2018 Porsche 718 Cayman Test Drive Video Review 

Finally a real car review without a lot of extra accessories that you normally do not buy. Thanks! Greetings from Sweden.

I own this car in graphite blue with PDK, it is the most amazing and most beautiful car. Just incredible.

This is a stellar review. Nice job! I also like that you got to test a rather low optioned car with the manual gearbox. Keep up the good work!

Fantastic review! I appreciate your take on the new flat 4 engine. I'm sick to death of hearing every reviewer poop on it's sound in every review, but you went a different way and I approve. It is a new age and I do embrace it. I also appreciate a review of a base model car. You don't see a lot of those on the press circuit because the brands usually want to promote their most expensive options. The Cayman is the pinnacle among mid engine sports cars, in my opinion.

Best sport car for the price!

A really informative & entertaining review~~Good job!

In 2007, I bought the 987 with the 5-speed manual. I was my first sports car and I just liked the way it looked. Even after 10 years, I still find it immensely satisfying and fun to drive, but if I had it to do over, here is what I would do now:I would like more horsepower (should've gotten the S) and I should have opted for the 6-speed manual. As I am now a more experienced fan of sportscars, it seems like all I think and dream about now is 'more horsepower'...but, I still love that old basic Cayman and will never part with it!

this was a great review!

Thank you for your great review , I pick mines up Monday 😉

Minimal options keeps the price of test model under control. Pretty car for sure and a lot of those expensive options are rarely missed. That turbo four is powerful and offers great acceleration.

This was really good, I like you.

You are honestly the best

I'm not a c8 or Porsche fan but I've been leaning c8 lately. I think u just changed my mind!

Thanks for a review that doesn't harp on the switch to 4-cylinder engines, but instead focuses on the car's many high points. My only gripe with your vid is the comment about turbo lag under 2200 rpm. With a 7600 rpm redline who, realistically speaking, aggressively drives a car like this under 2200 rpm? It's a moot point, and a silly one to make.

Just get a sports exhaust and ur good to go

Nice Video

I owned a 2008 Cayman for a little over four years. It was stripped like this one. It was certainly a pretty car and a nice drive -- but didn't even come close to living up to the pervasive hype. I didn't track mine, which meant that about 90% of its performance capability was just wasted. My car had LESS standard equipment than a cheap Hyundai: No automatic A/C. No steering wheel controls (WTF!). No more gauges than a Hyundai (in a sports car? WTF!). No blind-spot detection. No active cruise control. No LED or bi-xenon headlights. Piss-poor standard stereo (almost unlistenable) and nearly impossible to upgrade the stereo after-the-fact. Constant brake dust made it impossible to keep the wheels clean; wash the car and drive a block and the wheels are all dirty again (until I replaced all the pads with ceramic pads, a $300 item that my mechanic struggled with over the course of three visits before he got it right -- would have been nice to have ceramic pads as a factory option, but Porsche doesn't even offer it (only the $8000 ceramic brakes AND rotors). Also no better than "okay" for daily use. Little torque made it easy to stall at intersections with the manual, and when you back up in cold weather and make a sharp turn (as in backing out of a parking place), the car will make a sound exactly like a gunshot. The first time this happened, my wife and I both instinctively ducked, sure we were under fire. We found out later that in a sharp reverse turn, the car will simply pull the front tires sideways (!) until they eventually break loose and snap back like a gunshot. This is just a characteristic of the car, you can google it. This is apparently harmless, just unnerving, but certainly unworthy of a car supposedly of this caliber. Oh, and Caymans and Boxsters prior to 2009 had the dreaded IMS which occasionally grenades the engine - not covered by Porsche after the warranty period, either. So, would I recommend one? Sure, a post-2009 one, if you go to a track or live close to Tail of the Dragon. If you want to drive it like ordinary people do, prepare yourself for $20-30K in options to make the car livable for daily use and therefore competitive with a mere Hyundai. A Miata is better equipped and a more fun car for the way normal people drive and costs 1/3 as much. Now the flaming can begin.

my future car are porsche 718 2019 after my cayenne 2016

I am an inexperienced manual driver, do you still think it's a good idea to get this in manual or should I get it with PDK since that's what I'm most comfortable with?

beautiful

Really Sweet Ride.

Nice review - for those of us stretching to buy a pure sports car this is the one to get. Porsche rips you off with its very expensive options. Base model with the 20" wheels and a couple essential options. Cannot compare this to a vette - one is a dull butchers knife and the Cayman is a scalpel.

Like buying the least expensive house in a fancy neighborhood I see the rationale in this car,left and right brain engaged.

Excellent review!!!!

But where is your video review

Great review!!

Me and my wife want to get a Porsche we may go with this option it fits the budget and seems like a good buy for the money not sure about the 4 cylinder though

Where is the dipstick to check the oil?

Thanks! Awesome car, Great review. Subscribed.

if you look at the porsche website you can see it actualy has a 1988cc engine

*_doug score pls_*

That whole area is very pretty, where was this filmed?

Very good review! ;-)

Nice review

Volkswagen owns everything - Buggati Ducati Porsche Lamborghini Bentley Maybach Audi Skoda

This is the base 718?

I got to get this car. I don’t want no other car trunk in the front and open hatch in the back I probably get this one in 2020

What's the last good porsche of this type with flat 6? Which year was it? I think sport car must sound loud. Design + Speed + Sound. U can't remove one imo. Otherwise u can get mazda mx 5, must more rational choice if u are not looking for noisy excitement.

Does anyone know if the rear spoiler does what it's intended for? Looks awesome and was one of the coolest features on the old vw corrados.

When will porsche 912 come out with a hopped up boxster cayman s turbo 4?

C8 has entered the chat

I would like to own this car

At 5:29 is it normal for the exhaust to move that much?

What's new from the 2017 base model?

where's the dip stick?

4 cylinder? What did we take a 50 year step back in time?

great job!!

You made me buy one!

This is the review I was looking for. I dislike how people always review the highest optioned build. I think I'm going to buy one of these some-time in late 2022.

Great review! Funny to hear complaints, this is a car for grownups. With taste and class. Boy racers can look elsewhere and go put their loud pipes on their ratty shitboxes.

Your height please?

Well, turns out not only has the choice to go to a boosted 4 cost people the superior sound. It's just straight up costing folks more too. As it's apparently been very costly to "maintain" aka, repair constantly... Perhaps dropping the N/A 6 for a heavily boosted 4 wasn't such a great idea after all...

this car or Q60s guys wanna buy one next year but still don't know what to choose

el auto esta hermoso y tu te vez tan guapo manejandolo

7:00 lol goku vs vegeta

in my opinion when you buy a porsche .. you need that flat--6 ... if they wanted to make things more modern .. just make a flat-6 of just 2 or 2.5 liter and turbo charge it .. :-) that would be great to offer to buyers ...

What's up with his pants lol

Who knows in which city was this captured ?

Very good review!

did he have to keep referring to it as the "seven one eight". It's the seven eighteen. People don't refer to the 911(992) as the nine one one!

Hide “something” if you’re worried about it being stolen ;)

It has a "colt" following or a "cult" following?

HMM, there's something intriguing about a base model car...

these are not top trim front headlight

Lol my dad is having a mid life crisis rn he just got a 2018 bmw 5 series now he wants a cayman

I can't tell from the small badging...;) kidding of course...nice product although I found the 981 styling slightly cleaner...I wonder what will happen to the vast number of boxster cayman sales each year once the c8 corvette comes out with a 6.2 liter rear mid engine v8... I'm just kidding as the Porsche is a slick ride as always

I think you mean CULT following... unless this is actually about following a young horse. :0)

White is too pretty!

What the hell did Porsche do the sound of this car in 2018

5 mins 15 seconds in... “How do you feel about the loss of the flat six naturally aspirated engine?” Your response “Not too bad”. My response “NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!”

Clicked away after he called the bonnet a hood

Wtf! No flat 6 ?

can i fit a golf bag in there?

This is my dream car but i know that I can't buy this in my life.but i wish if i would have got a chance to get in it for just once in life 🤤😣😣😣😔😔😔

nice capre pants man. my wife has the same pair

718 cayman

would prefer a better color, which is any color other than dull white

It's 2018 and already the wheels look dated. Otherwise the overall look is spot on.

Does this guy actually know what he's talking about?

if you want a subaru with a nice interior and better handling get this car !

Great looking car but too bad its now a lousy sounding turbo 4.

Imagine its faster than an audi v8

Dude please...Them jeans🙈

I can think of a much more raw sports car than the 718 for similar money. Faster too. But you neglected to mention it.

Porsche or Porsche(a)

Why exactly did they get rid of the 6-cylinder and replace it with a 4? Did they do a market survey and find a lot of owners and potential buyers were upset about having the extra 2 cylinders and thought the car would be improved with a turbo 4 with turbo lag? Seems to me that the car would be greatly improved with the 6 cylinder with even more power like in the GT4.

The turbo lag and godawful engine noise is a huge turn-off. But I bet you next yr model will be way better. But you know every car has something wrong with it. It is hard to beat a Cayman overall in most situations.

Cant believe this beast comes with a manual trasnmission.. Like are serious ?!

wow that flat 4 sounds horrible

“ Tuchas “ ✡️✡️❤️❤️

Corvette isn't a competition to any of the European cars.

The outgoing 981 had a more super car look because of the front bumper, this looks so boring.

türk ola +1 lesin

It's a new age so we can embrace it? Is that all it takes? Oh well then I'll jump right on board with the lag and the shitty sound.

Tukiss

Carpet over an engine? Ok

I have a 981 because the new generation exhaust sounds ugly. go for 981.😂😂

Great review, this car is balanced and worth the experience..."Yeshua/Jesus is the way"

What a joke... 4 cylinder Porsche... I'll be embarrass to roll up to a Honda Civic.

Wear your pants right please