Put the words Porsche and Turbo together, and the result tends to be one of blazing quickness. For the new Cayenne Turbo, that phenomenon has not changed. Blessed with a 4.8-liter twin-turbo V8 that shakes the earth with 500 horsepower and a whopping 700 Nm, the hottest of Porsche peppers fires from 0 to 100 km/h in roughly 4.7 seconds yet delivers estimated fuel economy equaling that of last year’s V6.
The exterior of the new Cayenne follows in Porsche’s philosophy of evolutionary design, but the new model does feature a much sleeker appearance than the current Cayenne, thanks to more organic body lines.
With a redesigned interior, following Panamera cues, the new Cayenne sports a new and longer center console and a repositioned shift-knob. Overall, nearly everything has been freshened and tweaked, including placement of the center air vents, sportier gauges and a new steering wheel.
With 500 hp at 6,000 rpm, the Cayenne Turbo possesses the sort of power reserves to make some so-called supercars appear almost tame by comparison. All it takes to breech the sort of speed limits posted in the Netherlands is a slight brush of the throttle, even at low revs in high gears.
Frankly, the new Porsche is astonishingly fast by any standard, let alone those of your typical luxury SUV. Factory figures suggest it will accelerate from a standstill to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.7 seconds, 0.2 second quicker than before. In comparison, the Porsche 911 Carrera requires 4.9 seconds. Even more impressively, the Cayenne Turbo doesn’t quit until it reaches 278 km/h.
What Porsche has done with the new Porsche Cayenne Turbo is provide an emphatic answer to those who questioned whether there was a future for high-powered luxury SUVs. By retaining its high levels of performance and road-holding while combining them with a sizable reduction in weight and big gains in fuel economy, the Cayenne Turbo proves you can have your cake and eat it, too.
You can read the full (Dutch) review over at Rijtesten.nl…
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