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Originally Posted by naikaidriver
At the last autocross event that I competed in, there was a bone stock Cayman S. I was only .6 seconds off his best run on stock tires. Neither of us are "newbies".
Interpret that however you like. 
Scott |
It's honestly kind of hard to compare them on the basis of track time - the cayman will pretty much always be faster on a given track, but it's also higher horsepower (substantially), and the driver was different as well (regardless of experience level). However, I was mostly referring to driving feel with my last post. Having test driven a BRZ extensively when I was in the market (and owning a Cayman now), the Cayman steering is more solid feeling and communicative, and the car always feels ready to respond, almost as if it were reading your mind and predicting your next move.
Again, I'm not saying the BRZ is bad - it's an amazing car and I'm a huge fan (which is why I'm here, obviously), but the Cayman's handling is better in pretty much every way, at least subjectively (with one disappointing exception in my case - the older Caymans, mine included, suffer a bit for lack of a decent LSD, which can be problematic when trying to put down power out of a low speed corner. The newer ones with PTV have solved this problem though).