Ciao I'm Mario a Swiss Car Guy on YouTube
and today I'm standing here on a sort of warm November day squinting into the sun because
I think I've had enough if you sort of watch my channel regularly you will have figured out
that I haven't been releasing a lot of videos lately and uh to be honest I think three cars it's
getting a bit complicated because the Cadillac is constantly leaking no I cannot fix it yet I will
try to glue it let's not talk about it right now the Pontiac is still not really watertight so
I cannot really wash it um the Lexus works the wheels are ugly but it works and all of this it
it doesn't just take time to fix the issues it takes time to research the issues so this has
been quite time consuming and therefore it has taken up a lot of my free time and for that
reason I have not been willing to do a lot about it so um I've done the only reasonable
thing a car guy would do and no I didn't sell any of the cars yet nope I bought another car
because if three cars are a problem four cars are still a problem yeah because you see a while
ago I sold my Nissan GT-R because it was too large and too fast for Switzerland and uh I wanted
to get a smaller sports car but the market back then was crazy so I didn't buy anything and um
that was like one and a half years ago and now it's November it's almost winter which I reckon
is the best time to buy a sports car so I did and what did I buy you might ask well make sure
to watch the next episode of the swis car just kidding um I'm just going to show you the car is
right here next to me so let's turn the camera around oh yes it's a Coxster all right a 2008
Porsche Cayman S or as Clarkson called it the Coxster and you see it has nice 19in turbo wheels
on it which were factory option for this car it is specced in a very boring silver color but I
mean it's at least easy to keep clean because right now the car is very dirty and it doesn't
look that way here we have the car's 'pièce de resistance' as I call it the back the ugliest
part of the car because yes I bought a car I think is ugly and the rear of this car uh never
really did it for me but I didn't buy this car because of its looks I bought it you know in
order to drive it for the driving experience but also the back while ugly the good thing is
it has you know a hatch so there's a little trunk back here that holds a bit of of stuff and
it also of course has a Frunk let's check it out the Frunk in this car is surprisingly
spacious because you know I have a bag in there and more stuff but you could possibly
get a large suitcase in it which is better than my old 996 turbo I think because that car
had differential and stuff and therefore it has less space then again much of the space
it has an addition here is taken up by this thing which you know I think it contains the
navigation unit and whatever but you can still put things in here so there is a lot of space to
put things and also tools down here it's kind of useful now you might ask why did you buy
a Co... I mean a a Cayman well because I wanted a small sports car and this pretty
much is a small sports car also this is a 2008 and it has 142,000 km and um the
reason I bought this car there are two reasons but the second is that it's in
very very good condition I mean it has hardly any blemishes any damages on the paint
the wheels the wheels have no curbs they are like perfect no curve rush at all and also it
has Michelin pilot sport 4S which I think are great tires and it shows that the previous
owners took care of the car and look at also inside even the inside is basically Immaculate so
this car only has like very few blemishes and if I want to make one of my classic videos here's
basically everything that's wrong with this car um there are some scuffs here um yeah there are
some scuffs here the Alcantara on the seat is you know a bit dirty I don't know it's when the
Alcantara is not super fluffy um yes that and then um there's nothing the this car is basically
right now is good it has nothing also there is donkeys back here donkey hello but now I already
hear you screaming IMS the intermittent shaft bearing which is a bearing that's in the engine
that's known to fail and cause catastrophic engine failure yes this car has an IMS but this car has
an uprated IMS from the factory and on these cars the IMs do not tend to fail so that's not really
an issue so I'm good on that but then you might say oh mario mario mario what about BORE SCORING?
oh yes because the Cayman s's the 3.4 l they have a tendency to score the cylinders which is um
bad they start to drink a lot of oil and then um at some point you have to basically open up the
engine and redo the whole thing or replace it uh yes this is an issue especially on high mileage
cars like this one because 141 142,000 km quite a lot however this car and I don't know for many
people this would not be a positive thing for me it is because this car had catastrophic engine
failure about 2,000 km ago the previous owner was driving and then all of the sudden everything
came on and um yeah he drove it to the the Porsche dealership or I think he he had a to toad anyway
and um they replaced the engine the rump engine had rebuilt the whole rest it was a good thing the
car was under warranty back then because the car had a Porsche approved warranty and um even though
the car was under warranty since the damage was so expensive the engine work was so expensive
the previous owner has had to pay 6,000 Francs of his own money to have the car fixed because
the Porsche warranty would only pay um the value of the car at that time and I reckon the job they
did on this car was over 20,000 Francs and um yeah yeah so a a por with a broken engine is definitely
not worth 20,000 Francs especially not a Cox... I mean a kayman s like this one and uh yeah he had
to pay out of pocket and this is also the reason why this car was relatively expensive because
you see this is a 15-year-old Porsche Cayman with 140,000 km this car should be cheap and it wasn't
because I spent 24,000 Swiss Francs on this car which is much for one of these I I reckon the car
if the engine work had not been done in original condition a car like this wouldn't be worth
more than 20,000 Francs so I paid the premium in order to have the car with a rebuilt engine
and not only is the engine rebuilt but I still have a year of warranty on the engine because
it was done a year ago and there's two years of warranty by Porsches so I have a warranty
on the engine which makes me sleep a little easier other than that the car is in really great
condition and I think we should take it out for a drive so how is it to drive well in the past 1
and a half years I've only been driving like big barges like my Lexus my Cadillac my Pontiac and
uh this car is a welcome um departure from that because well this is a proper sports car it's
Mid Engine which I like it's the first miden engine car I've ever owned and uh it has quite a
torquey engine and the first time I was driving this car around I I was thinking myself wow
this is quite a a torquey little engine and then I realized well but it's a 3.4 l it's
not actually that small I mean it's small it's larger than most people in Switzerland will
ever have an engine in their car so um yeah no wonder it's torquey the car is not that light
it is about 1,500 kilos so 1 and 1/2 tons and um that's because this is based on a convertible
this is based on the Boxster and basically what they do they just add roof which means the car
doesn't get much lighter because convertibles are usually reinforced in order for them not to
flex when because they don't have a roof so what did did adding a roof to this car is basically
just it made it really stiff and you can feel it because this is a 15-year-old car but actually
it doesn't rattle it doesn't do anything it it feels solid it feels like a piece of granite to
be honest my Nissan GT-R for example it would squeak and rattle um quite often um and this
feels like a another level I I don't know and I don't think this is more rigid than a GT-R
but it certainly seems to be sort of Better Built because it has held up really well and
as I said it doesn't make a lot of rattles and squeaks the engine while being quite torquey has
also um a nice top end so uh from like like 5,000 RPMs it develops like a second bit of boost it's
like VTEC basically and I think it's it has to do with variable valve timing and stuff and it sounds
quite all right personally I think Porsches tend to sound quite terrible because to me they always
sound like beetles because that's what they are in the end and uh this one it sounds quite all
right it has a nice ring to it it's not too loud this car does not have the sports exhaust in fact
this car is quite a low spec car it's something I usually wouldn't buy because I like the fully
optioned out cars and this car has almost nothing as far as optionals go I think the only thing it
has is the PCM system so the navigation unit from 28 so it's 15y old navigation it's useless um
the previous owner had like a Dension Gateway 500 Bluetooth installed so he could connect his
this phone it also has Bluetooth streaming and USB but um I think it doesn't work I haven't been
able to work it out and even the phone function is not really that good the phone sound is
really really distorted so um of course I already ordered a new radio from AliExpress
and I will be replacing this thing here from the past so the only valuable option this car
had I'm going to replace so great um then what does the car has oh it has home link has garage
door opener which actually works perfectly I've been able to to pair it to my uh garage door at
home to my mom's place to the garage drawer for the other place where I keep the other car and
it all worked which is fantastic and then um what does it have it has sound package plus which
is not the highest sound system available because the highest sound system was the Bose and this car
does have the sound package Plus I reckon it might be standard on the S models I'm not sure but to be
honest I kind of like it it sounds quite all right um without the subwoofer it sounds surprisingly
Bassy in fact I had to tweak it and turn stuff around um the highs don't seem too great but you
know I will I will make better comparisons once I replace the radio because the the Chinese radio
I bought on Express of course it has DSP and and good equalizer and everything and I reckon I
will be able to get some sound quality out of it but even as this is not that bad the thing
is just right now I'm stuck either listening to CDs or the radio or use the ax because it has an
AUX um that also works but I hate it so I can't wait for the radio to arrive otherwise options
wise well it doesn't have an extended leather package it doesn't have sports Chrono which is
the little stopwatch in the dash which I don't really see a need for uh it doesn't doesn't have
the pasm which is the Porsche adaptive suspension management and which I honestly do not miss
because this car I think it rides really well it's firm but it's not harsh it it's firm you
know because you know you're in a sports car you know that the body is very stiff but it's not
crashy and that's in stock contrast to the GT-R I had before because that was you know that was very
crashy really harsh first generation GT-R and uh this in comparison is much more manageable but now
you might say Mario this car is a manual and you don't like manuals yes I still don't like manuals
but I'd rather have a manual sports car than one with a torque converter automatic especially an
old one because they just kill every joy out of the car so I bought this car with a manual I would
have bought a pdk one but the pdk ones they were only available from the facelift 2009 onwards and
those cars were considerably more expensive and it's rumored that these cars are do not suffer
from the bore scoring issues but I wouldn't bet on it because in the end these are still Porsche
boxers they still use the same aluc seal plating so I'm not uh that sold on it and the newer car
being a direct injection engine this is indirect injection also has have the typical soot problem
so everything soots up and needs to be cleaned periodically this one being a indirect injection
doesn't have that issue but back to the manual gearbox this is a six-speed and um despite me not
being fan of manual gearboxes I kind of like this one because the gear changes are you know chunky
they are not too long it is precise compared to the BMW z4m I drove a while ago this is much much
better it's much more pleasurable to change gears especially also because the gear stick has the the
front is in is in metal so it's it's nice to touch and um again it's a nice short shortish throw
it doesn't have a short shifter on it and it's very positive it's very easy to engage the only
thing I don't like is that reverse gear is forward left so I am sometimes in reverse and think I'm
in thir first and then the car goes the wrong way so this could end badly this is something I
don't like otherwise the gearbox I think is quite good the pedals though I think they are not
arranged in a way that you can heal and Tow in normal driving because the brake pedal is
way too high compared to the clutch so you can basically only heel and toe if you really
break hard which is probably the only time you should heal on toe but if you were not on a track
you're never going to break this hard so n n yeah yeah it can be done it can be done and um yeah I
don't mind the gearbox I mind the clutch a little because the clutch is certainly much easier than
on the 996 turbo I used to have because that one was Servo assisted it was Bare of any feel whereas
this one is um is quite good you can feel the bite point but it's still a long actuation way and I'm
really feeling it in my leg because after driving this car for a few days and my my legs I think
the the the ligaments in the leg are starting to hurt quite a bit maybe also because in order
to press the clutch I have to put the foot in a bit of a odd angle because a thing that this car
I think is worse than a 911 is that the 911 is more spacious inside and I want to say this car
is very spacious I mean I could wear a top head basically basically but this with the engine
being right here this is as far back as I can go with the seat and I reckon 911 because it has
rear seats I could go further back have my legs further extended and be a bit more comfortable
then again this is as far as the steering wheel comes out so if I was further back I would be
doing this so yeah I guess this is the way the car is but handling wise the car it feels very
solid the steering is uh I'm not somebody who talks a lot about steering but the steering
really feels great I and it basically goes really where you want it and you can feel that
the car is Mid Engine because at some point um the car just sort of turns around its Center
Line it's very a weird feeling but you get used to it because usually the the the center of
gravity in a car is not that Central to the car so okay oh yeah this car doesn't even have have
automatic AC it has manual AC and it's not that great because you constantly have to shuffle
around and n it doesn't even have heated seats this car does not have heated seats so it's it's
really a barebones car but the plastic the dash and everything has held up beautifully so the
car actually it feels like a new car I went to pick it up with my cousin and he was like wow
the car is like new I bought this car in Lausanne by the way this is the third car I buy in Lausanne
my first 911 I bought there and my Lexus I bought in Lausanne I seem to buy all my cars in loan
so yeah so let's see traction control it's 7° today wow over 5,000 it's kind
of accelerating to be honest I didn't think that because I'm not
used to reving cars I have big V8s and I'm doing very uh not illegal speeds right now
because they changed the speed limit around here bastards I cannot drive on 1010 today
because first I'm on the public road and second um it's fall so there's leaves
everywhere it's wet and it's cold the on summer Tires so I have to I have to
drive with some care ooh it is torky though now this car handles well it doesn't have
the the incredible traction of a GT-R of a 996 turbo because this is not all-wheel drive but
with the rear wheel drive with the um the the engine in the middle it has very good traction
and it has fairly wide tires at the back I think I have no idea what dimension but also them
being Pilot Sport 4S certainly helps so I'm quite satisfied with the Cox I mean the Cayman
S because I want the car to go drive roads like these mountain roads where you cannot have a
car that's too large and also you don't want a car that's too fast because if you rev it out
you don't want to be doing 160 or something like that this if you rev it out in second gear will
only do 110 which most likely might still get you a license suspension but I mean at least it
won't get you jail time you know and also being so small and Nimble it's it's fantastic this is
the second smallest car I've ever owned my first car was a Lancia y with a 1.2 L that was smaller
than this and all the other cars were larger it had larger engines so yeah something I also
don't like about the car is these stalks this is the cruise control and this is a stock for the
uh trip computer and stuff for the multifunction display and they are sort of in the way sometimes
I will bump it with my knee and uh other times I will mistaken them for the indicator or something
because they are really close one to each other and they are sort of the same shape so I'm not
a fan of those oh yeah another thing this car doesn't have either which I'm not sure if it
even was an option back when this car was new is a limited slip differential because yes again
I bought a sports car without the limited slip differential I thought only Mercedes was doing
things like that but apparently Porsche is the same they use some sort of traction control uh
Machinery magic to um simulate a differential which means the rear brake pads will wear out
more than front ones because they have to do some active things there but I mean it's not great
personally I prefer a car to have a proper limited slip differential because you just feel it the
way they grip is different and this one clearly hasn't um then again this also doesn't have
crazy amounts of power it has 295 horsepower which I probably haven't uh haven't said yet
295 horsepower out of 3.4 l this is the the the S engine the Cayman S engine of the first
generation I think the second generation move moved to a different 3.4 l which is completely
different this has an m97 engine so it's basically very closely related to the engine in the in
the 997 Porsches in the naturally aspirated ones and in the 996s at least in the 997s in
the pre-facelift models also this car does not have a sports steering wheel it has the regular
steering wheel and I thought this was something that would annoy me but I really like the
steering wheel it feels great great I like it a lot of course it doesn't have multifunction
buttons on the steering wheel which wasn't that common on these cars but I
think it's a good thing because with the aftermarket Chinese radio not
all the buttons work perfectly so yeah who [Music] cares to Ling along at 30 K pH [Music] it sounds glorious it sounds glorious good are we here [Music]
[Music] a [Music] SC this is fantastic I enjoy this a lot so this is it my 2008 Porsche Cox... I mean
Cayman S A Car um that's exactly what I wanted a small sports car that is powerful enough but not
ridiculously powerful and that doesn't break the bank I mean I paid 24,000 Francs for it that's
not necessarily cheap but I mean these were 80, 90,000 when they were new so yeah I guess it's
still all right and um if I don't have too many major expenses I should be all right what do you
think of this car please comment down below did I make a good buy was am I an idiot or um
should I get rid of other cars let me know in the comments down below and also subscribe
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video and share it with somebody who might like it who might want a car like this because I
don't know if this video is actually going to entice them or or keep them away from from
it because I am a person who bought a Porsche this is my second Porsche and I'm somebody
who doesn't exactly like Porsche so I think it should speak for the car any anyway thanks for
watching have a nice day bye the sun is killing me
