Test drive Porsche Cayenne S 955 2002 - 2007 SUV

Three X

When the first BMW X5 appeared in Russia at the end of the last century, the purchase of this car was considered an extreme act. According to statistics, every second car owner to one degree or another was threatened to lose his possession. With the purchase of any of the Porsche existing at that time, there was approximately the same picture, only the causes of irrationalism were slightly different-without a threat of a collision with Dagestan gop-stoppers. Just a brand for us is mysterious, and you can ride nothing more than two, according to good asphalt and in the warm season.
Since then, a lot of gasoline has flowed. The BMW X5 has long been occupied by the left stripes of our roads, and their owners are no longer very afraid of someone, but they are simply afraid. As for Porsche, now an all -season car has appeared in the company's model line, and in Moscow you can not only drive it, but also serve it. Therefore, today the intrigue is different. When the X5 was invented in Munich, then if they looked back at anyone, then at the Mercedes-Benz ml. Porsche engineers and marketers did not hide that they wanted to furnish Bavarz. At least on the asphalt. So they compete, merging in their similarity and confusing a simple citizen on the question of what to take?.
At first there was a word
In fact, there is even a phraseological difference between cars. BMW calls its X5 only Sport Activity. The purpose of Cayenne was its creators formulated as Sport Utility. Sports, sportsbeks and other swift sheds are fashionable today. In order to emphasize this utilitarianism even more, on the back of Cayenne, they hung a spare tire, which is offered as an option. Visually, this made the car as if lower and longer. In the trunk, a little place was added, but now it is necessary to open the door in several tricks, because first you need to take the bracket with a spare wheel towards.
Since last December last year, all Cayenne for a fee can be equipped with an electric panoramic laminated glass hatch. Its area is about one and a half square meters, which is almost four times larger than the holes in the ceiling that was offered before. Another option is a retractable rear view camera that will reproduce everything that is happening behind the car in color. Maybe you are a voyeur. Although the press release offers other use options. For example, parking. This is very useful, because Porsche is not very good - the rear window is narrow, and the mirrors similar to the ears of the giracks are more beautiful than convenient. And the camera should also contribute to the safe attachment of the trailer. There is nothing to be surprised here. The Techart tuning company, which has long been specializing in Porsche reinforcement, not so long ago attached to it, iricked up to 510 hp, a cottage on wheels and dispersed the resulting road train to 231 km/h. You can imagine how the dishes thundered and splashed the liquid in the dry closet.
X-fifth is also fresher today. After all, the top version is 4.8is. It is curious that if Cayenne Turbo is with his 450 hp. The world near-automobile audience took with unprecedented enthusiasm, then X5, which has only 360 hp, commented on quite sourly.
Speaks and shows. It is believed that with its success, Cayenne owes the fact that the world is still a lively certain number of people who want to sit high and travel very quickly. They probably already had Porsche garage, but now they will not have to transplant from their favorite compartment to the same rapper tract to take the washing machine for repair. That is why Visually Cayenne S tries to be more likely to be like its stunted brothers on the brand than X5, say, for the five in the package of the station wagon.
The Porsche designed for decades has fit perfectly into the concept of an SUV - the roundness of the compartment easily fell on the first five -door body in the history of Porsche.
The front seats of BMW seemed more athletic to us-for some reason you fidget on Porsche. Behind in Cayenne S, on the contrary, you won’t soak up, the seats are hard.
And the cork is in the ceiling. It is curious that the appearance of cars to a certain extent corresponds to their character. Cayenne S - for nothing that more expensive is not a snob at all, but a completely democratic smiling character. But this democraticity is akin to the character of the London district of Chelsea - Nightbridge: one apartment is four floors and a smile. Kainenov is more here than in the whole of Zhukovka. X5 at the same time - a sullen alpine pragmatist who, like Nietzsche, refers to you down - a person is something that needs to be overcome.
Porsche has a very adequate reaction on the steering wheel and pedals - the car seems to say: the order was received and accepted for execution. A very pleasant feeling. This happens when you open a bottle of champagne: at first the cork goes tightly, proving that it honestly performed its functions and is not going to just jump out so easily, and after a fraction of the seconds already delicately, but persistently begins to get out itself. As for BMW, it is like opening a bottle of vodka: three screw -shaped movements with a brush and no surprises. The steering wheel and pedals simply disappear from the memory, and there is only confidence that let the arrogant, but executive car under you.
The main thing is not to overdo it. The fact that the relics of X5 4.8is are more than enough is even from the position of standing. You can not even turn off the electronic stabilizing systems and only half the gas is hollowing on the gas pedal, as the X5 will spin in the rolled snow with a wolf. You can scare neighbors in the yard very impressive. But if you squeeze the gas, for example, when overtaken, then it is not long to get scared of how it tries to run forward in the first second of food. But this is only in the first second - Xdrive redistributes the torque between the axes and for a couple of DSC clearly corrects your mistakes.
A huge torque, so useful on dry asphalt, makes you be especially careful in bad road conditions. Without the help of DCS or PSM, it becomes difficult to cope with the machine. The thrust between the front and rear axles of Cayenne S is distributed as 38:62. Porsche pneumatic suspension has three operating modes. We, of course, chose sports first. Twing from a row to a row and prescribing protracted bends of the highway is a real pleasure: an elastic, informative steering wheel is probably one of the main advantages of Cayenne S. But it is better to go in a comfortable mode on the pardon or tie the jaw so that the teeth do not knock.
Also, machines work in different ways. Porsche in manual mode, as soon as the arrow rises into the red zone, the box increases the gear. But she does not switch down even with a kik doward, please work with a palm or finger-the transmission can be surpassed by keys on the steering wheel. In manual mode, the box does not trust you in manual mode and does not give you the car: if the transmission does not comply with the turn, it itself switches both up and down.
The dynamic characteristics of cars vary slightly. Cayenne S has a little stew and power and moment, but the numbers specified in passport data, you can hardly feel in practice.
Taste receptors. In all other respects, you can trust the feelings. Cold pragmatism of BMW or the cheerful emotions of Porsche. Breaky growl a la Nascar rectangular pipes or a juicy song under the hood. Angular thoroughness or frivolous roundness. Someone likes bitchy brunettes, someone-soft blondes. And blindly or, sorry, tactile everything will be about the same thing.
Washings chief. Inside, everything was also rounded, cheerfully and unequivocally reminds of what brand you are in a car: the smooth lines of the seats, the oval of the instrument shield ... The steering wheel, by the way, is exactly the same as on the Porsche 911. The ignition lock- to the left of the steering column, so if if your previous car was the VAZ-2105, then you will not have to retrain. By the way, in the BMW there is a air suspension control unit at this place. Near the knees, on the sides of the central tunnel - hard handrails, many are indulging in this today - for example, the same can be found on the Audi A3.
On the central console there is a huge screen, but for some reason it does not show a TV program, unlike the BMW display. At the bottom of the console, a metal cap with the inscription Porsche. This branding immediately makes us remember that Porsche - This is not only cars for a long time. The inscription Design by F.A.Porsche can be found today on bags, glasses, on washbasins and other plumbing from Laufen and, of course, on household appliances from Siemens. Interestingly, in the course of the creators of the Porsche teapot, that the word kettle also has automobile meaning in Russia?
M5 on stilts. We will not deny ourselves the pleasure of bringing several quotes from English publications. This version is a parody of a diamond, which is a X5 with a three -liter turbodiesel. X5 4.8is is m5 on stilts. This is already quite for America. To get a respectful look from a black man with a kilogram chain on the neck traveling on the GMC track. After all, idiots do not understand that most of us want this! Even with pale St. Petersburg skin and without a gold chain!
By the way, the new engine is very recent face-lifting. Outwardly, the X-Fifth is even more advanced. Seeing this evil face in the rearview mirror, you don’t want, but you will twitch to the right. Even in the options of 2005 - again, a two -part hollow hatch of a huge size, aluminum thresholds and headlights that can look into a turn. Everything else is trifles. They like to include BMW in the basic configuration of the NAPPU-alkantar, but force to pay for each extra button on the radio. By the way, the very successful X-fifth salon did not undergo changes either during the face lifting, or after the appearance of a 4.8-liter engine under the hood.

Text Valery Chusov, Dmitry Gronsky, photo Andrey Danilov
 

Porsche Cayenne S.
 
Gasoline engine V8
Working volume (cubic cub) 4511
Power (L.S. at about/min) 340 at 6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 420 at 2500-5500
The permanent drive is complete
Gearbox 6-speed-reutomatic Tiptronic
Length/width/height (mm) 4782/1928/1699
Wheel base (mm) 2855
Equipped mass (kg) 2320
Maximum speed (km/h) 242
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 7.2
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 20.9/11.2
Price in Moscow from 81,100 ($ 107,000)

BMW X5 4.8is
 
The engine is gasoline in the next -head -cylinder
Working volume (cubic cub) 4799
Power (L.S. at about/min) 360 at 6200
Moment (nm at rpm) 500 at 3500
The permanent drive is complete
Gearbox 6-speedal-reutomatic STEPTRONIC
Length/width/height (mm) 4667/1925/1732
Wheel base (mm) 2820
Equipped mass (kg) 2275
Maximum speed (km/h) 246
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 6.1
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 18.7/10.5
Price in Moscow from 114 900 ($ 151 500)

 

Source: "Autopilot"