Porsche insurers letter you in on the deal.

Porsche insurers - Insureyourporsche.co.uk - have just spotted some absolutely fantastic news for the poverty stricken, as Porsche is making a cheap model; the Cayman, to Insureyourporsche.co.uk's inspired way of Porsche insuring thinking means for those of you that favour any Mercedes that isn't the *SLR McLaren, you don't have to pretend to have made it any more. Let's face it; driving an E-Class, you were fooling no one but yourself anyway. And as Porsche insuring Insureyourporsche.co.uk can vouch for, Joe Public's untrained cycloptic eye ain't going to spot the difference between what you're now driving (a Cayman S that's shed its reliance on alphabety-spaghetti, and with it 50bhp) and a proper (£10k-heavier) Porsche Cayman that does have a superhuman letter emblazoned across its exterior anyway; so job done. And as Insureyourporsche.co.uk, the Porsche insurer will tell you, your golfing-pre-occupied neighbours with their Honda Accord's wont rumble you either, as they wouldn't know what a true Porsche was if it rose up out of a sand trap and savaged them in the middle of the 6 th fairway.

So, you're probably thinking about now, just how you're going to recognise it yourself - in the car park outside the Co-Op travel agents? Easy. It will be the one in the space next to where the Audi RS4 was nabbed from whilst you were away making old peoples travel arrangements. Not that I'm saying your new Porsche isn't an attractive proposition. It's just that its black-painted brake callipers do mark it out as the lower-powered alternative for those of helium-weighted hands and in-hood satellite navigation. Why take the pork scratching when you can have the chefs special? Which can only be a good thing. It means that you get longer to play around with a CD player and aircon which is standard kit on the new Cayman. So approximately 16 seconds later you'll be reminded of the day you were overlooked for regional promotion. Again. And wonder why you don't get to fiddle with a six-speed gearbox of tricks, and an active suspension system that features a lower ride height and sport program for sharper responses that are optional on this poor relation, yet the 'S' is born with.

And this sets a particular trend. Of less being more? I don't think so. Unless of course you think 50 bhp less, is more? Courtesy of the 2.7litre 6-cylinder Porsche have lifted out of the Boxster. (a time and a place you thought you'd left behind) Or 0.7 seconds slower 0-60 than the 'S' is more? Or that perhaps in some bizarre way 160mph is more than 171mph? Or that 17" is greater than 18" when it comes to alloys? However, it may be considered so when you look at two other factors. Fuel economy might not be even worth thinking about if you own a £70k lump of Teutonicness, (as you probably let one of your 'boys' fill it up for you, not even knowing where the fuel goes) yet when you're on your automotive uppers then its crucial to learn that you get 3.8mpg more on the combined cycle. Whoopee! And naturally less is very much more when it comes to parting with cash. £7,710 pounds cheaper than the needless extravagance that you've suddenly decided that the 'S' is.

Anyway, if you shake off your lethargy (that put pay to your salary rise and proper Porsche) and fancy getting your holiday accommodation-locating hands on the Cayman that comes minus a certain letter S, then get yourself to the front of the delivery queue for July. And get some driver training on the Porsche driving experience thrown into the basement bargain. And don't forget, if its Porsche insurance you want, then Insureyourporsche.co.uk can continue the less is more approach that you're set to enjoy with your new purchase.

*Odds are if you do drive a McLaren, that you've probably shifted quite a few illegal's anyway, therefore theoretically making you a self made man. Unethically speaking.

Date - 03/10/2006