At first it may seem strange to have a head-to-head comparison using the same model Porsche against itself. However, there’s a major difference you can’t see from the outside. One Cayman has a manual gearbox and the other comes equipped with PDK. Which one is best? Let’s find out.
I think the second half of the video would be more telling if they had the same driver in each Cayman and compared their own lap times. We’ve done that at the Porsche Sports Driving School and PDK is faster every single time.
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