Hot Hatch to Boxster/Cayman ?

[Stuart0688]

Has anyone come from a hot hatch (Megane RS, Civic Type R etc) to a Boxster or Cayman ?

Did you regret the move ? Miss the practicality of the hatch back ?

I'd also like to hear opinions of people who have Non S models, as this is what I'm considering in the future. PDK probably

Thanks

[Stuart0688]

BubblesNW said:

The non S is a great car. Moving from a hot hatch to a Cayman will be a revelation. Don't try the S as you will be corrupted and sell a kidney.

I really didn't want to hear this lol. Coming from a 198bhp Civic Type R, I hoped a non S model would be good. At the moment I drive the Civic fairly hard and feel I'm using most of it's potential, surely another 65hp would still be fun ?

I was hoping maybe my partner would get a sensible car if I bought a Porsche. At the moment she has a Mini Cooper S, which is probably less space than a Cayman !

Has anyone got any long term real MPG figures ? Over 9500 miles on my trip meter, the Type R did 29.5mpg

[Stuart0688]

kingston12 said:

Stuart0688 said:

I really didn't want to hear this lol. Coming from a 198bhp Civic Type R, I hoped a non S model would be good. At the moment I drive the Civic fairly hard and feel I'm using most of it's potential, surely another 65hp would still be fun ?

I was hoping maybe my partner would get a sensible car if I bought a Porsche. At the moment she has a Mini Cooper S, which is probably less space than a Cayman !

Has anyone got any long term real MPG figures ? Over 9500 miles on my trip meter, the Type R did 29.5mpg

My 2005S does well over 30mpg on the motorway, more like 20 around town and less if having a bit of fun. I reckon the Porsche is 10-15% more thirsty than the Civic like for like.

I am sure you will find both the standard car and the S more fun than the Civic. I liked the straight line acceleration of the Civic, but not the steering or the handling particularly. The Boxster is just much better in those areas.

The other thing which I loved and hated about the Civic was the need to really wring it's neck to get to the power. Keeping in the VTEC zone at 6k-8.5k revs is great fun when you are out for a weekend drive with no other cars about, but a bit of a pain if you need to do a quick overtake on your daily commute.

The Boxster still has an engine that you need to work properly to get to the power, but not at quite such high a rev range and there is a reasonable amount of power on tap much earlier for day-to-day driving.

Thank you this was really helpful. I do enjoy wringing the Civic engine, so was hoping the 2.7 engine would suit me