Wow great responses.

I agree with what has been said above. I think it's fun to have a car that can stretch itself on a daily basis. Below are my thoughts based at comparing my DD and the 2.7 Cayman.

Current DD: Acura RSX Type-S 05 ( 200 hp, 143ft/lb torque )

My daily driver has a lot of power available once you get ti reved up very high. Before I got my Cayman I would generally shift at 3K rpm, very tame and I would be passed by most cars in an automatic from a dead stop. Very slowly acceleration by choice to make a smooth start. After driving the cayman I know I no longer have to keep the car running forever and can start opening it up more often by pushing it to it's real powerband of 7500-8000+ RPM. Car is unbelievably fun, just needs to be shifted down a gear to get to high revs.


Cayman 2.7

Here's the interesting thing. This car is basically a better version of my DD in everyway except for trunk space and city gas mileage. It also drives similarly in the gearing and power. For example the 2.7 feels underpowered when going 3K rpm in 5th gear. But just like my DD when downshifted to above 4K the car picks up and really beg to be pushed. I'm still in break in stages but 3rd gear at 4200 rpms is well over 100mph.


I'm hoping I'll do a full review of my cayman after a few months and do a more through comparison as I find the cars to be very similar.