What hasn’t been said about the new Cayman? It’s a sweetheart of the automotive journalism community, and if you’ve ever been behind the wheel of the covered-roof Boxster, it’s not hard to understand why. With mosquito-like reflexes, a highly versatile powerband and chassis dynamics that rival some of the best in the business, the is an attractive package so highly polished that it feels like something much more expensive. To top it all off, the manual transmission model will muster nearly 30 mpg on the highway and, with two usable trunks, the Cayman is the Swiss Army knife in its highly competitive segment.
Released in early 2013 as a 2014 model, this newest Cayman is a clean-slate model that’s done plenty of harvesting from the ‘991’ 911 parts bin. A very tidy design, this newest generation model bares more than a few design cues from the Porsche’s most recent supercar, the 918 Spyder hyper car.It’s hard to find a bad angle of the car, and it’s not only the exterior that has benefited.
