| In comparison of the engine, The Porsche Cayman is | | | | huge number of new and unique parts. In short, the |
| positioned between the Boxster and 911. Still, it has its | | | | Cayman is a structure two and a half times stiffer |
| own different personality. It is snappier, easier, and not | | | | because it's just a Boxster with a roof. In turn, that |
| burdened by heavy weight hanging out the back and | | | | means that the driving experience becomes much |
| the need to manage the effect of that weight. | | | | more focused because its suspension can have tauter, |
| The Cayman is strictly a two-seater because the | | | | sportier setting. |
| engine sits where the rear seats would otherwise be. | | | | Porsche Cayman reaches a maximum speed of 275 |
| This means that the engine is not quite readily | | | | km/h and gets from zero to 100 km/h in 5.3 seconds, |
| accessible, although there's a way into the oil filler via | | | | even if the fuel thirst is low for such pace. The |
| the boot. Under that long tailgate, is revealed a | | | | Cayman is especially good with the optional Porsche |
| generous luggage area to supplement the front 911 | | | | Active Suspension Management (PASM), but unlike a |
| Boxster-sized boot. Like all other Porsche, the Cayman | | | | 911, it works well enough without it, thanks to a ride |
| is not very big, which makes it very practical and | | | | that's firm but seldom turbulent. PASM makes the |
| usable. And for all its obvious Boxster genes, the | | | | Cayman sit 10mm lower, and in its Sport mode it |
| Cayman is very much its own car with its curvaceous | | | | tautens the damping. And it feels absolutely fantastic |
| rear wings and neat fastback roof. As with other | | | | when you have the Chrono option (complete with |
| Porsches, there's a movable rear spoiler, which | | | | stopwatch for timing your hot laps). |
| deploys above 120km/h. | | | | Bottom line, Porsche Cayman is a remarkable |
| Going back to were we started, the engine, the | | | | illustration of a rigid, solid-roofed bodyshell's advantages. |
| Cayman has 3.4 litres, a mix of the cylinder barrels of | | | | The Cayman S has all the positive Porsche attributes |
| a 911 with the crankshaft of a Boxster. A 911 engine is | | | | you could want, and none of the snags. It's not the |
| of 3.6 or 3.8 liters and a Boxster S has a 3.2-litre | | | | fastest Porsche, not the fiercest, not the most |
| engine. It's a strange thing, but even though today's | | | | breathtaking. It is a pooling of other Porsche parts, |
| Porsche engines are water-cooled, they still overlay | | | | which means that the Cayman is not expensive to |
| their intake and exhaust notes with a breathy whine | | | | develop but it will generate big profits. The new car, by |
| like that of the giant air-cooling fans of old. | | | | the way, takes its name not from a tax-haven |
| Basically, the Cayman is a mix and it doesn't have a | | | | archipelago, but from a type of crocodile. |