Porsche Cayenne S Coupe
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£88,100 OTR/£113,484 as tested/£1,982 pcm
WHY IT’S HERE
Is Porsche’s big SUV still a gamechanger 20 years on?
DRIVER
Rowan Horncastle
IT’S ONLY TAKEN OVER 1.25 MILLION SALES AND 20-SOMETHING years but TopGear is finally running a Porsche Cayenne as a long term test car Why haven’t we before? Being completely honest we’re not really sure Probably because we were too busy filling the garage with requests ‘real Porsches’ as internet naysayers would say
But remember keyboard warriors of the world Porsche’s SUV is the thing that saved the company from the financial grim reaper It’s the car that meant s and RS products could keep being pumped out of Zuffenhausen More than that it’s turned what was once an empty piggy bank into a properly stuffed one In one in three cars sold by Porsche was a Cayenne And that’s with people knowing a fresh upgrade was on the way
And here is that fresh upgrade the third generation Cayenne’s spruce up thanks to a new sharper face more screens upgraded suspension and some interesting engines With the base Cayenne priced at and the top of the range Turbo EHybrid Coupe GT costing the spread and spec of Cayenne you can choose from is vast So we’ve played it safe opting for the middle of the road Cayenne S Largely because of its engine but also because it’s a good representation of both ends of the spectrum
Now that engine See where most people are shrinking their cylinder counts and overall capacity for this generation of Cayenne S Porsche has done the opposite binning the litre twinturbocharged V that used to power it and lobbing in a revised litre twinturbo V that Porsche first developed with Audi back in
Our car’s Carmine Red paint kicks off some k worth of optional extras Sheesh All in all our Cayenne comes in at Which is steep Especially considering some elements of the spec don’t give you the impression it should cost that much More on that next month