Cayman GTS

[bungle]

What's the espresso leather like in the real world? Espresso to me means "brown", but this looks purple (might be my eyesight / laptop screen!).

GT Silver plus a non-black interior sounds good to me.



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[Mario149]

bungle said:

What's the espresso leather like in the real world? Espresso to me means "brown", but this looks purple (might be my eyesight / laptop screen!).

GT Silver plus a non-black interior sounds good to me.



http://locator.porsche.com/ipl-customer/ipl/detail...

Not seen it on a a GTS but have seen it on other models, really liked it. White paint with espresso is the sort of colour combo I'd order on a non-GT/GTS type car where there is no special interior available. Quite often for the 991.1 generation I found myself looking at a minimal options Carrera in that scheme and idly wondering....

[PhantomPH]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but nice all the same.

https://www.goodwood.com/grrc/road/the-goodwood-te...

[dreamcar]

bungle said:

What's the espresso leather like in the real world? Espresso to me means "brown", but this looks purple (might be my eyesight / laptop screen!).

GT Silver plus a non-black interior sounds good to me.



http://locator.porsche.com/ipl-customer/ipl/detail...

Espresso leather is a much higher standard hide than the normal leather, it really is very nice indeed - in anything bar a GTS model which really should have the unique leather / alcantara trim to differentiate from normal versions and emphasise the sporty theme.

Espresso looks great with either white or (in my opinion) even better with GT silver.

[NBTBRV8]

PhantomPH said:

Not sure if this has been posted before, but nice all the same.

https://www.goodwood.com/grrc/road/the-goodwood-te...

“For sure, and that one specifically,” pointing to a metallic blue Cayman GTS with PCCB brakes, the optional Sports Chassis and a manual transmission"

[AndyCGTS]

PhantomPH said:

The one for £75k seems a touch optimistic. I know it has PCCB and more pricey seats, but is that really worth £10k more than a similar mileage 2015 car??

I've had a simlar offer one mine, I'd assume its the options that bump the price up heavily. Its good news overall of the GTS so far but I question will be how long its going to last for? It's also good for trade in as it means a few years free motoring more or less.

[bungle]

dreamcar said:

bungle said:

What's the espresso leather like in the real world? Espresso to me means "brown", but this looks purple (might be my eyesight / laptop screen!).

GT Silver plus a non-black interior sounds good to me.



http://locator.porsche.com/ipl-customer/ipl/detail...

Espresso leather is a much higher standard hide than the normal leather, it really is very nice indeed - in anything bar a GTS model which really should have the unique leather / alcantara trim to differentiate from normal versions and emphasise the sporty theme.

Espresso looks great with either white or (in my opinion) even better with GT silver.

Bizarre how seeing espresso on a different monitor renders it a very different colour. More brown (as I would expect), as opposed to more purple on my laptop screen!

Unrelated, but prices seem all over the place, even as Porsche approved (where I would expect it to be more standard). For manuals anyway, the 4 on offer range from £59k to £73k. Yes, the cheapest has got 10k miles on it (but still not a lot of miles!), so I guess I put the rest of the difference down to options? I struggle to work out what a good price is, and why they are so different.

[Twinfan]

PCCBs seem to command a premium, mileage makes a big difference in price and PDK seems more popular than manual as it was when the cars were ordered. There were a large number of options available and all cars can vary a lot. The more expensive cars in general have more options ticked, so it's up to you if they're worth it.

I also think the asking price is higher if it's a neutral spec and close to the GTS concept. For example, there was a white car for sale recently with a full red leather interior, That one was around £60k from memory. I think it would have been priced higher if it had the alcantara interior as it was a nice spec.

[JayK12]

Twinfan said:

PCCBs seem to command a premium, mileage makes a big difference in price and PDK seems more popular than manual as it was when the cars were ordered. There were a large number of options available and all cars can vary a lot. The more expensive cars in general have more options ticked, so it's up to you if they're worth it.

I also think the asking price is higher if it's a neutral spec and close to the GTS concept. For example, there was a white car for sale recently with a full red leather interior, That one was around £60k from memory. I think it would have been priced higher if it had the alcantara interior as it was a nice spec.

Anything with Ceramics and it commands alot more. A BGTS just went up for 72K 2015 6K miles. Spec is the usual plus Ceramics, so I don't understand why its so expensive. Same price as the equivalent CGTS.

[Twinfan]

It's a less common option and the OPCs are probably trying it on as a reason to make more money! Yes it was a £5k option but it's generally not worth that extra on resale.

[bungle]

Bizarelly, talking of prices all over the place, OPC Notts have put up the price of their Cayman GTS from £59k to £62k today!

[paul789]

Yup, prices are strong. Have been offered just shy of 61 for mine.

[Twinfan]

Only one under £60k now, and that has 30,000m on it. Prices are very strong indeed and seem to be tracking the GT4 as expected.

[bungle]

So strong that an OPC puts the price UP when it doesn't sell at a lower price! That's bullish pricing. "It didn't sell because it was too cheap!".

[PhantomPH]

bungle said:

So strong that an OPC puts the price UP when it doesn't sell at a lower price! That's bullish pricing. "It didn't sell because it was too cheap!".

Suppose that depends on how long they have had it up for sale. If it went up on Tuesday for £59k and they change it to £62k on Wednesday, that's a bit different to those times when a car has sat unsold for 3 months and THEn gets put up in price.

All depends on what the story actually is - could it not also be SOR and the seller has had a bunch of offers so is trying to cash in thinking it's popular?

[Twinfan]

Also getting towards Spring, more cars have come up for sale at a higher price and so the OPC has adjusted the price in line with others on the market.

[C4ym4n_GTS]

bungle said:

Bizarelly, talking of prices all over the place, OPC Notts have put up the price of their Cayman GTS from £59k to £62k today!

As it happens currently working about a mile away from OPC Notts, might call in there one lunch with mine to see what they have to say

While I'm here, started doing a few motorway miles and noticed I'm forever getting tyre pressure warnings pop up on the dash, only about 0.2/0.3 down but seems to be every other week... bought one of those digital tyre inflators to assist with the inflating but wondering if anyone else is/has experienced this or is something wrong with my tyres/valves?

[bcr5784]

C4ym4n_GTS said:

As it happens currently working about a mile away from OPC Notts, might call in there one lunch with mine to see what they have to say

While I'm here, started doing a few motorway miles and noticed I'm forever getting tyre pressure warnings pop up on the dash, only about 0.2/0.3 down but seems to be every other week... bought one of those digital tyre inflators to assist with the inflating but wondering if anyone else is/has experienced this or is something wrong with my tyres/valves?

Could be just the cold weather - my aftermarket ones on my 981 have done so a couple of times on cold days, and you can see that the pressure is a pound or two down. Warning disappears after a few miles when the tyres warm up a tad. Unless you are going to reset pressures every time this happens, I'd personally reset the monitoring level - assuming you can do that on the Porsche (for example on my Seat I'd just set the monitor on a cold day). Clearly you don't want to overdo it, but if you are sensible you can circumvent spurious warnings.

[Dreds]

As soon as the outside temperature drops below freezing I get random TPM warnings on the first start up.

[JasonSteel]

have used mine a bit over the cold season and haven't seen any warnings as yet.