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“Turbo” used to strictly imply “turbo.” Now it also implies “a lot more cylinders.”
How far can 1 wander from Porsche’s vaunted 930 but nonetheless wear the capital-t “Turbo” badge? The 2015 Cayenne Turbo is probably the answer. Reduce from the exact same midcycle-refresh cloth as the 6-pot Cayenne S, the Turbo adds a pair of cylinders to that model’s equation. Before this year, the Turbo was the only path to a pair of escargot, but the S has now downsized from a naturally aspirated V-8 to a slightly uprated version of the Macan Turbo’s twin-turbocharged V-6 engine. (Confusingly, the Macan S also attributes a twin-turbo V-6.)
So at this point, Porsche may as properly badge its Turbo-branded utes as “Very Turbo.” Echt Turbo? You see, the Cayenne Turbo’s double-puffed V-8 delivers up 520 horsepower. If you’re maintaining track, that’s just about double the output of this original 911 Turbo. An ’86 930 tipped our scales at 3040 pounds. The modern SUV adds actually a ton of additional mass, weighing in at an estimated 5200 pounds.
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Of course, the 930 was frequently derided/admired as a widow-maker, with tricky understeer-into-oversteer traits exacerbated by early engine-management technologies (study: turbo lag). The Cayenne suffers from no such concerns. The only eventful factor about wheeling the prime-spec Porsche ute is the quickness with which the needle sweeps the speedo’s face.
The Cayenne Turbo’s driver-focused cockpit—which is quickly familiar to anyone who’s driven a current 911, Panamera, or Boxster—may effectively deliver the most special knowledge in the Porsche line. Exclusive since it is a small much more like autos not constructed by Porsche. You cannot wholly mask bulk, and the 2.5-ton Turbo certainly has its share. You can, nonetheless, make bulk do quite astonishing items these days. Much better living by way of chemistry and all that.
Although it’s not as visceral an accelerative encounter as the ripping (and significantly less pricey) Range Rover Sport Supercharged—even as the Porsche is likely a tick quicker—the Turbo displays a composed serenity in situations where a BMW X5 M would feel brittle and stiff. It’ll waft up to speed like a Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, stick its nose into a hairpin, and track via in a way that absolutely nothing this best-heavy actually has a proper to.
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Although the Panamera Turbo gets Porsche’s exceptional PDK dual-clutch transmission, the Cayenne that shares its motor makes due with an 8-speed slushbox with a tendency to hammer home shifts punctuated by a chassis-juddering thwunk. It’s completely out of character with the rest of the strop-honed refinement displayed by the vehicle, and especially jarring when it happens midcorner. The unsettledness is a nano-momentary thing, and the underpinnings are surely capable of keeping the machine on course, but the behavior is slightly unnerving at speed. The trans, even though, is the sole flaw in an otherwise wholly bulletproof suit of mountain-warfare armor.
Other entries in the super-SUV class demand your faith by way of mathematics. The Cayenne Turbo earns it by placing you right away at ease on surfaces strong, slippery, and/or frangible. That prime-of-the-pile self-assurance comes with a cost, though—in this case at least $ 114,595.
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