is this cayman reasonably priced?

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Cayman S 981
2014 42,000 miles
Metallic Silver
20" 991 Turbo Alloys
PDK, Bose, PASM, PSE, Nav, Bluetooth

List price: £40,000

Can't for the life of me find one that well specced, but the mileage is putting me off. Others around it have 25k miles but less spec.

Edited by Crispystork on Friday 16th November 09:07

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anonymous said:

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A 718 is completely out of the question for me. If i wanted a 4 pot engine I'd go for a Golf R or Audi S3. You can try and pretend a 4 pot engine sounds nice but it'll never be as nice as a 6 cylinder. I'm driving a V8 at the moment for gods sake.

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anonymous said:

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Glad you agree about the 4 pots. I had a TTS before and whilst a great car and very quick, just didn't "feel" like a sports car.

Pros to my V8: the sound.. oh the sound (i have straight through pipes), the power is similar to any other flat engine, it comes in around 4k+ revs, not to mention its 444 bhp NA.

Cons to the V8: The engine is heavy as fk. The only thing it's good at is going in a straight line. It's a muscle car, not a sports car. VERY sluggish at 1-3k revs. MPG sucks balls.

This is going a bit off topic anyways but I'm gonna try and get the cayman down to 38k from 40k. Plus a warranty.

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You guys think 37k is a reasonable offer then? The 40k is the list price.

Johnniem said:

OP, out of interest, is it the spec or the model that interests you? You could grab a beautiful 987.2 S for around the £27k mark (subject to offers) with similar mileage and turbo wheels, PDK, flappy paddle sports steering wheel, Sports chrono plus (mental!) package etc etc. Feel free to pm me since you don't allow emails.

I don't like the 987 body, especially the spoiler. It just looks out dated. The 3 main things I want spec wise is BOSE (i like music), PSE and the 3.4 S model. Alloys i dont give a crap because i'm thinking of going aftermarket anyway.

beanoir said:

Is it for sale at a main dealer OPC, specialist or a private sale?

If that's an OPC car, probably about right these days, about 5k too rich if it's a private sale.

Having said that, it's not a particularly desirable colour, the mileage is quite high and the spec isn't that exciting. For me to be interested the price would have to be lower but only because i'm putting a discount on it for being rather bland spec.

The prices for 981 GTS with reasonable mileage is c.£55-60k depending on spec, so maybe £40k is a bargain for an S...

On balance, I think you could find a better car for the money.

It's a regular dealer but the cheapest car they have is 30k.. they are a specialist performance car dealer..

It doesnt help that on Autotrader right now in the UK there are only 25x 981 S for sale.

I'm going to offer 37k based on the mileage.

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Johnniem said:

As can that on the 987 but it's not really visible from inside the car. Maybe I am just not accelerating hard enough!

Like you said before mate, its the look from the outside .. i'm never looking behind me when flooring it anyway

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Johnniem said:

It's the other way around for me. I first fell in love with the 987 Cayman because of the curvy rear end. The 981 became less curvy and more slab sided. The one thing we have in common is that we both know that the car, in whatever iteration, is truly superb as a drivers car. I hope you enjoy whichever 981 you choose.

Thanks mate. I wonder if there are any porsche meets in Yorkshire...