Road TestCar reviews - Porsche - Cayenne - SPorsche modelsOverviewPorsche’s Cayenne keeps street and dirt appeal but competition is getting fierce22 Jun 2015 By NEIL DOWLING IT IS too easy to file Porsche into the car basket without getting a handle on why its products are so expensive and so revered. There’s an awful lot of research and development in its models, a painful, pedantic, time-consuming and labour-intensive drudge of assembling tiny and often insignificant pieces that result, much later, as a very significant vehicle. The problem may be that in creating something extraordinary, Porsche chose with the Cayenne – and also with the Panamera – to mask it beneath a rather ordinary body style. Sales have been clipped, down 17.2 per cent year to date in 2015 to about 100 units a month, as BMW’s X5 takes the $70,000-plus SUV segment crown and others like the Mercedes ML-Class and Range Rover Sport bite into the remainder. Even Cayenne’s little sister, the Macan, is getting more attention. So is the Cayenne – the vehicle that surged Porsche into profit – still representative of the brand and a pertinent cog in the SUV market? Click here for the full review... GalleryClick to see larger images Model release date: 1 November 2014 All car reviewsAlfa Romeo Abarth Alpine Alpina Audi Aston Martin BMW Bentley Chevrolet Chery Citroen Chrysler Dodge Cupra Ferrari DS Ford Fiat FPV Foton GWM Great Wall Holden Haval HSV Honda Hyundai Hummer Isuzu Infiniti Jeep Jaguar Lamborghini Kia LDV Land Rover Lotus Lexus Maserati Mahindra McLaren Mazda Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-AMG Mini MG Nissan Mitsubishi Peugeot Opel Proton Porsche Renault Ram Rover Rolls-Royce Skoda Saab SsangYong Smart Suzuki Subaru Toyota Tesla Volvo Volkswagen |
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