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The news that Porsche has, at the very least, put all its diesel programmes on hold makes this new Cayenne Hybrid a car that's more important than usual.
If you want a Cayenne but care about taxation and running costs, this is the one you’re going to have to buy. Porsche denies that diesels have been ruled out of all future models, but it does say the entire strategy is "under review". So don’t hold your breath.
You’d have thought Porsche would just transfer the powertrain from the Panamera hybrid straight over; it fits and comes with four-wheel drive as standard. But no, the hybrid powertrains in a Panamera and this Cayenne are related but by no means the same. As we shall see, this brings news both good and bad for this luxury SUV.
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Blimey that front end is ugly
Blimey that front end is ugly. And seems like such an overblown, wasteful way to be 'eco'.
Plagiarism...
Quite. Lynx & Co should sue Porsche for their blatant plagiarism...
Keeping that price back till the last minute
There was alot of bile about when the all new £59k I-pace (similar size interally) got annonced so If this comes in at £90k it should get similar stick, especially being so much slower to 60
I must agree with al of you, folks...
...although I’d not entirely equivalate a Cayenne with a Touareg.
These pseudo-eco elephants represent anyway a mega-hypocrisy produced for the richest, mainly allowing them to access the inner-city zones, and not only in a Yaris Hybrid (as this restrictive rule appears in Italy lately -- don’t know the exact situation in the UK, but I guess it might be worse in London than Neaples. :-))