]Interesting read. Thanks. This is exactly the type of article i'd be looking for more of in Porsche Post.ORIGINAL: John H Would also have been fairer to use a 2.7 Cayman, which Harris is known to like, but I suppose it comes down to what is available. Good vid tho. I've penned a few words on the subject myself, due in next months Porsche Post ... preview here http://www.arthurlea.com/Stories/BRZ/index.htm [
Great write up there!! I'm currently in the position of finding & buying a 2nd hand Cayman S and my budget is circa £25k......and this write up has made me think, maybe I should pop down to my local Toyota / Subaru dealer and have a nose!ORIGINAL: John H Would also have been fairer to use a 2.7 Cayman, which Harris is known to like, but I suppose it comes down to what is available. Good vid tho. I've penned a few words on the subject myself, due in next months Porsche Post ... preview here http://www.arthurlea.com/Stories/BRZ/index.htm [
Only because we have all gotten used to cars that are massively over-powered for todays road conditions, and that really was the crux of my argument. I would contend there is no skill in driving something like an Audi RS6 on the road, and therefore little pleasure, and that anyone who claims to be able to extract 100% of what a GT3 RS offers on the public road is either a liar or a lunatic. The delight of the Toyubaru is precisely that is NOT overpowered, you have to go looking for the power, and use some real driving skill to get the best from it, and of of this at less than jet fighter speeds, which will get you banged up if caught these days. Enjoy the drive, not the numbers. For the record I have now driven several of the Toyota versions, which have slightly different spring rates, and if anything they are even better on the road, whereas the Scooby is slightly more track focussed, but we are talking shades of difference here. I really like both the Subaru and the Toyota, and would happily add one to my fleet if cash allowed, but would I swap my Cayman for one? ... No. All of them are great to drive, but the Porsche ultimatley has a certain something that even the best mass produced Japanese car doesn't have.
And there lies the problem.....and Chris Harris also voiced it, if you had 25k where would you put your money - mine would go on the Porsche. Why? Because it will reward you not only in the driving of it, but when you look at it, touch it, sit in it.....because it is at the end of the day a Porsche!
Read your article again now that it's in Porsche Post[ORIGINAL: John H Would also have been fairer to use a 2.7 Cayman, which Harris is known to like, but I suppose it comes down to what is available. Good vid tho. I've penned a few words on the subject myself, due in next months Porsche Post ... preview here http://www.arthurlea.com/Stories/BRZ/index.htm [
] A good comparison. The Toyota GT-86 is supposed to drive differently to the BRZ. Would be good if you could give them both a measure against the Cayman[]
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