Just appeared in the classifieds on the official Porsche site is an ex press demo car. Spec sounds hardcore with no aircon, no radio, colour to sample green (no pictures yet - I would guess at Viper), manual with short shift, sports exhaust, lightweight battery, ceramic brakes, leaather dash and nothing else.

Probably the purest Cayman R spec I have seen; I just couldn't live with it myself. No doubt there will be a massochist along in a minute to say different....

My thoughts exactly on the likely fanbase. It's at OPC Colchester, with regard to the colour, Peridot usually comes up as a standard colour, this is paint to sample.

Hi Mike,

Not as bad as I was led to believe. It was a whole day last Friday, plenty of red flags due to breakdowns or spins but driving standards were generally fine. The Melbourne loop ruins the flow of the circuit imho as it's just point and squirt.

Some interesting cars including a 458 Corsa running 4k rpm max due to noise and not needing to brake on some of the tighter corners - the old hairpin amongst others.

Some of the Caterfield Sevens were quick as were the Cossies in a straight line. One did a barrel roll which certainly ruined their day.

How was Monday evening?

Darren

Wasn't that lightweight battery a £1k+ option? Do those things even work in cold weather?

I've driven that car, whilst on a photo shoot with GT Purely Porsche.
At the time she had around 2k miles and had a very annoying squeak/rattle from the back of the car, she did seem to.be leading a rather tough life at the hands of journos.
I was very impressed with the ability of the R but came to the conclusion that maybe it was a little too good, ie possibly a little boring. I was not that impressed with the short shift box, brakes were absolutely fantastic and the PSE sounded fab though.

If it's got a nice fat warranty, it drives OK and the price is right...

But wouldn't fancy it out of warranty. You can be confident it's been mercilessly ragged from stone cold on a routine basis.

That'll be older M97 engines, not the DFI lump. And I can't see that thrashing a cold engine is ever good. At the very least, you're risking cracked heads at low miles. That would be my main fear.

Well within warranty, very light weight, it is quite the bargain at under £40k. They are fetching much more than this at the moment.

Already had 12k plus hard miles. I think you would have to be willing to take the risk of future unreliability to save £10k on a similarly specced car at Reading with 8k less miles and aircon.

The white one at Tonbridge has all the weight put back in with navigation, Bose, telephone, air conditioning and SPORTS EXHAUST. It's a manual and all that additional weight can saved by the driver going to the gym