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Porsche Cayenne GTS 2008
Six years on and this ugly mass of metal badged by Stutgart is more of a ridiculous extravagance than ever and oh yes, you want one!
Of course you need sports car performance on a tractor-size object and why not have leather and Alcantara upholstery for your kids to mosaic with playdough and chocolate buttons? It may be a more suitable family vehicle than your 911 but you’ve still got to have the superfluous extras. That’s not just a great big 4.8-litre V8 by the way but also highly tuned dynamics. If you’ve ever driven a Cayenne then you’ll understand how you could pay a blind eye to its badly hidden bulges. Stuffy and awkward though the Cayenne may appear; frivolity is beyond every seemingly disproportionate curve. The new GTS, launched at Frankfurt next week is by no means an exception, it slots in between the Cayenne S and the more powerful Turbo version, the latter of which it emanates visually. Size and bling are the main components here and with two new colours (GTS Red and Nordic Gold Metallic) as well as 21” alloys and flared wheel arches, there’s a bit more flash for your cash.
Now being built around the same platform as the Volkswagen Touareg and the Audi Q7 doesn’t exactly make the Cayenne sound posh. That said; the platform is just the beginning. There are of course clear advantages here for Porsche; it is after all a brand that employs a very orthodox set of sporting values and has the budget to develop, well anything it wants to really. First let’s take the Porsche Active Suspension Management which adjusts the ride height to give you extra ground clearance off road and a lower centre of gravity on road, it’s a graceful transition of course and on other Cayennes we’ve driven feels very sophisticated. The steel springs featured on the GTS are also used on Stutgart’s finest sports cars and in this case allow the Cayenne’s chassis to hover 24mm closer to the tarmac. You also get different damper settings so that this SUV can be more accommodating when it comes to rough terrain and then respond more like a 911 on smoother tarmac due to its stiffer set-up.
Obviously the list of electronic aids doesn’t end there; you’ve also got Porsche Traction Management (PTM), permanent all-wheel drive and Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (PDCC). You can then specify Air Suspension instead of springs which apparently gives you better control of the loads on your Cayenne and therefore makes it safer and easier to handle. When you’ve got all this technology at your fingertips however, it feels a bit of a waste not to know how to maximise it. Well as with all Automotive purchases from Porsche there is a Driving Experience Programme thrown in with your purchase of £54,350. The first deliveries of the GTS will be in February 2008 so if your planning a skiing trip to the Alps around then and sitting at the back of a coaching sweating as the driver hurls the front axel in to yet another corkscrew apex then bare this in mind.
Wet winter Sundays will also be transformed should you wish to visit the track and allay some of those curiosities. The GTS has 405bhp to chuck around and 500Nm of torque so there’s plenty of power there to exploit. It comes with a standard six-speed manual gearbox and a shorter axel final drive ratio than the Cayenne S which in turn gives it a 0.5 second quicker acceleration time of 6.1 seconds from 0-62mph. If a Tiptronic S six speed automatic transmission sounds more appealing to you then this is on the options list. You’ll get an average of 20.3 miles to the gallon out of the automatic version which isn’t particularly impressive but then if you want an SUV with outstanding performance then expect to pay posh prices.
