Today I was looking through here / bimmerfest and was still intrigued to see many of the age old ancient Boxster / Cayman vs Z4 threads and comments / digs. So I did a 10 minute session on the Porsche website spec'ing a Cayman to rival the 35 IS to see if anything had changed since I last drove the porker.
After 10 minutes I had both cars specified fairly closely.
- Z4 35 IS (my fairly high Spec) - Approx £40k after discounts.
P Cayman S (similar spec) - £62k and probably not able to negotiate anything substantial off.
Conclusion. I'm still confused that people continue to compare these 2 cars as if they were the same price. And not just people on forums either, I stopped reading Autocar as they are practically owned / sponsored by Porsche. I think the Cayman is becoming a nice looking car (with many options specified) but it isn't remotely in the same price band / comparable on value to a Z. It would make more sense to compare to the Jag F-Types / etc.
For me the baby Porches are so expensive that I'd just skip them and go straight to an F-Type S or Aston Martin.