GTS4.0 build slot lead times 2022
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Ordered in August last year, looking at an estimated May 22 delivery to dealer, but whom knows! The Specification is yet to be locked!
Interesting chat around end of supply, if Porsche plan to dis-continue end of 2023 then we are only around 12 months away from the order books being closed?
Interesting chat around end of supply, if Porsche plan to dis-continue end of 2023 then we are only around 12 months away from the order books being closed?
Well , mine arrived yesterday , broadly on time. Has actually been in the UK for a week with it taking the extra time to arrive on the Isle of Man. Just waiting for the PPF to be done now before collection.
Windy_Miller
Guest of the Club
Woohoo 
how exciting for you Neil, great news
how exciting for you Neil, great news
I’ve just heard today that my car is being ‘held’ in production at the moment and now expected at the dealer the third week in April, rather than last week of March. The reason I was given was ongoing issues with the supply of semiconductors, while other lines are being directly affected by supply issues caused by the conflict in Ukraine eg wiring looms for the Macan.
Mine was originally 17 Feb completion for end of Feb delivery to the dealer. This then seemed to slip a few weeks to March as the car appeared to be ' stuck in paint' according to the build log. Next thing I knew, it was on the boat to Grimsby 2 weeks earlier than the last scheduled delivery date. A similar thing happened with a colleagues GT3 this year. Hopefully your cars arrive pretty close to the expected times.
Thanks Peter.
I always liked the orange / green 987.1 Cayman Sport special editions and so with my first new Porsche purchase, wanted something similar. Previous Caymans have been basalt black , then guards red so bright green is the next logical step of course!
Looking forward to getting it next week once the PPF is done.
Neil
I always liked the orange / green 987.1 Cayman Sport special editions and so with my first new Porsche purchase, wanted something similar. Previous Caymans have been basalt black , then guards red so bright green is the next logical step of course!
Looking forward to getting it next week once the PPF is done.
Neil
Chris Simon Head
PCGB Member
I put a deposit on a Cayman 718 GTS 4.0 in mid August 2021. By December there were 6 people ahead of me in the queue. My OPC called at the beginning of April to say the person ahead of me had dropped out, so I could have that build slot allocation. I am now wondering when the actual build date will be, given all the problems of supply and reports of factory closures.
If they have a slot they can tell you the currently scheduled build date.
Chris Simon Head
PCGB Member
Perhaps I should have said a 'build slot allocation'. No date yet . . .
Chris,
I think you are just on the Centre’s list.
By way of example, in Christmas week I was offered a February build slot. I said “Yes”, trot round to Centre, we put a configuration into the system, I pay the deposit and a couple of weeks later I finalise the configuration. Then as of the date the system required the configuration to be locked (in my case it was January 20) the system spits out a confirmed (but estimated) build schedule thru to delivery to the centre.
My build started one week late, the build is normally one week, and the rest is logistics which in my case recovered the delay in starting.
Centres get build slots maybe quarterly so have a list of expressions of intent that they assign build slots as they become available. I have been asked only once for a deposit to go on a list of those who have expressed an interest, but declined to do that.
Perhaps your Centre might tell you when they expect to have an actual build slot for you.
Good luck.
I think you are just on the Centre’s list.
By way of example, in Christmas week I was offered a February build slot. I said “Yes”, trot round to Centre, we put a configuration into the system, I pay the deposit and a couple of weeks later I finalise the configuration. Then as of the date the system required the configuration to be locked (in my case it was January 20) the system spits out a confirmed (but estimated) build schedule thru to delivery to the centre.
My build started one week late, the build is normally one week, and the rest is logistics which in my case recovered the delay in starting.
Centres get build slots maybe quarterly so have a list of expressions of intent that they assign build slots as they become available. I have been asked only once for a deposit to go on a list of those who have expressed an interest, but declined to do that.
Perhaps your Centre might tell you when they expect to have an actual build slot for you.
Good luck.
Electric 718 is still years away. Absolutely no chance it will go on sale before 2024. 2025 more likely.
I think they'll string the current car out until then. Quite unusual. It's already a pretty old car already - 10 years, given it's a facelift of the 981 from 2012. Emissions issues aside, not sure if there are cost implications of keeping an old architecture alive. Cayster used to be largely the same car as contemporary 911, which made for nice cost savings. But 992 is out on its own, currently.
Might start getting expensive to support the current 718 in production. Even so, still don't see them ceasing sales of 718 in UK this year. Reckon it'll last through 2023 at the very least.
Few more specials to come. A proper lightweight, maybe Cayman R Mark II, would be nice.
I think they'll string the current car out until then. Quite unusual. It's already a pretty old car already - 10 years, given it's a facelift of the 981 from 2012. Emissions issues aside, not sure if there are cost implications of keeping an old architecture alive. Cayster used to be largely the same car as contemporary 911, which made for nice cost savings. But 992 is out on its own, currently.
Might start getting expensive to support the current 718 in production. Even so, still don't see them ceasing sales of 718 in UK this year. Reckon it'll last through 2023 at the very least.
Few more specials to come. A proper lightweight, maybe Cayman R Mark II, would be nice.
The key issue is Euro 7, which is currently predicted to be sometime in 2025 for new type approvals and maybe a year later for new registrations.
Brian_Innes
Member
pothole said:
The prospect of Porsche revisiting the Cayman R concept again would, for me particularly, be the only attraction likely to persuade me to return to the Porsche fold since moving on to the Alpine A110.
Electric Caymans hold no such attraction for me.
If I were privy to Porsche R&D, I would support the launch of a stripped-down, lighter, run-out model 718 Cayman R using the previously dismissed 2.5t GTS 365 bhp PDK platform with -20mm Sports PASM and the optional wider 5-spoke alloy wheels. Having owned this model in the past, I can verify its GT4-matching pace and sublime chassis poise. If such a car were to be re-launched, it would not conflict with the current 4.0L models in my opinion, and would be a fitting conclusion to this much maligned 2.5t power unit which in my opinion had further development potential. Other than that albeit unlikely development, I fear Porsche has lost it for me.
Brian
Please, not the bloody flat four! And not PDK! 
Fortunately, I think they'll want to maximise RoI on the 4.0 engine, so if they do a lightweight, think it will have that engine. I can't see them doing a special with the F4T, thank goodness. Sorry, it's such a horrible engine. Not just the noise, which is awful. But the turbo power delivery and elastic throttle response. The NA F6 is just so, so much nicer, more precise, builds to a more satisfying crescendo, and sounds so much better.
Honestly, I'd rather have the F6 with 250hp than the F4T with 400hp or more.
Fortunately, I think they'll want to maximise RoI on the 4.0 engine, so if they do a lightweight, think it will have that engine. I can't see them doing a special with the F4T, thank goodness. Sorry, it's such a horrible engine. Not just the noise, which is awful. But the turbo power delivery and elastic throttle response. The NA F6 is just so, so much nicer, more precise, builds to a more satisfying crescendo, and sounds so much better.
Honestly, I'd rather have the F6 with 250hp than the F4T with 400hp or more.
Windy_Miller
Guest of the Club
Finally received notification from Porsche HQ this week that my ‘order’ placed in December with east London OPC is now in their system and at ‘stage 1’. I guess stage 2 is allocation of a build slot? 
still it’s progress at last
still it’s progress at last
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