Driven | 2024 Porsche Cayenne S Coupé

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Since it was launched successful 2002, implicit 1,250,000 units of the Porsche Cayenne person been sold contributing to much than 30% of full income truthful yes the Cayenne is simply a immense occurrence communicative for the brand.

More than 95,000 Cayennes were sold successful 2022 truthful erstwhile an updated exemplary is available, determination is simply a batch of keen involvement astir the satellite and Porsche South Africa kindly flew america retired to Austria to beryllium the archetypal to illustration the E3.II variant.

The refreshed Cayenne arrives with a highly digitalised show and power concept, caller chassis exertion and innovative high-tech features. “It’s 1 of the astir extended merchandise upgrades successful the past of Porsche,” says Michael Schätzle, Vice President of the Cayenne merchandise line.

Visually the 2024 Cayenne update is much evolutionary than revolutionary. The basal plan conception is mostly the same, with lightly resculpted fenders and a caller hood design. The headlights (Matrix LED Headlights are present modular successful the caller Cayenne) are besides caller and person been shaped to amended align with the company’s different offerings similar the Taycan. At the different end, you volition find a caller acceptable of 3D process lights and a redesigned fascia which unclutters the rear extremity portion besides integrating the licence sheet holder.

Inside sees immoderate of the much salient changes with inspiration drawn from the tech-focused Taycan. The caller dash present comes with a cardinal 12.3-inch infotainment surface and a caller 12.6-inch curved gauge display. Should you wish, you tin now, for the archetypal time, adhd a 10.9-inch touchscreen to support the rider entertained. The SUV’s steering instrumentality has been replaced by 1 borrowed from the 911 sports car, and the gearshift toggle moves to the dashboard opening up immoderate much retention abstraction successful the centre console and allowing for a larger and much intuitive aerial conditioning controller.

The full Cayenne scope gets an summation successful power but the header quality is that the S models driblet the V6 for a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 delivering 468 hp (349 kW) and 600 Nm of torque.

As standard, Porsche volition equip the Cayenne with a alloy outpouring suspension including Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM). Should you wish, you tin adhd the caller adaptive aerial suspension with 2-chamber, 2-valve exertion offering an adjacent sharper differentiation betwixt Normal, Sport and Sport Plus driving modes.

So what is it similar to drive? We were fortunate to beryllium handed the keys to a Cayenne S Coupé for 85% of the thrust truthful let’s absorption connected that. Also, it has a V8 and who doesn’t emotion a V8?

Firing up the Cayenne S is instantly rewarding acknowledgment to that throaty growl from the eight-cylinder nether the hood. Power has been hiked by 34 hp (25 kW) and torque by 50 Nm which allows the SUV to tally to 100 km/h successful conscionable 4.7 seconds. The bump successful powerfulness whitethorn beryllium comparatively tiny but it is instantly noticeable aft a speedy tally connected immoderate mint Austrian tarmac. It feels much urgent erstwhile you request it to beryllium and acknowledgment to much torque astatine little revs, the V8 besides provides the Cayenne with a much relaxing thrust astatine road speeds.

Porsche makes definite their cars are not conscionable speedy and refined successful a consecutive enactment and this caller Cayenne is nary objection to that. It points superbly good into corners and the electromechanical steering is arsenic precise arsenic 1 could want. At 2,100 kg, the Cayenne is not what you would telephone a lightweight, but its quality to transportation important velocity into corners and support much than capable grip makes it alternatively engaging to thrust connected immoderate sweeping roads.

Without a nonstop examination to the existent Cayenne, it’s reasonably tricky to accidental for definite what the suspension modifications person done but their engineers are convinced that moving backmost to dual-chamber aerial suspension gives the car amended thrust compliance and improved assemblage control.

To the recognition of the Porsche engineers, and the existing Cayenne, it did not request overmuch updating to support it up of its contention but arsenic always, they person managed to amended connected an already precise polished product.

From the caller tech-focused interior to the suspension updates and the engine, each of the 2024 Cayenne’s updates marque an already superb SUV adjacent better.

Yes, we volition beryllium seeing an adjacent larger, three-row SUV offering to apical the lineup but until then, the Cayenne is the apical dog.

The archetypal units are expected to onshore successful South Africa towards the mediate of the twelvemonth with pricing for the updated Cayenne arsenic follows;

Cayenne – R1,848,000
Cayenne E-Hybrid – R2,194,000
Cayenne S – R2,125,000
Cayenne Coupé – R1,933,000
Cayenne E-Hybrid coupé – R2,259,000
Cayenne S Coupé – R2,232,000
Cayenne Turbo GT – R4,128,000