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Drive them both and buy the one you like best. They are both great cars and if you make your decision based on what is most important to you, you shouldn't have any regrets.[/quote]
BT is right, you have to drive them both and feel the difference for yourself. I just think it is also kind of neat to have a newly desinged firstyear Porsche. You could always lease for 3 and then decide?
It will depend some on what you want to do with the car - will it be a daily driver, or a weekend car? Street and/or autocross and/or track? Do you value brute acceleration over cornering and balance?
I'm moving from a 996 turbo to a Cayman because I like to autocross, and the turbo is a frustrating car to autocross... surreal on the track, and and ridiculous crossing the Nevada desert on Hwy 50 last summer, well into triple digits, but frustrating to autocross. The Cayman will solve that and be almost as much fun on the track.
Both will give you a great driving experience. I agree with Alan, drive them both and make the decision that way.
brad
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Motocayman, you are not alone. I offer you this, learned from much suffering and agony. Only a back to back extended test drive will help if you are the rational type. If you're like me (I work in a creative field, meaning that I'm basically irrational), keep reading. There is no simple answer, other than to realize that you can always buy/lease one now, and trade it for the other later. Presto! Assuming you are not 75 years old, or in questionable health, and you can afford either car now, then likely you'll be able to absorb the hit to swap cars in a couple years if you change your mind.... For example, last year, I bought a new 997 911 S. It was my first Porsche, I don't belong to PCA, PGA, or the PTA. I was simply responding to the 997's headlamps (I despised the 996 headlamps). Because it was during the bitter cold of a midwestern winter (key factor to story), I wasn't able to drive 997 S much (450 miles), and when I did, it was dull break-in driving, but it sure looked great in the garage, yes it did. I was stunned with my brilliant purchase. People were looking at it constantly (it had just hit the showroom floor, mine was the first I'd seen on the road). My neighbors loved it. My wife loved it. My 545i hated it. However, as the winter wore on, I began to feel that I'd bought the car on a whim (I did. It was my wife's idea. She despised my S54 M Coupe). Then I began to feel guilty about spending so much money on a car (yes it can happen), when I already owned a very nice car that was free and clear, as had been the M Coupe. I'm thinking, people in the world are starving. Soldiers are dying, I'm just spending. As a coffin nail, the 997 had not one, but two rattles (dash, and door)! It was also sans many options that I would have liked to have ordered, so I sold it back to the dealer, ate the loss, and figured I was done with Porsches forever. That lasted ten months or so, and I went back to the dealer and ordered a new 911S with every go fast goodie I could find (except the Aero Kit). It was 131K before tax. I was extremely stoked... for a couple days, anyway. Until sanity prevailed and I revamped the whole order. Now it's a Cayman S. I rationalized not buying the 911, which to me is beautiful, like this....although it is only 5K less expensive than my first 997 911 S, my new Cayman is 40K less than the Uber X-51 911 S I was going to buy. Both spec'd PCCB. EVERYONE says this 986 S7C is the best driving Porsche ever. But honestly, also a bit less beautiful, and less rapid than the 911. You WILL notice the weight hanging off the rear axle on the 911 (unless you're a zombie), and I didn't like that bit of the family heritage. I liken it to a sporting motorcycle with a shaft drive. So, the day I feel that my ideally balanced Cayman is getting too sluggish, and the Car Devil on my shoulder says: "should have bought a 997 S, dork", I'll send the little Cayman to Ruf in Dallas. I visualize that if I'm able (as in still alive and not destitute), I might slide into the next gen 911, the 998 one day. Finally, I'd say that the only way to get it all wrong is to try and rationalize spending that much money on yourself, and wind up never owning either one. Life is very short, and as you get older it goes by more quickly, so don't waste a moment.
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You know the question you ask is sort of like going to a Chicago Cubs website asking which baseball team is better the Sox or the Cubs and even though the Sox just won the pennant, fans will tell you the Cubs are the best or only team in baseball. [img]/fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/MWPX/confused_smile.gif[/img]
That aside, I think most people here will tell you that you should drive both as well as other cars you might be interested in, figure out what you want, figure out what you want to spend and then buy accordingly. The great news is no matter what you choose in the sports car segment over $50k you are bound to get a pretty good car that is fun to drive. There is no right or wrong, only what is right for you right now.
This optional package is a valuable addition for trackday use. Available in conjunction with the CDR-24 CD radio, it includes a swivel-mounted analog and digital timer unit which is centrally located on the dashboard. All functions are easily accessible via the control stalk for the on-board computer. Analog dials measure hours, minutes and seconds, while a separate digital field displays whole seconds, tenths and one hundredths of a second. A second digital display runs in parallel in the instrument cluster. Click this Link to visit the FAQ entry for Sport Chrono.
I was first going with the Basalt black or Artic silver, but my local sales manager recommended regular black. He had seen all three colors and thinks that the regular black is dead sexy. I am a huge black fan. It will be a pain to keep it clean, but it's worth the trouble. What specs did you go with?
