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Had it been a case of which car was the best on the track, the Cayman would have finished out of sight in front. It is sharp, focused and beautifully engineered for belting around at high speeds. And the representative for high-powered sports cars in our top 10 certainly has the looks.
It's a package that is entertaining, challenging and communicative - so much so it feels as if it could use some more horsepower. Porsche was accused of limiting power outputs to preserve the market position of the 911, but the 180kW, 3.4-litre six-cylinder Cayman S is really a different beast.
Mid-engined, with luggage space front and rear, it would make any driver smile.
However, looks and high-speed travel on smooth surfaces are not the whole picture.
As much as the Porsche won hearts doing its thing on the track, it lost some ground with most judges once it came back to a real-world situation.
The very suspension sharpness that made the car so competent on the track was deemed by the judges as too difficult to live with as a daily drive on anything but the smoothest of roads.
And at $148,500 for the basic package for the six-speed manual, price also became a talking point - particularly as that does not include the test car's leather trim ($4490), metallic paint ($1890), PASM active suspension ($4490) or the bi-Xenon headlights ($2290).
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