Different cars, different markets. I've had three 911's, liked them all. The only one I consider a "sports car" was the '77 "S" I bought in Germany in 1981 with 25,000 klicks. No a/c (so you didn't need to tear it out), cloth interior (so you didn't need to retrofit cloth seats to keep from sliding all over the place), no sunroof (so you didn't need to cut it out, along with the tracks and mechanisms, and weld in a steel panel), no radio to speak of....pure bliss! An actual sports car!
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SC and the 996 were pimp-mobiles in comparison....also known as GTs. But guess what, the older I get the more GTs aren't that bad!
As baby boomers get older, fatter, slower, the market for GTs will continue to grow. However, I think that the 997 is a big improvement over the 996, and running contrary to the trend the 996 was setting toward an expensive, rear-engine minivan for aging, overpaid Boomers.
Regardless, the Cayman is the sports car in the P-Car family. To compare it's agility and handling with the family GT requires filters. Both are magnificant, each in their own way.
