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JULY 17, 2015
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HOT PROPERTY: Porsche’s heavyweight diesel punches above even its own considerable weight.
Porsche’s classy new Cayenne Diesel S
resolved than the earlier cars and is less bloated looking. Inside is very Porsche and that includes Stuttgart’s very unfortunate obsession with a button for everything. If you think the Macan has lots of buttons, the Cayenne matches the price differential by supplying even more buttons for your buck. This sort of thing makes car journalists squeal because when you’ve only got a week to learn what they all do, it’s a race DJDLQVW WLPH WKDW¬V GLI² FXOW WR ZLQ Standing back and thinking about it, most owners will be perfectly happy after a week or two.
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climate control, front and rear parking sensors and rear camera, keyless entry, electronic dampers, hill descent control, cruise control, cooled glovebox, sat-nav, bi-xenon active headlights, auto lights and wipers, partial leather seats, sunroof, air suspension and tyre pressure monitoring. On top of the standard features, ours had a full leather interior ($7690), Yachting Mahogany Interior ($6590 and is what it sounds like), Yacht Mahogany heated wood steering wheel ($1450, ditto), 21-inch wheels ($5610), soft close doors ($1790), black roof rails ($1390), panoramic glass
roof ($1190), saddle brown seat belts ($1090), compass ($760), Porsche logos on the headrests ($450) and monochrome black exterior package ($450). This made a grand total of $173,300. A purely subjective opinion: the mahogany you can probably do without, along with the brown seat belts. That’s not a comment on the quality, either – in isolation, it’s very pretty wood. There’s no getting away from it, the Cayenne looks like a big car because it is. With big wheels and a big gaping grille, the Cayenne has street presence few cars can match. It’s still not the looker one would expect of the Porsche, but this second-generation version is much better
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Road Test By PETER ANDERSON
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The Porsche Cayenne is a whopper. It’s a big, heavy SUV with tons of room for the family and a badge to keep the neighbours talking. It’s also got a planet-bending V8 diesel engine and an air-suspended chassis that has to be felt to be believed. The Cayenne Diesel S kicks off at a startlingly reasonable (hey, it’s all relative) $144,800. Perhaps against type, there’s a lot of stuff packed into the Cayenne and you could cheerfully go without ticking a single box on the breathtakingly long options list. The standard car carries a 14-speaker stereo, 20-inch alloys, power everything including steering column, dual-zone