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Replying to: designman (Nov 30, 2006 6:31 pm) The Cayman is right up there as "the best pure driver's car" with my old '95 Miata R package, which actually had a worse stereo than the Cayman. I see and confirm your correlation. |
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Trying to decide between CaymanS,BMW550i,AudiS4 How do these compare? Test drove CS-awesome!
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Replying to: chander (Dec 01, 2006 8:02 pm) All very appealing cars, but in very different ways. |
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Replying to: chander (Dec 01, 2006 8:02 pm) Cross shopping a 2-seat sports car with a 4,000 lb 5- passenger sport sedan and a AWD compact sedan. Any reason you didn't throw in any of the other 200 or so sports cars, coupes, sedans and crossovers? Seriously, there is no comparison. The 550i 6-speed would be on the top of my list if my Acura TL got hit by a bus. The Cayman S could be on the top of my list is 8-10 years when my kids are in college and it's time to replace my 911. The S4 is not on any of my lists - I'd take the RWD lighter, nimbler M3 if I were looking in that segment, but I'm not. I will say I have no idea what a CS is, but I suspect it fits in with this group about as well as the other three. You need to do some needs/preferences assessments before you pull out your checkbook. Or try to test drive the other 197 cars that fall within the segments you identified.
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Replying to: habitat1 (Dec 02, 2006 4:42 am) CS = Cayman S
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Replying to: carnaught (Dec 02, 2006 7:35 am) 
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Replying to: chander (Dec 02, 2006 11:46 am) I'm certainly not "pure" enough to be offended and had you phrased your question with that qualifier (use as a daily driver) I would have withheld the Prozac comment. In the past 14 months, I've put 11,500 miles on my 911S and under 3,000 miles on my Acura TL. And most of the Acura miles were out of feeling guilty seeing it sit there. Thanks to PASM, the 911S on "normal" suspension setting is pretty street friendly. If you have to deal with snow, that will require winter wheels/tires. I think the Cayman would make a great commuter car. |
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| Interesting comment about signing something saying you won't move your Porsche outside the US. Do recall what the consequences were? You'd have to give back the car I suppose (ha)? I recently moved from Oregon to The Netherlands. I brought my 2000 Boxster with me (about 30 k miles). I figured it was worth more here. Thanks to the exchange rate it could be worth nearly double (i.e. from about $22 k to about $40 k or so, but 30% of that is from exchange rate). At the dealer I can't help but look at prices and due to taxes, etc. you could come close to paying twice. Had I known this I would have bought a brand new 911 in the US, not signed the thing about moving (or signed it "Mickey Mouse"), driven it here for a few years and made money upon selling it. Seems like there is a bit of arbitrage opportunity, although there are various restrictions that would make it hard to do regularly. | |
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