Porsche Cayenne test drive since 2010 SUV

ENFANT TERRIBLE

270 thousand Porsche Cayenne first generation sold in the world

Porsche Cayenne peculiar Anfan Terring Russian roads, a measured of human success and part -time the most terrible stream neighbor, constantly putting others in an extremely awkward, and sometimes even dangerous position. In another way, this car is no longer perceived and, probably, they will not perceive. There is no chance even for the new version, it will still remain the same unbearable child.

Although, to be honest, any person who has shown the German crossover risks turning into such a badly. It is not a fact that the transformation will be instant. But this is a given, which will not work, you just need to come to terms. Even if the debutant deliberately behave like an English aristocrat in order to separate from these barbarians, discrediting the good name Porsche. Then he will simply catch himself thinking that the rest for some reason go slower and a look at the speedometer, believe me, will be the last in the list of possible reasons.

By the way, the Germans did everything so that it happened: to see the current readings on the dial, the dimensions of which hardly exceed the diameter of the traditional coffee cup, the most perfect utopia. Firstly, it has only six divisions, including the face value 0 and a maximum of 250. Secondly, a whole third of the circle is allotted for this useless device. Understanding generosity, especially when you consider that the neighboring tachometer is larger, if not an order of magnitude, then at times for sure. And so in any Cayenne, whether it is a version with a Nepasian hybrid and a turbodiesel or with a 300-horsepower V6 base.

Under our hood, however, a whole V8 was listed. Atmospheric. But in order to fully spoil the reputation, it is enough. In each cylinder of this motor, 600 cubes, that is, about 40% of the average weighted compact hatchback. Plus fifty branded rope heads. Which herd is ultimately available in aggregate, one can not even count, especially since the number of horses in such cars perhaps stimulates sales. The indicator of the torque is much more important. And this is 500 nm no less than in another, not the smallest turbodiesel. And those 5.9 seconds that leave the two -ton Cayenne S for exchange of the second hundred on the speedometer.
 
Slowly? Drink the pedal to the floor. It already becomes terribly 80 km. The flow of traction, if not crazy, is at least swift. And, importantly, endless. At least up to 140150 km/h. It is clear that sound, inertia and settings of an 8-speed box, but the sensations are unforgettable play an important role here.

The guys from Porsche, by the way, at one time was counting on this. Their main terms of fact was to make a large American crossover that would have traveled almost like the 911th. Moreover, most of today's competitors simply did not exist. Already after the Range Rover Sport, and Infiniti FX, and the Audi Q7 and in the completely undeveloped segment of the luxury crossovers, only X5 and Lexus RX, ready to be almost alone annually, were almost used to master hundreds of extra client millions. With the second generation, it turned out to be more complicated. In parallel, Mark tried to cope with the crisis and redeem the related VW. It was not possible to fully realize either the other, but although the new Cayenne turned out to be really new.

He, as usual, has grown. And he stopped being a tuareg. The platform is the same, however, the all -wheel drive system was facilitated to the limit. Clients that gravitated to the Austrian-German autobahns did not appreciate either the presence of a demultiplitor, nor a permanent all-wheel drive, so that in the current generation they completely got rid of the first, and the second was replaced by the connected. In general, technically, Porsche became closer to the Audi Q7, where the all -wheel drive transmission is aimed at increasing dynamic control, not patency.

Visually, the car turned out to be very controversial. Cayenne has always been rude and brutal, but at the same time it was similar only to himself, it was simply unrealistic to confuse it with a similar sneakers. The first Cayenne, but not the second. It so happened that for the first time your correspondent saw him in the most democratic traffic jam of our country at the entrance to the Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway. Considering that at that time only a few thousand people in the world at that time were seen at that time, and in our country the price tag was not announced, it took ten seconds to identify the brand. The same is the same for an attempt to raise the jaw, since traditionally abstract Korean feed with the Porshe nameplate shakes the hard Gethumer.

It is clear that this happened exclusively with Cayenne thanks to Panamera and the new generation of the 911st, where such rear lights, as well as the smoothly smooth body contours, are quite appropriate. But after the primitive-simple and understandable stern of the predecessor

With the profile and a front hand, there are no problems, from these positions the second Cayenne Porsche to the bone brain. More precisely, from the top of the head to the heels. It looks cool. And fresh, which is important. It’s a pity, almost all Porsche is now on one face. In the literal and figurative sense. The branded headlights, the corresponding frog profile of the front hand, put in a row the already mentioned Panamera, Boxter, Cayenne. In fact, the difference is only in minor details, height and thickness of the bumper. Everything else is unified as possible. In Cayenne, even horizontal stripes of LEDs were inserted as headlights. Which is probably in vain. If, in any case, equipped with such a BOXTER lighting technique, then at the sight of this crossover, for some reason, the Audi Q7 is immediately recalled and, frankly, it becomes boring.

You can't say this about the interior. Inside, this car looks an order of magnitude better than outside. The originality here zero has already tried all this on Panamera, albeit not in the same forms. But pathos and deliberate the pretentiousness of this car, no doubt, to the face. Millions paid for it literally oozes through the upholstery, skin. They are in the air. There will never be such a smell of such a smell in 90% of the cars produced today, and from the awareness of this fact, many Porsche owners seem to catch their own buzz. And this is not the only source of pleasure.

You sit in the Cayenne salon as in an airplane chair. And the point is not even in comfort (it is in abundance here), but in the number of different buttons, switches and toothproists. It seems that you will have to deal with them for months. But this is at first. The Germans did not load them with excess functions, so the driver, in fact, must only remember what is responsible for.

However, you can not remember. Porsche cockpit is the most convenient of all that came across your correspondent over the past few years (with all due respect to the big German three). You can use 60% of the keys without taking off your hands from the armrest, the rest (climate control and navigation) are usually tuned in the parking lot. And in general, on the go, the average weighted driver, by and large, will be needed perhaps the buttons responsible for the reactions of the transmission, the rigidity of the pendants and the operation of the engine, which are generally placed at the base of the KP lever.

The Stop-Start system is also tied here. Cracking, by the way, a thing: you stop for more than 10 seconds, the engine is jamming, clicking on the gas starts up. At first there were fears that she would stupid at the start. However, in general, at the time of acceleration, it affects only with a completely selected gas pedal. In standard situations, it is quite capable of maximum efficiency to realize the inclinations of the motor. It’s just not clear why it is put on Cayenne S and an even more powerful Turbo. For the for theoretical saving of fuel? It is unlikely that Porsche has a turbodiesel and even a hybrid for this. Who would have thought


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SPECIFICATIONS
Porsche Cayenne New
Dimensions (mm) 4846x1939x1705
Wheel base (mm) 2895
Road clearance (mm) 210
Mass (kg) 2030
Trunk volume (L) 5801690
Slave. engine volume (cm3) 3598
Max. Power (L.S.) 300
Max. Twisting the moment (Nm) 400
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km/h) 230
Acceleration 0100 km/h (c) 7.8
Cf. fuel consumption (l/100 km) 9.9
Price (rub.) From 3 103,000


Cayenne is current
time is the most popular Porsche car, but the most fast in every sense was presented at the MMAS-2010 Porsche 911 GT2 RS. Its opposition six gives out 620 hp, allowing the sports car to accelerate to 100 km/h in 3.5 seconds. But the main thing is that 911 GT2 RS managed to overtake all his relatives not only on the track: within two months, dealers sold all 500 copies. Nothing was sold in the history of Porsche. By the way, there is also our compatriot in the list of customers. True, one.

Competitors

Everything for sports
BMW X6 derivative from x5. The Germans prefer to call it a sports-active compartment. Of course, this car is no more democratic than Porsche. But not more expensive. In Russia, X6 is equipped with six power units, moreover, a version with conventional units gather in Kaliningrad. Activehybrid and X6 M top -top steam is 100% imported. The gap between these modifications and the most powerful local version of X6 XDRive50i is 1 million and 1.5 million rubles, respectively. Nevertheless, x6 m is still a million rubles cheaper than Cayenne Turbo.

APOLOGIST
Range Rover Sport, in fact, is a Land Rover response to the appearance of the BMW X5 and the same Cayenne, designed to protect the company's positions from impending competitors. Ideologically, this is a lightweight version of the full -sized Range Rover, but it was created on a simpler platform from Land Rover Discovery. He has only two gasoline and turbodiesel engines, they differ only in the degree of forcing. However, most of the Sport client attracts relatively democratic prices. The basic at a generally accepted level (slightly less than 3 million rubles), while the top SuperCharged is estimated at 3.6 million rubles.

LOCOMOTIVE
Infiniti fx for a long time has existed all. But it was the number of imported machines that ultimately made the company to come to the market officially. And also slightly finalize the car. The car was originally considered American, but domestic customers among its main shortcomings were called weak brakes and not enough driver suspension. The Japanese heeded the requests and worked on the corresponding nodes. As a result, FX today looks quite worthy even against the background of BMW and Porsche. The basic price tag is quite lifting from 2.5 million rubles.
 

Source: Mkobil magazine [November/2010]