Porsche Cayman

Growing up like many car guys and gals, I had posters of Porsche, Ferrari, and Lamborghini models all over my room. While most children of the ’80s preferred the 911, my favorite Porsche was always the 914.

Porsche Motorsport has taken the already cool Cayman GT4 Clubsport and transformed it into a very special Rallye Concept version. Pics posted on the team’s twitter feed show a car with sweet quad LED lighting system on the front edge of the hood and a roof air scoop.

For a while, I’ve been worried that Porsche might be completely ditching the traditional manual transmission in favor of its paddle-shifted “doppelkupplung” dual clutch transmission. So far the manual has remained in some of the high-end 911 models.

The owner of this slick little Black Porsche Cayman took the car and decided to remove the stock flat six. I can only assume that reason was that the Porsche engine broke and it cost too much to fix.

The Porsche Cayman has been my dream car since it debuted in 2005. It’s a beautiful, powerful car, one that had some motor journalists wondering if it was in fact “better” than a 911. Good luck winning that argument with a Porsche purist, but that it even was a discussion is a testament to the automotive marvel that is the Cayman.

I think we were all a bit nervous when we learned that the Cayman would be moving from the classic flat-six engines they had offered since introduction to turbo four-cylinder engines. Porsche has now gone official with specs on the 2017 Porsche 718 Cayman and 718 Cayman S, along with full details on the engines.

I have been a fan of Porsche since I knew what a Porsche was. Out of all the cars the German sportscar maker currently builds, the one I want most is the already sold out Cayman GT4.

I’ve been saying it for years: the Cayman is the best sports car that Porsche makes, but the history of the 911 keeps Porsche from pushing the platform as far as they do the 911. It’s sad, because I’m one of those guys who just cant get that excited about a 911, and also can’t tell any of the 75,983,737,234 variants that are on sale right now apart.