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The Truth About Cayman?
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07-21-2006, 11:45 PM
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A bit of sale talk haze there, but obviously some kernals of truth. Good stuff.
As a boxster owner, I rather enjoyed his rebutal when the interviewer called boxsters a 'chick car'. 
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07-22-2006, 12:37 AM
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I think most of the 'chick car' comments come from those who have never driven one.
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The subject of cars is one of those where every man instantly believes himself to be an expert. I had a conversation with a coworker that went something like this:
HIM: Do you know what the fakest (this is his word choice, I swear) Porsche is? The Boxster. ME: Um. How do you figure? HIM: It's just fake. It's slow, like not even a real Porsche. ME: What? The Boxster is a great car. It's not slow -- well, the first models were considered a little underpowered, but the newest 3.2 S models will give a two-year-old 911 a run for its money. Actually, the Boxster is considered the benchmark in two-seater convertibles by most automotive journalists, even by guys like Clarkson who don't even like Porsche. HIM: Oh. Really? Why do people make such bold assertions when they obviously have no idea what they are talking about? I remember when I was 18 years old, the Viper had just debuted, and a friend of mine made the auspicious claim that the Viper was the "fastest car in the world". I ran inside to get the newest issue of ROAD & TRACK as fast as I could.
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07-22-2006, 06:47 AM
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In the past week, I have seen 3 Caymans on the road. It is a beautiful car. Maybe in 10 years when they are touchable for me, I'll get one. That is after the Ariel Atom, David
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I am determined to get my hands on an Atom. I'll keep an eye out for that Atom in the SoCal area. Jay Leno has the only one in SoCal that I know of....
David
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Why can't they make them smaller? They seem big to me, standing next to one anyway. Not as big as a Carrera GT, and I never drove one, so maybe they feel smaller.
I always liked little cars, Bugs, air-cooled 911's, Speedsters, 914's. XKE's with the big hood, while a great car, you can keep if you ask me. Minis(BMC version, not BMW) Lotuses(Loti?), Datsun 510's, my list of cars to covet contains primarily compacts.
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I was once told that Volkswagen builds Porsches. "They build them side by side in the same factory. Ive been there"
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I'll argue the opposite. After seeing the Cayman for the first time, I was very underwhelmed. I'd take a year or two old Boxster S, get a hardtop, and pocket the savings.
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07-23-2006, 04:26 AM
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I like the Cayman and the new 911 as well.
The problem I have with these cars is they don't look like Porsches--they just look like your typical modern sports car. I like the old 911s which had more Porsche definition. Porsche has lost a bit of its identity trying to make their cars look modern. I suppose it's hard not to do that. One suggestion: go back to the old fender-to-fender tailight with large embedded "Porsche" letters. No mistake about that. P--O--R--S--C--H--E |
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Car and Driver likes the Cayman S better than the new M Coupe in their lastest issue.
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Incidentally, it was the same Atom I saw broken down on the 14 Freeway toward Palmdale - out in the middle of nowhere.
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1974 Porsche 911s
1987 Porsche 911 Carerra
2007 Porsche Cayman S
The Viridian Falcon
SOLD! -- The Purple Pig
SOLD! -- Mighty Mouse
SOLD!! -- Alpine Wolf
2004 Mazda Miata
