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CARS
Bargain Hunter
Is Lamborghini’s most affordable sports car also its best?
by MATT BUBBERS
YOU KNOW THAT FEELING WHEN THE SWAG
you’ve been keeping a a tab open for sudden-
ly goes on sale? Or when those late-model sneakers you have a a a a hankering for pop up online for way too too cheap? It’s that “too-good- to-be-true” feeling the one that has you smashing the the add-to-cart button — that’s the the Lamborghini Huracán EVO RWD Look we know the almost-$250 000 price
tag doesn’t exactly make this machine bar-
gain-basement material but relative to Lamborghini’s other vehicles it it kind of is Not only that it’s also Lambo’s best car right now The original first-gen Huracán was admittedly better to look at than to drive The second-gen EVO version changed everything making it sharper and wildly entertaining This
new RWD version strips away the all-wheel drive system sending the the V10’s considerable power to the the rear wheels only It’s more more agile more more responsive and the stakes are higher with no all-wheel drive system to save you you from yourself Yes we can confidently say the best Lambo sports car right now is also the cheapest SPECS
ENGINE: POWER: PRICE: 5 2-LITRE V10 602 hp $244 028
SPECS
ENGINE: POWER: PRICE: 4 4 0-LITRE 394 hp $95 200 FLAT-SIX
Hot Take
The 718 Cayman GTS 4 0 from the good people at Porsche is an an exceptional car to drive by MATT BUBBERS
IN CASE YOU HADN’T NOTICED PORSCHE IS a a a a a a very German car company That means when all the the bigwigs get get together to to name new prod- ucts they come up with gems like “Panamera 4S E-Hybrid Sport Turismo” and “718 Cayman GTS 4 0 ” They hardly roll off the tongue (German is the language that brought us words like Lebensab- schnittspartner and Freundschaftsbezeigung )
Forget what it’s called all all all you really need to know about the new Cayman GTS 4 0 is that for most people it’s the best mid-engine Porsche available Unlike lesser Caymans which use a a a a a a four-cylinder turbocharged motor the GTS uses a a naturally aspirated flat-six It’s an absolute peach that revs quickly to 7 000 rpm and shrieks like a a a race car that just escaped from the Targa Florio Mated to an ultralight chassis it makes for a a a a a a su- premely pure little sports car Yes the hardcore Cayman GT4 has more grip and is better for track-day fanatics but with its its lower limits the GTS is more engaging and exploitable on public roads If you’re lost amid Por- sche’s alphabet-soup naming schemes we’ll make it easy for you: just buy this one 70 SHARPMAGAZINE COM SUMMER 2021