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Agree with Rusnak. I must ask the following:
You buying this for resale?
(This would be my answer) Drive the piss out of it, throwing it around corners and sell it in 15 years to let someone play with it? By then I will be 71.
Say 200 lbs lighter for the R and the cost associated with it, is it that much more fun compared to an S?
I know about us old folks who likes to shake a stick while driving. I am a huge fan of PDK. My Cayman S is my first, and I am completely sold. If I didn't have other stick shift cars, I may not have gotten the PDK. That damn thing is blue tooth to my brain. It knows exactly which gear to put it in. Come to a right hang corner doing 50 mph. Slam on the brakes, turn the wheel and jam on the gas on your way of the corner. The damn thing is always in second the minute you hit that gas pedal.
Forget all the weight saving BS like we use to do to the air cool cars. Get the damn tune and add 30 hp to the car. Easier and much cheaper then pulling siht out and saving weight that way. Few thousands for the GT3 seats to save 50 lbs? Don't get me wrong, I love those ass pinchers but to get in and out of it daily? Will your wife like to get out of those damn things? For 90% of your driving, the sports seats or what ever they came with will do the trick. Sure there are moments that we all swish we had the ass pinchers to hold us up when we are pulling 1.5 G on the on ramp. Every time I go to the track w ith the Cayman, I wish I had those seats. Everyday I go and get out of that car on my hill, I thank goodness I do not have those GT3 seats. it takes a lot to get rid of 150 lbs. That's about 15-20 hp? Do the math on it.
I think you are over thinking it. Get a test drive on a S and I bet you will be really surprise on its performance. I have a 993TT and a modded 930 with 460 hp. They are both fast, but the Cayman feels just as fast under 120. 120, that's a lot of speed. It will out handle the both cars including my 1867lbs track focused / street car with 260hp screamer. Too bad you are across the country. If you are near, I loan you the Cayman for a few days and see for yourself.
Cayman's are a lot of car for the money.
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