Is Porsche trying to make up for past sins? Porsche purists don’t like the original Cayenne. They see it as a Volkswagen used to cash in on the SUV craze. So next to come from Porsche, after the Panamera is launched, will a new Cayenne aimed at redemption. This time not only will it offer more fuel-efficient options, but it will also be a more performance-oriented model.
The future Cayenne will be built on the Touareg platform (and won’t be moved on the Q5’s one as previously reported,) but it will be considerably smaller than the existing vehicle. This will mean the future Cayenne will compete with models like Lexus RX, Mercedes GLK and BMW X3.
Under the hood there will be both V6 and V8 engines in both naturally aspirated and turbo forms. A diesel and hybrid option are also expected, both of which will be shared with the upcoming Panamera. The base V6 version will have an output of 278 hp, while the top version will go up to 502 hp. The 0 to 60 mph sprint will be made in less than five seconds for top end models and top speed will go up to 180 mph.
It seems that this year the couple Schwarz-Schulz of Team Germany with their Porsche Cayenne S is invincible. Being the fastest in the Transsyberia Rally 2008 for the fourth time in row brought them the second place in the general classification and an increasing distance from their direct competitor. The Lavieille-Borsotto team of France, the number one in the classification, finished the leg 17 minutes behind Schwarz and Schulz. The second place in the race was gained by Kern and Daniel van Kan of Team Germany 3 who left behind Darvi and Altai with 4 minutes.
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Latest spy shots revealed that Porsche is already working on a new generation Cayenne that is set to be released in 2010. As usual it will compete with the next generation Touareg that will be revealed at the end of 2010 and the next generation Audi Q7 that will debut sometime in 2013.
The 2010 Cayenne will be shorter than the current model and will look less like an SUV and more like a Porsche. It will have a more muscular and elegant appearance, and in the same time will feature a more steeply raked windshield, shorter greenhouse and blacked-out B- and C-pillars.
Under the hood Porsche will place the same engine line-up as in the current model, with the top version to get around 500 hp. There will also be a hybrid version, that is supposed to have a fuel economy of 26.8mpg.
It looks like Team Germany 1 car driven by Armin Schwarz and Andi Schulz have lost the lead in front of Team France car driven by Christian Lavieille and Francois and Pedro Gameiro and Pedro Figueiredo (Team Portugal). The French team and their
Porsche Cayenne S, finished the 10th leg, and one of the toughest, on the first place with an advantage of over 4:15 minutes in front of the Portuguese team. Team Germany1 had some bad luck: they were in the lead but after they missed a checkpoint, a one-hour penalty was received which led them to the third position.
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Porsche seems to be hard at work on their second-generation Cayenne. Although the car received a major facelift last year, Porsche is already looking to have a replacement in showrooms by 2010. As you can predict from this shot, as well as from the renderings last week, the new look should be more about evolution than revolution. The looks may suggest that the new SUV will share more visual traits with its future big-brother Panamera (they also will share the factory at Leipzig, Germany.)
Unlike other car companies who are slowing down the development of SUVs due to fuel concerns, Porsche is looking to get its big car out there while there still are customers. Porsche intends to add diesel and hybrid options to power the new Cayenne. Although these engines are something that it has talked about for years before fuel was worldwide concern, Porsche definitely wants to continue get the word out about the Cayenne’s greener alternatives.
Just like the original, the new Cayenne will share the platform with Volkswagen’s new Touareg. Also just like the original, this Cayenne will beat the VW to the market —Porsche want to debut in the beginning of 2010, while the Touareg will wait until the end of that year. The third SUV based on this platform, the Audi Q7, will likely not have a replacement until 2013 since it was already late to the SUV game.
It seems that the Schwarz and Schulz couple of Team Germany 1 is in coming age this year. After winning the first and the fifth leg of the Transsyberia Rally they took another challenge: to take the first place at the sixth special stage, held just today close to the capital of Novosibirsk. With their 385 hp Porsche Cayenne S it wasn’t very hard for them to surpass the French team, Christian Lavieille and Francois Borsotti, by 4.14minutes. This special drive was held on 78 km of small country roads with steady , tight and curved portions.
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Yesterday we were talking about the great results of the Porsche Cayenne vehicles in the Transsyberia Rally. Today, in the 4th leg of the rally nothing seems to change, the Porsche vehicles remained in the first positions, only the drivers changed their places as it follows: Sergey Kvashnin and Alexey Pavlovskiy, drivers of the Team Russia 2 were in the lead and 12 seconds back was Armin Schwarz and Andi Schulz, or Team Germany 1.
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As you know, Porsche is already working on the next generation Cayenne that will be launched in 2010. And here’s how it might look like. It will compete, like always, with the Volkswagen Touareg the Audi Q7.
The Cayenne will be the first of the three new SUVs with a release date of about the first half of 2010. Touareg will be replaced at the end of 2010, while the Q7 sometime in 2013.
The new Cayenne will address fuel efficiency issues with a hybrid and diesel model in the line-up.
Few days ago we were speaking about the beginning of the 2008 edition of the Transsyberia Rally. By the end of the leg two of the rally Team Germany 1 car, driven by Armin Schwarz and Andi Schulz, was with five seconds faster than the Porsche Cayenne driven by Denis Levyatov and Sergey Talantsev from Team Porsche Russia 1. On the third place at the end of the second leg of the rally was the Spanish team Paul Soler and Laia Peinado also in a Porsche Cayenne S Transsyberia.
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For those who don’t know, the Transsyberia Rally is the toughest marathon rally for near-standard offroad vehicles taking place from the Red Square in Moscow, Russia to the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. The 7,000 km of the rally take the participants through the subartic forests, up to the Altai Mountains and the Gobi Desert.
Today at 11.20 hours the first vehicles left the Red Square in Moscow in order to compete in the 7,000 km journey to Mongolia. The Porsche Cayenne Transsyberia with starting number 1 belongs to Ryan Millen and his co-driver Colin Godby from the Team Porsche Cars North America. Millen, got the first number due to the fact that his father Rod secured overall victory last year.
Millen’s race will definitely not going to be an easy one because the other drivers from Porsche camp will include the ex-European champion Armin Schwarz and his co-driver Andi Schulz from Team Germany, but also Lars Kern and his co-driver Daniel van Kan. Stay tuned, more news about the Transsyberian Rally are set to come!
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