JayEmm Drives the 987 Cayman S

Cayman S Sport to be precise. He really did like it, as he did the regular Cayman S and R.

A quick check on Autotrader and appears to be only one Sport for sale currently, for £24k with the wrong wheels, and in boring silver. Although it does have low miles - you wouldn't expect bore score at 36,000 anyway would you?

The problem being that money gets you into a 987.2 Cayman S, and if you get unlucky with the 987.1 Sport then you'll end up wishing you'd bought either a 987.2 S or R in the first place.

Not hating on the car though, very exclusive, very appealing, an orange Sport with a Hartech rebuild would be a great buy at the right price.

As much as you would or wouldn't expect it at 63,000, really. There are examples of scoring from as little as 10-15k miles. I had one years ago that was replaced under warranty by Porsche at 40k. Scoring was quite advanced by then as it was tapping and it would definitely have been scored at 36,000.

Maybe most of them score with higher miles than 36,000. But, really, they're a fairly significant risk at any miles in factory spec. On the balance of likelihoods, if you pulled that 36,000 mile engine and tore it down, you'd probably find at least some evidence of either scoring or the piston coating beginning to break down (which is what happens first) on cylinders five or six, though you might still be 10s of thousands of miles from really obvious symptoms like tapping and acute need of a rebuild.

I find him unwatchable. Wittering on... I'm sure he's a nice chap but he has more waffle than birds eyes.

Now £710!

Or £735 for the tiptronic (I didn't even know there was a tiptronic Sport).

I like his stuff, one of the only youtubers i can actually sit and watch the whole thing without skipping forwards.

Oh and the Cayman is a great little sports car and I loved driving mine. Great as a Cayman is though its not a 911 and there really is something about a 911 that makes it feel better? And that isn't anything to do with how good it is to drive because my Cayman R was fantastic, but good as it was there was always the feeling that i would eventually get another 911, now I have a 911 again I don't feel the need to one day get another Cayman.

When I say little I mean that it feels small and compact when you drive it, it's the perfect size to thread through tight twisty roads or mountain passes, i don't use the term in a derogatory fashion at all, brilliant cars!

The daytime lights as far as i know were just the lower little lights in the front bumpers that look like they should be fog lights but are in fact daylight running lights, I certainly I don't remember the tail lights being illuminated unless the lights were actively switched on though.

Same. I’m sure he’s a nice bloke, but his prattling on is tiresome. Also, in a Clarkson-esque manner, he avoids technical chit chat - which is fine, many find that very dull; but unlike JC, he never manages to really get the personality of the cars across.

As such, he just comes across as a bit of an over-opinionated chap with very little worth listening to.

There’s far worse car YTers out there, of course - but there are hundreds more that I actually learn/take something away from watching. Not just a bloke testing out a mate’s car and pretending his opinion is authoritative.

I normally avoid YT because the videos are generally too long, with ages of intro and too much filling before reaching a conclusion. I thought that if the OP had taken the trouble to share the link, it might be worth a look.

Nope. Okay maybe if you know nothing about Porsche but otherwise just the predictable outcome. Some of the photography quite good, but not the interior sequences of the bloke driving obvs.

That's a big jump. Unjustified

I quite like him. Granted his style can niggle at times but I think he researches well and generally gets it right.. ( having owned Evora and Cayman I concur with his reviews )

Re the Cayman they're cracking cars. I owned a modded 987.1s which was truly fabulous and half the price of an R. Buy a gen 1 with a rebuilt engine and you've got a cracking base for a hot rod..

Having fitted all the right bits to mine, the only thing I craved was just a little bit more power. I toyed with a 3.9L conversion from Hartech but it was almost the value of the car which I struggled to come to terms with.. As a result I sold it an bought an Evora Sport410, ( which was also great )..

Having recently sold an Exige I'm currently sitting in a train station on my way to view a 981 GT4. A tantalising prospect and I hope Jayemms review was once again accurate..