Poll: Which one would you buy and why?

Which one would you buy?

  • Cayman 981 S (55-70k)

    Votes: 34 16.5%

  • F-Type V6 S (65-75k)

    Votes: 107 51.9%

  • MY14 Nissan GTR (80K)

    Votes: 65 31.6%
  • Total voters
    206
Cayman, because its the only one you can get with a manual gearbox. I really don't see the appeal of these automatics in sports cars. They make total sense in a big saloon or 4x4 for wafting along, or if you are in city traffic all the time. But why would you want to take the driving pleasure of changing gear away in a sports car, I just don't get it.

The Jag is by far the best looking of the three though.
 
Got to be honest my brain struggles with a V8 and the thought of changing gear yourself. manual mode is a decent halfway house with paddles as tbh you really want both hands on the wheel.

I think your need to drive cars like this to get a solid feeling of the experience before understanding the actual need for a manual gearbox. :)
 
Thinking about it more...

Surely the Cayman punts the F Type into touch, from a handling / composure perspective... mid engined and a higher torsional rigidity (40,000 Newton-meters per degree VS 33,000 of the Jag). And perhaps more startling, is that the boxster is rated at 32,000 Nm... so almost does as well as the F Type coupe!
 
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Jonnycoupe said:
Got to be honest my brain struggles with a V8 and the thought of changing gear yourself. manual mode is a decent halfway house with paddles as tbh you really want both hands on the wheel.

I think your need to drive cars like this to get a solid feeling of the experience before understanding the actual need for a manual gearbox. :)
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Jonny, would you say the V8 is too much for the F type chassis or is it just a more intense drive?
 
pioneer2000 said:
Jonny, would you say the V8 is too much for the F type chassis or is it just a more intense drive?
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Just more intense and limited scope for full throttle on real UK but thats the car with anything with this sort of pace - Particularly RWD - It just gets busy in the cabin pretty fast and I see manual gearchanges detracting from the experience IMO.

Its a seriously stiff car with a wide range of technologies that keep everything under control, the knuckles and links need to retain the stiffness to actually ustilise the stiffness you get in the body. It has a real sense of adjustability with steering AND throttle management that I only started to see develop from the XKR-S; prior to that the other cars kinda left you guessing as to what grip you had. Lets be honest to the launch Coupe engines isnt the ceiling ;) I dont really have much experience of the Porsche stuff but Gibbos 911 passenger ride the traction available particularly with steering input would leave the F Type behind with the driver staring at the flashing traction control light and JPs standing launch in the GTR was just another world!

Difficult to get into a 'flow driving' in the V8s as you tend to just point and squirt between corners. Moving from the Insight to these cars I do struggle with recalibrating my brain on familar corners as you arrive so much faster! V6S reminds me more of an S2000 where it feels rewarding to get on it and stay on it with more managed use of brakes.
 
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I picked the GT-R, why, its always been a dreamcar ever since it was announced, the speed, the way it looks also the practicality, its almost as if its the perfect package.

I might of picked the F Type if it was the V8 (Even I know the V6 is still a brute)

Porsche, I can't comment as i've only ever driven a 986 2.7 Boxster (which sounded glorious), the Caymen does look fantastic but I'd feel I made the wrong choice...Unless its was a 911
 
Lovely position to be in Gibbo, I'd take the F-type Coupe as I think on the road it would be more enjoyable, more of the time. But the Cayman would be a very tight 2nd and if you are doing track days then it might edge in to 1st.


GTR wouldn't get a 2nd look from me unless it was 100% for the track. The other 2 are much nicer places to be when not in maximum attack mode.
 
Well Gibbo i drove with You in Porshe and with my mate in GTR.

For ME GTR> Anything else i been in so far :)
You got 4 proper sized seats and boot. My mate drives hes son for hockey games. Goes to tescos for stuff and. Man its stupid fast.

I say +1 for gtr :D

ps. Jag is cool to :p
 
Jonnycoupe said:
Just more intense and limited scope for full throttle on real UK but thats the car with anything with this sort of pace - Particularly RWD - It just gets busy in the cabin pretty fast and I see manual gearchanges detracting from the experience IMO.

Its a seriously stiff car with a wide range of technologies that keep everything under control, the knuckles and links need to retain the stiffness to actually ustilise the stiffness you get in the body. It has a real sense of adjustability with steering AND throttle management that I only started to see develop from the XKR-S; prior to that the other cars kinda left you guessing as to what grip you had. Lets be honest to the launch Coupe engines isnt the ceiling ;) I dont really have much experience of the Porsche stuff but Gibbos 911 passenger ride the traction available particularly with steering input would leave the F Type behind with the driver staring at the flashing traction control light and JPs standing launch in the GTR was just another world!

Difficult to get into a 'flow driving' in the V8s as you tend to just point and squirt between corners. Moving from the Insight to these cars I do struggle with recalibrating my brain on familar corners as you arrive so much faster! V6S reminds me more of an S2000 where it feels rewarding to get on it and stay on it with more managed use of brakes.
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That is what has kept me entertained for so long and still does with the 911, the challenge of getting it right, but when you do it is so rewarding as per you described. :)
Now just image what a 997.2 GT3 must be like. :eek:

The newer cars 991, not driven one, but they have added technologies now such as Torque Vectoring, even wider tyres, dynamic engine mounts blah blah blah. My 911 does not even have a diff (open diff).
Out of the new 991 the C4S actually now seems a better drive than the C2S varients for the first time, even for the purist. :)
 
Well GTR does do allot of work itself still feels awesome to drive it in my opinion :)
It just feels more like tuned car. But i cant have stock car cause all i see is stuff needed changing hahahaha
Not so much in GTR tho :P
 
GTR, awesome machine and 4 usable seats (it's a car after all).

If I was buying a 2 seat sports car it would have to be convertible.
 
Tappits said:
Something that's still very fast and 1000x more practical in RL to the others but is not a full on look at me car but to the people that know anything about cars will nod there head to the RS badge.
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Nod their head to acknowledge the epic under-steer?
 
Gibbo have You driven that Jag ?? I do like how it looks and tbh that porshe to me looks... UGLY one You got atm beats it 3x if it goes for looks :D
 
Out of interest... What are the prerequisites to getting a test drive in something like an F-Type?

Certain skin colour or dress code or age?! Or does it depend on the car you show up in?
 
Gibbo said:
What kind of spec would you go with m8?

To be honest the new GTS seems to have the spec I'd go for and is 55k, so with PDK added that would be my ideal car at under 60k, seems the GTS version helps save some money as the options I would want are standard fitment on that edition. :)
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Keep it simple for me.

Sport Plus seats
PDK + paddles
Sports Exhaust
PCM
Bose

Possibly sport suspension but have to try them first.
 
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