This could be the first picture of the Porsche Cayenne - although company officials are refusing to confirm it.
The image is reported to have appeared on Porsche's online configurator website earlier today, before being hastily removed. A Porsche spokesman refused to comment on the pictures.
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Re: Porsche Cayenne 'pictured'
I agree with you. While the styling is hardly a classic in my opinion, if they are specced nicely, they can be quite nice looking. I do not think it is the monstrosity described by many readers. It reminds of the Ferrari 612 scaglietti reviews, where autocar said: "The most broadly talented Ferrari ever? Probably. If the 612 was beautiful — and every tester had reservations about the styling and aesthetics of the interior — this would undoubtedly be an effortless five-star car, for the dynamics and packaging deserve nothing less." Surely knocking the car from a effortless 5 stars to a 4 star verdict over its styling was a bit excessive on a subjective matter. Personally, I did not like the looks of the 612 until i saw a nice grey one in the flesh, and actually found it very appealling. Far more discreet than a bentley, which is a surprise for a Ferrari.
Also, having driven a previous generation Turbo, I have to agree with the others on this forum, it is quite simply an outstanding achievement to make 4x4 drive as well as this one does.
Re: Porsche Cayenne 'pictured'
Re: Porsche Cayenne 'pictured'
Having only driven a Cayenne on the road, and since I'm currently looking for something that will plug fields and do almost anything it's asked yet still work as a comfortable road car, I'd be genuinely interested if Autocar tested these 4x4s properly in boggy, hilly, rough, rocky, grassy conditions, et cetera.
Although I find the X5 good on the road (if now less chuckable than the previous model), from what I can make out, it's best avoided if you need all-terrain capability. I had to gather this impression from the ether, as, save for some of the articles in CAR Magazine, most major publications seem to fight shy of properly demonstrating the abilities of these cars.
In this context, unless it's as an aside, the 0-62 times of such leviathans simply don't interest me, yet the emphasis still seems to be on track performance. That arse-about-tittedness appeals only to the juvenile element who have no real-world interest in this sector.
A bit of adult perspective and post-hormonal commonsense needs to be imposed editorially, where the infantile drag racing videos are binned in favour of suitably ugly reviews, including all necessary grubbiness of the agricultural dimension.
The problem is that they never seem to do it, and it's frustrating, since I assume they're failing a lot of people.
As someone who's not ventured off-road that much, but has driven almost all of these barges on-road, in the absence of Autocar doing its job, I've appreciated the advice of some of you lot who know about that sort of thing. Still, though, it's difficult to get a very clear idea of the competency of cars like the Cayenne or Touareg versus the benchmark Range Rover or Discovery.
Although this may not be Offroader Weekly or whatever it's called, surely if Autocar appraises a car, it should do so in the environment for which the vehicle is allegedly designed.