Since its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show last month, additional details about the new “baby Cayenne” have been relatively scarce, and driving impressions have been even harder to come by. Fortunately, the folks at Autocar got a chance to ride shotgun in the Macan with some of Porsche’s engineers, putting the new SUV through its paces both on and off road.
Porsche has published a video featuring the Porsche Macan ahead of its November debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
But this, a Porsche SUV with a diesel engine, this, is the last straw. This is the vehicle that will make the over-wealthy lawyers and doctors of the world pay their underlings to storm Zuffenhausen, with the express purpose of burning it, and Stuttgart as a whole, to the ground.
Porsche has unveiled the newest member of its Cayenne SUV family, the Cayenne Diesel. Using a 240-horsepower, 3.0-liter V-6, the Cayenne Diesel’s big number is torque. With 406 pound-feet available at a low 1750 rpm, it’ll scoot to 60 miles per hour in 7.2 seconds before topping out at 135 miles per hour.
According to AutoEvolution, the upcoming Porsche Cayenne GTS won’t show at the Geneva Motor Show as originally anticipated, but will instead arrive at the 2012 Paris Motor Show, which takes place from September 29 to October 14.
Today, Porsche released details and some images about the newest and most efficient addition to its hybrid lineup, the 2011 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid.
Porsche has announced the redesigned 2011 Cayenne ahead of its official debut at the Geneva Motor Show.
If a nonsensical vehicle like the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S tickles your fancy, you may want to leave space on your bedroom wall for another drool-worthy pinup. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the BMW X5M. It has 555 horsepower, it runs a tuned version of BMW’s xDrive all-wheel-drive system, and it costs $85,400—that’s a whopping $40,900 less than the starting price of Madam Cayenne. And if you immediately think to yourself, “Well, clearly this is because the Porsche is a superior vehicle,” you’ll want to think again. The X5M is as good to drive as it is unnecessary to own.
We’ve personally been present at all of the Panamera events leading up to today’s long awaited drive and we can say honestly that the Porsche luxury liner has looked better and better to us with each walk-around. Whether witnessing in the clouds above Shanghai, in the passenger seat at the company’s Weissach tech center, or driving it here in the Bavarian Alps, we are now certain that the Panamera is at the very least a trueblood modern day Porsche.