Jetpilot

This subject genuinely interests me as i am in exactly the same camp as you, i have absolutely no doubt the Cayman is the better car, infact any Porsche i have been in and or driven is a great drive, but they do absolutely nothing for me, curious as to why as even i have no idea

So why dont you buy a comfortable, economical and practical saloon and be done with it then? You may disagree but the point of 2 seat sportscars is to give a sporty and involving drive, this is something that the Cayman and GT86 both do better than a 370, the Cayman can do continents just as easily as well. And theres no denying that the Cayman and GT86 are direct competition for the 370 - the Cayman is £2K more than the Nismo 370, the GT86 is £2K less than the "normal" 370 and they are both impractical, driving focused vehicles, you cant say they arent competition because they do stuff better. The Zed might be absolutely perfect for what you want, but for an "average" buyer you will probably find that the 86 and Cayman are better received, hence Harris's review findings. So why dont you buy a comfortable, economical and practical saloon and be done with it then? You may disagree but the point of 2 seat sportscars is to give a sporty and involving drive, this is something that the Cayman and GT86 both do better than a 370, the Cayman can do continents just as easily as well. And theres no denying that the Cayman and GT86 are direct competition for the 370 - the Cayman is £2K more than the Nismo 370, the GT86 is £2K less than the "normal" 370 and they are both impractical, driving focused vehicles, you cant say they arent competition because they do stuff better. The Zed might be absolutely perfect for what you want, but for an "average" buyer you will probably find that the 86 and Cayman are better received, hence Harris's review findings. I didnt suggest they werent better or a more sporty or involving drive, i just suggested (reading between the lines) the Zed is perhaps a happy medium between between sporty and involving and real time road driving and in reality if i wanted an all out 2 seater sports car for an "involving and sporty drive" i would not have a zed, cayman or gt86 As with the Astra thread, there are better cars than the both Zeds, there is no denying it, but it doesnt mean because there are better at a particular trait its the only car to choose Also he wasnt testing against a Nismo 370z so whether its £2k less than a base unspecced Cayman is neither here nor there! All depends on what priority which boxes are the most important to tick.

I will echo a lot of the other comments, i think his reviews are good, he comes across as a petrolhead and we can relate to how he drives, but he is a massive Porsche fan boy, no problem with that by the way each to their own, but he is very biased towards them. If driving was as you saw in the review you probably would have a gt86 or cayman but in reality when do we ever get to drive like that and if you do on a regular basis, your either very fortunate to have the roads you can do that on or your taking risks, not a good idea. There is a time and place and invariable these days its not on the road. Lets get another scenario going here, your out for a drive, a vast majority of that time you will encounter traffic you want to get pass, 110lb of torque and 200 ish bhp is going to get you nowhere fast, now which car would he prefer to be driving, a gutless fine handling chassis gt86 or something which can you make headway in, safe in the knowledge that you probably wont get anywhere near its failings on the roads in general. Plus he is a very talented driver, most of us wouldnt get near finding the last few 10ths! I also think its totally unrealistic putting a Cayman S that was what, £40k+ plus new, against something much much cheaper, its only cause of all the other pistonhead porsche lovers making comments who think they are the pinnacle of motoring, at any given chance on there, someone always says, ah yeah, but you can get a Porsche "whatever" for £"x" or thats Posrche "whatever" money!

Just considered this myself on a £2500 daily, the difference was £40 ish, hardly a deal changer!

There are quite a few of us over here now, i have had 5 rx7's over a 10 year love affair with them, from mild to wild including a magazine featured 7 build. Hope i can help or how can i help

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Personally i think there is a bit too much of a fuss made about the subject on here, i dont reckon 99.9% of the members on here would notice a difference if they didnt know what the car had on, certainly front to rear if the tyres were an equal quality. My 350 had mixed fronts on at the only track day i managed to get to this year, they were equally as bad but there really wasnt anything untoward going on. In an ideal world i would want matched fronts but front to rear really isnt something to be too concerned about imho

I agree with some of the others, so long as you have some aftermarket wheels with a polished lip it works, but if its rays painted black it doesnt as there is nothing to break the black up and just looks like you have sprayed them with a rattle can Most colours work on a black car to be fair, you dont have to be quite as fussy as to pick something that goes with a bold colour

I cant remember what programme it was but they are starting to use 3d printing to print human body parts laced with your own dna gel!!!!

It is something to do with stock or lack of and pricing, when it comes back to stock the price goes down.

Bump still looking

Isnt that the case for every Porsche, every car they make takes its major styling cues from the 911, their styling approach is staid and bland, again in my opinion. I thought the Carrera GT was a good break from the norm and looked good, in fact, this 918 looks like a more rounded softer looking version of the GT.

I think the CGT looks awesome and same goes for the SLR, just in a different way. I never thought the LFA looked pretty, just purposeful and in reality for me, the colour had a massive effect on how it looked. Its a fruitless discussion anyway, as it is opinion based (as mentioned), what looks good for one might not for another, that is the great thing about cars

In your opinion of course

I did see that, as usual very well put together review and i have no doubt its seriously quick (ring time etc) and very very well engineered but in "my opinion only" and in comparison, it looks dull as dishwater compared to the P1 and if i had that kind of money burning a hole in my back pocket i need a visual stimulus as much as a driving stimulus. I would also imagine between the three, Ferrari, Porsche and Maclaren the times will be within a few tenths of each other (around a track) and way beyond the average or even good drivers abilities so the only thing it comes down to is looks, thats if you even could buy any of them as think they are all sold out, i know the Maclaren is for sure.

I am not so sure Its such a bad price, its certainly equally as good/better looking as similar cars in that price bracket, will most likely perform as well, return better mpg, so what lets it down, spec? Real shame it didnt get to go round the track although with the recent weather it would have been a wet time. I know its carbon everywhere, but sub one ton, thats awesome, my mk1 mx5 bbr turbo was about the same with 150 ish hp, bet that 4c is fast! I do hope the P1 beats the 918, such an awesome looking thing, could not believe just how quick he was saying, 150, 160, 170.............

Here's the reply. Hi TT. Not seen anything official about the sale of the Ring, did it happen after all. ?. Cheers mate. Yes it was bought by Capricorn Automotive a couple of weeks ago Looks like your chum was right: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/the-future-of-the-nurburgring/

Still a £4k saving, lol. I have never known a replica to fit like an original (i dont mean oem). I went through quite a few different front bumpers in my rx7 days. Some ranged from needing a tweek so the saving was justified and the worst would have ended up costing me more to correct than an original so was sent back. Any original RMagic, Mazdaspeed etc pretty much fitted like oem. So long as you can buy and fit a replica for less than its original counterpart its worth doing, but because of my experience, unless there is universal praise surrounding its quality, i avoid replicas.

A lad on the Rx7 forum bought a replica Veilside Fortune kit, maybe the same guy! £8k which in respect isnt too bad when the original cost in excess of £12k i think, although it obviously needed a fair bit of work. I appreciate the mentioned design/mould costs and know there are a lot of panels for that kit etc but £8k let alone £12k is just a ludicrous sum for some fiberglass.

It doesnt have the necessary switches on the brake and accelerator pedals, but the wiring is there

I think its a shame it has gone down to one series as they didnt want to compete with Xfactor viewings. The autumn series always had the newest exotica out so wasnt so full of the "challenges" and the spring episode also gave a taster of the coming year with the odd surprise early release. Less time for them to fill with "challenges", although i do find most of them funny, even if they are totally staged. The worse one for me was the India special, they tried to hard for it to be funny. Last nights was ok, but again tried a little too hard to be funny.

20" alloys will fill your arches no more than 18's or 19's or even 17's as you have to keep to near the same rolling diameter via tyre profile.

I have to ask, if it is sh*t and has been sh*t for that long, why watch it?

I was surprised not to see a 1.9Gti and there are better choices in the golf and fiesta camp, but i guess the show had already been put together and they knew they were going to blow them up so not point buying anything good, although it may have made for a more interesting show. Its entertainment, its staged, they get millions of viewers, its not been a factual car based programme for many years. If you want factual watch 5th gear, but i would bet my last £ they would give anything to have Tg viewer numbers. *just seen the above whilst posting this! There is always the change channel button

Why would they do that, they havent done that for years (on the most part) Convinced some people watch Tg to moan about it! Not the best episode for sure but bought back some fond memories