Apparently not, it's a shame it was wearing 18 inch Boxster wheels with winter tyres. He did say it makes 320 BHP so evidently it has the Boxster S engine rather than 5 bhp more. Best of all he says PASM includes torque Vectoring on the Cayman which must be a unique feature[ORIGINAL: daro911 Has he not sat in and driven a 981 Boxster? Judging by his total surprise at the fit, finish and way the car goes one can only assume he hasn't
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I get the impression that Sutcliffe quite liked it..! However, "all this for £48k".......not with that spec mate. And I think that he got his power figure wrong - it's 325hp - unless it's a pre-production car fitted with a lower powered engine for some unknown reason (the 981 Boxster S has 315hp Chris). Jeff
Kevan,When I did the factory visit last we were allowed into the area where customers collect their cars, certainly it's very special but at 1k it's an expensive option if you factor the trip back into it as well. I would rather put the money into the options I want. That's what buying new is all about, after all. ChrisORIGINAL: Buddy Chris, if I was paying the price of a new Cayman S, I feel I'd have to collect it in person.[
Chris, After panning him for this apparent error, I believe that our apologies to Steve Sutcliffe are in order here. Porsche quote the max power for the 981 Cayman S as 239kW which does, in fact, equate to 320.4 (proper!) horsepower. The 325HP figure relates to metric/DIN/PS horsepower. I suspect that this applies to all their quoted horsepower figures, which should be indicated as PS rather than HP. Jeff
I know what you mean: Phi NT / 33000 = HP and all that. Hasn't Porsche always quoted metric based HP (PS), it's us (old-world) Brits who haven't got inline with the metric world yet? [
] When I did the PDE course at Silvertsone I recall they said the Gen II S engine was rated at 320 bhp.Jeff, something wrong here, 235kw converts to 315 HP = 320 PS Googled HP says: Most countries now use the SI unit Watt (or kW) for measurement of power. However, forever seeking standardisation, the European Union ruled in Directive 80/181/EEC on January 1, 2010 that the use of horsepower within the EU is only permitted as a supplementary unit.
Oops..! I must have typed 239 instead of 235 into the converter. It should indeed have read 235kW ~ 315HP ~ 320PS. As the EU have decreed Chris, probably best to stick to kW to avoid confusion but somehow it just doesn't sound right to me. kW for electric motors and HP for I/C engines I say..! Unfortunately, that argument seems doomed to fail now that there are so many hybrid vehicles around. Jeff
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