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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 tab open for sudden-
ly goes on sale? Or when those late-model sneakers you have a hankering for pop up online for way too cheap? It’s that “too-good- to-be-true” feeling, the one that has you smashing the add-to-cart button — that’s 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 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 V10’s considerable power to the rear wheels only. It’s more agile, more responsive, and the stakes are higher with no all-wheel drive system to save 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
CARS
SPECS
ENGINE: POWER: PRICE:
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 exceptional car to drive
by MATT BUBBERS
IN CASE YOU HADN’T NOTICED, PORSCHE IS
a very German car company. That means when
all the bigwigs get together 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 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 four-cylinder turbocharged motor, the GTS uses a naturally aspirated flat-six. It’s an absolute peach that revs quickly to 7,000 rpm and shrieks like a race car that just escaped from the Targa Florio. Mated to an ultralight chassis, it makes for 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 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.
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