Porsche model reference
Porsche Cayman
What our record holds on the Cayman, sold in the UK since 2005: body styles, fuel types and the road tax a used one pays.
No reliability figure is published for the Porsche Cayman that this site could cite. What circulates instead is survey data from panels that select themselves, and warranty claim rates published by companies with something to sell.
Any percentage would be our own calculation. Which years count, and whether a facelift and a new generation sharing the Cayman name are one model or two, both move the answer, and neither choice is anybody official's.
So the field does not exist. We do not average the other Porsche models into a number and put it here, and we do not push a marque figure down onto the Cayman. What is real and specific is the paperwork for one car.
No fault ordering is published for the Cayman
A 2013 2.7 at around 195 g/km is band J, so check the V5C figure before budgeting. A 2018 Cayman pays the flat £200 instead.
That figure is a worked example for the year and engine named, not a rate for every Cayman. Read the CO2 figure and the first registration date off the V5C before you budget, because both change the answer.
See every band for this tax yearStanding next to one
Buying a used Cayman: what the record settles
Our record puts the Cayman's UK sales period at since 2005. That range is the useful starting point, because everything about the cost of running one turns on where a particular example sits inside it. It came in one body style here, coupé, with one fuel type, petrol.
The Cayman was on sale on both sides of the road tax change of 1 April 2017, and that is the single most useful thing to know before you buy one. An example first registered up to 31 March 2017 is taxed on its CO2 figure under the lettered bands, so engine, gearbox and even wheel size can move two cars of the same year into different bands. One registered from 1 April 2017 pays the flat standard rate instead and its CO2 stops mattering. Two otherwise identical cars a year apart can cost noticeably different amounts to keep taxed, and only the V5C tells you which one you are looking at. There is also a quirk worth knowing on the oldest examples: a car registered before 23 March 2006 cannot be charged above band K however high its emissions, so a thirsty old one can be cheaper to tax than a newer car a class below it.
For running costs the fuel matters more than the badge.
None of that is a substitute for the record of the actual car. The invoices name what was replaced, when and at what mileage, and the same job appearing twice in three years says more about a Cayman than any statistic about the model ever could. A mileage that goes backwards across a paperwork trail is worth walking away from whatever the badge is.
Porsche Cars Great Britain was set up in the 1960s and Britain is now one of its largest markets outside Germany and China. The Cayenne and Macan account for most of its volume here, not the 911, and that is what fills its used forecourts. Bore scoring on the early water cooled flat six engines and coolant pipe failures on the first generation Cayenne are the two faults worth a specialist inspection. That is context on the marque rather than on this car, and there is more of it, along with every other model line, on the Porsche page.