Cayman GT4 RS is “not a limited car.”
“Everyone who wants one, should get one. We asked every region how many they think they can sell … and then we added 30 per cent to have some safety (margin). That’s why we say everybody who orders one should get one.”
However, based on previous demand for the Porsche Cayman GT4, it’s likely the allocation for the RS edition could soon be exhausted, despite the $300,800 plus on-road costs price.
“Not everybody who is interested in the car, can get the car on the first day,” said Mr Preuninger, who advised production is due to start in two weeks and run for up to three years.
Europe and North America will received their initial allocation by the middle of this year; Australia is due to receive its first shipment in the second half of this year.
Porsche never originally intended to build an RS version of its GT4 Cayman.
However, a clandestine engineering project saw a prototype built in late 2015 and early 2016.
Once upper management sampled a hand-built prototype, they gave the Porsche Cayman GT4 RS the green light.
But it didn’t come to fruition until now because of the significant engineering resources required.
“We didn’t start right away with the (Cayman GT4 RS) project,” said Mr Preuninger. “We just made people aware that we did something clandestine, without any funds, without any ‘ok’ from the higher-ups. And now here it is.”
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