<p class="MsoNormal">This weekend I saw a Cayman “in the metal” for the first time. I must concur with all who have said that it really does look superb, even the bug-eye fog lamps seem to work in a way that they do not in photographs. [/quote]However, I was bitterly disappointed with the interior. Although nicely executed and well finished there is littlethat I could see to distinguish it from the Boxster interior. [/quote]For a high performance sports car to feature no more analog instrumentation than your average Korean family sedan is particularly galling. I would have thought that for the substantial premium that we are paying over the Boxster S, we could at least have had the gauge cluster from the 997 providing us with a little more to distinguish the Cayman from the Boxster. [/quote]I knew this in advance of course but as always, the reality has hit home and I am no longer quite as enthusiastic about my pending delivery. A Boxster coupe indeed.
You could always do what the Honda boys do and guy a guage cluster for the A-piller to look 'macho'. Having an analog readout of the battery volts isn't that important to me...
Having an analog readout of the battery volts isn't that important to me...
Agreed, but oil temperature and pressure should be.
Since the oil system is enclosed these days (there isn't even a dipstick) the warning lights will go off long before there is a problem with either oil temp or oil pressure. I suppose a small aftermarket VDO gauge could be placed where the sport chrono is.
I think every car has compromises. Would I like to see some oil pressure & temp info......you bet, but am I going to fret about it......no. If Porsche wasn't sharing the parts bin in some manner all of their cars would be over $100k by now.........it's one of the main reasons they are still around today. The Cayman is built on the Boxster platform, hence we get the Boxster interior which pretty nice to begin with. To build a special dash / interior with more gauges for the Cayman would have been cost prohibitive........butwould have been a nice change nonetheless.
Look at the Techart's Cayman Interior. Maybe that what you're looking for.
fultwist,
Sorry to hear that the gauge configuration wipes out all the rave reports on this car to the extent that it is souring your enthusiasm about your pending delivery. I guess if we looked close enough and were looking for something we did not like, all of us would find something. Would this sour my enthusiasm? Hell No!![/quote]
Don't let the small stuff spoil the joy. Here's hoping you enjoy your car to the fullest./fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/MWPX/drive.gif
I thought the gauges looked nicer when driving the car than I did from photos because it is really hard to see in most photos how the digital readout and other indicators look.
The sport steering wheel did tend to block the view of some of the gauges at my first setting and I had to raise it a bit. I’m not sure I cared for that higher position, but I will need to play with all the settings again when I get the car.
When I was a kid the automotive press complained about all the idiot lights in American cars and I thought proper gauges were a must. Now BMW leaves off the temperature gauge because some German emergency services that use BMWs floor the cars when cold with no ill effects. Seems the idiot lights aren't so bad after all. While I will have to adjust to this new paradigm, I actually find the Cayman dash simpler and preferable to the Carrera's. Based on what I have read about BMW, I assume we will get all the information we need in our Porsches.[/quote]
From page 26 of the Cayman S book 'Cayman S is equipped with an electronic oil-level indicator as part of the onboard computer system.
The reading is so presice, a dipstick is not required
.' I'm beliveing everything else they tell me so I believe them on this as well. So no dipstick no guage needed.
