Porsche Cayman S: Vs the BMW Z4 M Coupe

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Porsche Cayman S: Vs the BMW Z4 M Coupe

Topgear review the Cayman S against the Z4 M Coupe. A nice read, with a great gallery!

This BMW Z4 M Coupe is eight feet wide. Well, not literally, but for the plucky young chap in the eye-wateringly yellow Porsche Cayman S currently some six inches off the Beemer's back bumper, there might as well be a pair of them lashed together side-by-side.

It's not that the Z4 M Coupe is cumbersome, just that while the Cayman is neatly knit-one, pearl-one between the brief straights and tight unsighted corners here in Portugal, the BMW is bounding around like a Labrador that's just stuck a wet paw into a three-phase generator.

Furtive glances in the rearview mirror confirm suspicions as to why the Cayman is all but mounting the BMW like some amorous block of Anchor Spreadable.

You can see the difference in the tactics at the wheel; while Cayman driver is at quarter-to-three and merely pointing the relevant thumb into the apex at precisely the right moment, Z4 M Coupe driver is palming the wheel into opposite lock with his right hand, trying to hook third with his left and hoping to God that there's nobody coming the other way.