Yahoo Autos The Porsche 718 Cayman Is an Almost-Perfect Car
Where do you go from last year's Cayman GT4, the best high-performance Porsche parts-bin special this side of a 201-mph 911 R? Apparently, Porsche thinks the answer is, "make the engine smaller." Are you kidding me?
Well, Porsche isn't kidding. The automaker is turbocharging almost everything in its lineup. And while that might be cause for concern, the latest Cayman/Boxster generation is everything you wanted to be, plus more. Interestingly, the coupé is now cheaper than the cabrio, but that hardly matters because not many people buy base Caymans anyway.
If you fork out the extra money for the bigger four-cylinder with the Sport Chrono and all the other go-fast parts, you can get a manual car that will do 177 mph, a sprint to 60 mph in just above four seconds, and torque vectoring with a mechanical differential-along with 345 horses, 310 lb.-ft. of torque, and almost zero turbo lag.
That's the 2.5-liter engine in short, but Porsche also gave the car a more direct steering rack, a stiffer, lower chassis, and an infotainment system that seems to finally work perfectly. Since the Cayman has always been the light, simple alternative to the increasingly huge and complex 911, this is still a very tempting product for all who can forget the sound of last year's Cayman. The one that didn't try to be a 718 for some twisted reason.
