Porsche’s chief has revealed the first details of the brand’s upcoming four-cylinder engine.
Set to be utilized in future Boxster and Cayman models, the four will be a modular mill that shares a 180-degree, horizontally opposed layout with Porsche’s six-cylinder motors, company president and CEO Matthias Müller told Auto Motor und Sport.
“We will continue with the downsizing strategy and develop a new four-cylinder boxer engine, which will see service in the next-generation Boxster and Cayman,” said Müller, adding, “We will not separate ourselves from efforts to reduce CO2.”
Output for the boxer four is said to range up to 395 horsepower, presumably with the aid of one or more turbochargers. Whether it will replace or supplant the Boxster and Cayman’s current 3.4-liter flat-six, which makes 335 ponies in the Cayman GTS, is unknown.
Porsche insiders suggested last year that the boxer four’s debut was at least three years away, meaning it will likely arrive in showrooms no earlier than 2016.
A four-cylinder engine has not been part of Porsche’s lineup since the 968 was discontinued in 1995.
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