SPIED: The Next-Gen Porsche Cayman Gets Outed On The 'Ring

I read on another site that the Cayman/Boxster twins and the base 911 would share the same engine. I'm far from a mechanic or an engineer but I didn't know you could put the same engine in different applications. Or was that bad info?
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What is an engine? The M96 was used from 97-04 in displacements between 2.5 and 3.6 liters, in all Boxster and 911 models (except for the Turbo, GT2, and GT3). The M97 continues in the Boxster/Cayman and 911 the same way as far as I know, with a major upgrade in 2009 for DFI.

same basic design, but varying displacements/tuning.

The sillouette has changed from the side. The rear slope is now dominant. Before the slope was shorter and the bumpers were more dominant. Also looking at a rear shot the rear fenders are sharper,more chisiled. Obviously the the most common from the previous model are front and rear facia's. There is clearly less front and rear overhang now. Shape looks a little more balanced and integrated. Before it looked like more of a coupe tacked on top to a convertable.

Wow deboosted for asking an engineering question. You guys are interesting.
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Don't feel bad. People here tend to deboost you if you say anything that can be construed as at all negative toward their favored brand. Even if it's a fair and true statement. Never mind the people who troll on purpose.

I like the way the headlight shape changed ever so slightly...really feeling the front end.

Something seems a bit off with the headlights to me, but maybe I need to see it in person.

So far nobody has said anything negative on this car and the article did not imply anything negative as far as I could surmize. So I don't know what deboosting was going on. While I like Porsche's a lot I certainly agree with many that Porsche simply does not go far enough to change the styling of their models. But you could kind of say the same thing about BMW,Mercedes, and Audi as well. In fact I would say that while Audi has in the past 10 yrs a very nice dashboard there have not been a lot of changes in it's basic design for a long long time despite new models.Further Audi still has that same "monster" grill on it's front face. Like any other car maker Porsche has their marketing clinics regarding their brand identification. The 911 "Ghost" is the basic DNA for all Porsche's.I think a lot of people would like to see at least the sports cars look more like their race cars. The problem with that is that a lot of Porsche's race cars look too generic and
therefore too much like other race cars. I was hoping that the sillouette of the Cayman would have picked up on the beautiful 1963/64 Porsche 904 race car with a more "Kamm Tail" look to it's styling. But Porsche played it safe with the 911 ghost. This new Cayman looks more like a shorter 911 then the previous model.The new 911 certainly looks bigger. From what I've read what would be the point of a Panamera Coupe unless it was the size of BMW 6 series with 4 real seats.The new Cayman design looks to be more integrated then version one(anotherwords less like a convertable with a hardtop tacked on but a very adventuresome design.

People get deboosted for mentioning about being deboosted.