Porsche 718 Cayman S

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2017 Porsche 718 Cayman S Manual

Specifications

PRICE: $82,290 (base price: $67,350)
VEHICLE TYPE: Mid-engine, Rear-Wheel-Drive, 2-Passenger, 2-Door Hatchback
ENGINE TYPE: Turbocharged and Intercooled DOHC 16-Valve Flat-4, Aluminum Block and Heads, Direct Fuel Injection
DISPLACEMENT: 152 cu in, 2497 cc
POWER: 350 hp @ 6500 rpm
TORQUE: 309 lb-ft @ 1900 rpm
TRANSMISSION: 6-Speed Manual

DIMENSIONS:
WHEELBASE: 97.4 in
LENGTH: 172.4 in
WIDTH: 70.9 in 
HEIGHT: 50.6 in
PASSENGER VOLUME: 49 cu ft
CARGO VOLUME: 15 cu ft
CURB WEIGHT: 3087 lb

C/D TEST RESULTS:
Zero to 60 mph: 4.1 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 9.3 sec
Zero to 130 mph: 16.2 sec

C/D FUEL ECONOMY:
Observed: 19 mpg
75-mph highway driving: 29 mpg
Highway range: 490 miles

EPA FUEL ECONOMY:
Combined/city/highway: 22/20/26 mpg

Details:

It's the variant of Porsche's refreshed for-2017—and recently turbo-fied—passage level games auto with a settled rooftop, a 350-hp motor, and a six-speed manual transmission. Alongside its 718 Boxster convertible kin, the 718 Cayman car offers one of the purest driving encounters accessible in any games auto, including inside Porsche's own particular stable. As a major aspect of a far reaching re-try, the '17 Cayman S got speedier controlling from the 911 Turbo, firmer suspension tuning, greater brakes from the 911 Carrera, and crisp sheet metal almost all over, and also a turbocharged 2.5-liter level four set up of the earlier auto's normally suctioned 3.4-liter level six. Yield expanded by 25 pull and 37 lb-ft of torque, the last accessible, conveniently, exactly 2600 rpm bring down on the tachometer. (The torque crest is lower, as well, by 900 rpm, yet the most extreme motor speed dropped by 300 rpm, to 7500.) The Sapphire Blue Cayman S we drove for this survey began at $67,350 before generally $15,000 in choices.

Well, we like essentially everything about the Cayman S and its kin—there's a reason they've progressed toward becoming backbones of our 10 Best Cars grants. The suspension asks to be filled a corner, there's eminent mid-motor adjust and correspondence at the breaking point, and the ride is decent in practically every circumstance. Furthermore, with 15 cubic feet of payload space split between the front trunk and the hatchback region, the Cayman is more qualified than most games autos for both every day driving and long street trips. 


In any case, overlook drives or activity trudges, this is an auto that is tied in with living at the time. The amicable feel of the essential controls encourages a relatively otherworldly association between the auto and its driver, and with turbocharged torque accessible everywhere throughout the tach, the Cayman S just pulls ass. The directing, shifter, and grip are almost impeccable regarding physicality, reaction, and weight—they're considerable and responsive however not erroneously overwhelming or skittish, not at all like in numerous other lively autos where marketers apparently managed the vibe. In case you will pound on this auto on byways or on a circuit, it's difficult to contend against our test auto's PASM Sport suspension ($2070), with its lower ride stature, or the $1320 Porsche Torque Vectoring, which groups singular back wheel braking and a mechanical restricted slip differential to give the Cayman a considerably more keen hunger for corner summits. 

This auto overflows with all the dynamism one anticipates from a Porsche, however it's hard not to consider sparing $13,000-ish and getting the base Cayman with a manual. That model's execution numbers aren't that far away those of the S, and it offers the vast majority of similar alternatives outside of a couple of higher-execution treats, for example, the PASM Sport framework. 

While we comprehend there's loads of benefit in Porsche's individually alternatives show and a great deal of shopper bid to requesting a particular auto, things like warming ($530) and ventilation ($730) for the seats, route ($1730), auto-darkening mirrors ($690), and control situate alteration ($800 for two-way Sport Seats Plus) which were all among the additional items fitted to our auto—should be incorporated on anything that begins north of 65 thousand. At last, the progress to constrained enlistment has seen the motor sound turn out to be not so much euphoric but rather more Oreck. The 718 Cayman S still sounds awesome on the low end, where the mechanical decency of the level motor format radiates through, yet at higher rpm there's more moaning and whooshing than in more seasoned Caymans. That is with the $2540 Sport fumes; the auto is even less aurally fulfilling without it.

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