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Could anybody rationally explain the reasoning for buying a Porche 4x4 or its Volkswagon mate.They are not particully fast ,they are no good of road ,have no luggage space and are made in a assemble plant in Leipzig and if its monday it has a Porche badge etc.
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Until it is physically possible to drive around in an actual pile of money with wheels attached people will continue to buy the Porsche Cayenne.
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Matthew Kelly
No, not that one.
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Just give me a can of spray glue and a pile of fifty pound notes and I am sure I can create something ;-)
How about those bling bling wheels which are about several thousand pounds a set (the ones with the centres that stay still while the wheel moves)? Height of expensive vulgarity, a kind of a gold plated bernard manning if you will.
teabelly
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"How about those bling bling wheels which are about several thousand pounds a set (the ones with the centres that stay still while the wheel moves)? Height of expensive vulgarity, a kind of a gold plated bernard manning if you will."
Now I thought bling bling wheels had centres that continued to SPIN after coming to a halt.
And that would be a chrome plated bernard manning ;)
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Porsche is very fast and good on road, where they are primarily used. Cayenne Turbo does 0-62 in 5.6 secs and 165 mph. That's what I call FAST!!
Not really sure about the VW, but someone will no doubt comment.
Andy
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Same reason why you a a sizable number of Cayennes in Singapore, a flat island with good roads not more that 30 miles from end to end
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But If you want to go fast buy a 911 or a Corvette don't try to make a truck go fast
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One other point there is like or not a 70mph limit in the UK and 80 in Europe except for a few deresticted streches of autobahn in Germany
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Doesn't the top-end Touareg have the most torquey diesel unit fitted to any car? When various journalists were roadtesting it, it seemed to cope admirably offroad.
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Rationality has precious little do with it.
Some people like the higher sightlines that a 4x4 gives you and the perception of increased safety.
I occasionally borrow my BIL's Disco which is useful for towing but quite frankly carp at just about everything else.
Before Range Rovers and Disco's became automotive fashion statements, the safe car to have was a Volvo.
I remember countless motorcycle jokes about Volvo drivers were out to get us which I felt were quite true.
(I used to commute through Stoke Newington where most of the y**dish population used to have a Volvo and drove as if they were on the way to Specsavers).
Generalisation was that anyone who couldn't drive well would get a Volvo cos if you hit anything you'd always come off best.
If you've got the money and don't mind a compromise, then that's fine with me.
I'd drive anything with the VW V10 TDI as it couldn't be that slow but would prefer it in the Phaeton.
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Things like this ought to be banned from the roads...
... because they just give rise to IVxIV threads three times a week...
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Cayenne is a seriously ugly vehicle IMHO.
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but quite an atttractive one in my eyes. And also one I enjoyed driving fro a couple of hours.
I'm not sure I'd spend that kind of money, but my neighbour who traded a Landcruiser for one is very happy.
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Its the current equivalent of the use of the horse by the medieval gentry for marking status - out of my way, peasant! Given that archers etc did not show proper respect, riders were obliged to armour their steeds. Solid elements of armour such as chanfrons to protect the face of the horse, crinet for protecting the neck, peytrel for the chest, flanchard side protection and crupper for the rear of the horse. Now of course we simply add to the horse substitute, tow bars for rearward defensive manoeuvres, bull-bars for a forward impaling threat, and cancel all indicators to permit surprise lateral blocking.
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You kind of get used to it if you try.
But I couldn't be bothered.
And, not fast? Err, I test drove the "slow" one, the "S", round a track and I can tell you it was certainly wasn't not fast.
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I think they are the most ugly 4x4 on the road, as they are a bit late joining the bandwagon, where others have doing it for years.
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I'm old enough to remember what happened when the Porsche 924 first came out in the late 1970s. Pretty little car, but the fact that it was an inherited project with a four-cylindr, front-mounted engine led to the inevitable conclusion: it was a Volkswagen trying very hard to be a Porsche.
I, too, have had a lengthy run out in a Cayenne and while I wouldn't go that far with a vehicle that handles its brutish size remarkably well, it clearly isn't a design that Porsche would have come up with by choice. Its quick, it handles very well by class standards. It's also obese, unoriginal, unworthy.
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I saw a whole gaggle of these Cayennes in convoy last Sept, probably 15+, whilst walking the GR5 between St Gingolph (on the southern shore of Lac Leman) and Modane.The sighting was in Val d'Isere where unfortunately we had to overnight. The place was a ghost town, but fortunately the Cayennes made this godforsaken mechanical summer wasteland seem attractive by comparison.
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