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Maximum spice, maximum price.
2 model years in, Porsche has determined that its Cayenne Turbo S just wasn’t sufficiently excessive, so here’s the 2016 edition, going even additional more than the best in pursuit of, nicely, more. So a lot much more that the company claims the huge beast can lap the Nürburgring in 7 minutes, 59 seconds, making it the first SUV to break the 8-minute barrier and eclipsing the 8:14 lap Range Rover was touting final summer season for its Range Rover Sport SVR. Fairly impressive, even if Porsche’s frequent references to the Cayenne as a “4-door sports car” kept reminding us of the 4DSC stickers on 1990s Nissan Maximas.
In our test of the 2014 Cayenne Turbo S, we marveled at an SUV boasting “550 freakin’ horsepower”—a figure the Variety Rover has given that matched and BMW has exceeded (with its 567-hp X5 M). Clearly, Stuttgart would have to do one thing. So now, thanks to having its dual turbochargers integrated into the exhaust manifold exactly where they can provide increase much more speedily and efficiently, the Porsche’s number is 570 freakin’ horsepower. Torque also increases by 37 lb-ft to a thoughts-boggling 590 lb-ft Porsche Traction Management, all-wheel drive, and a torque-vectoring rear axle help provide it to the road.
Porsche claims fuel efficiency is “improved,” as properly, but then acknowledges that the 2016 Turbo S gets the identical Euro-cycle combined mileage ratings as just before. Due to the fact if you make more energy with the identical amount of fuel, yes, technically your efficiency has improved. The earlier model delivered 15 mpg in our test.
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Not that buyers who opt for the maximum dose of Cayenne pepper are most likely to get squeamish over the cost of the premium-grade unleaded the 4.8-liter V-8 ingests. The base MSRP has ballooned to $ 158,295, but the Turbo S now comes standard with carbon-ceramic mega-brakes (with 10-pot calipers up front, 4-piston units in back), whereas the older model charged $ 8840 for that selection (with mere 6-piston front grabbers). In no way worry, although: Porsche’s remaining array of costly customizations ($ 1640 carbon-fiber grab handles, any person?) make it easy to push the bottom line up into the $ 200,000 zone.
Physics Amended But Not Suspended
All this arrives in U.S. dealerships by April, alongside the 2016 Cayenne GTS. As with that model, our initial turn behind the wheel of a Turbo S came in northern Sweden in and about Skellefteå, a hockey-crazed town that has made several star players. It is also the birthplace of Stieg Larsson, the late author of the Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Porsche didn’t mention this factoid, perhaps due to the fact Larsson’s villains were the extremely wealthy industrialists and bankers most likely to figure amongst Cayenne Turbo S buyers.
Skellefteå was founded as a mining town—suitably adequate, there’s gold (and silver, and copper) in those snow-covered hills. When our drive route pointed up one grade that looked fairly cost-free of icy perils, we slammed the gas pedal to the floor and were rewarded with a near-instant surge of energy and a lightning-quick downshift from the 8-speed automatic gearbox—we couldn’t have paddled down from eighth gear to third as swiftly as the electronics did it in Sport mode. The V-8’s growl and the quick surge forward lasted only a moment before the electronics intervened. There’s only so much that technology can do, and generating traction exactly where there is not a lot is not inside its purview, regardless of the driving habits frequently exhibited by 4-by-4 owners in winter.
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When we got off the open road and onto the Skellefteå Drive Center, we could turn off all the electronic assists, dial up Sport Plus and tromp aggressively on the go pedal. On an iced skidpad, this made for lovely 4-wheel-drifting action but not a lot of forward momentum. There’s enough grunt right here that we can think about carrying out the identical on pavement, at greater expense for tires. The former airbase also had a cavern we could drive by way of to get pleasure from the echo of the exhaust note resonating off rock with out wondering if our ears had been deceived by some engineered cabin-ambience tuning.
Otherwise, we spent a lot of time fiddling with an array of buttons and knobs reminiscent of the space shuttle’s dashboard and admiring the craftsmanship that goes into covering each square inch of this massive box’s interior with leather, suede, wood, carbon fiber, or unobtainium (buyer’s decision, at a price).
We want we could tell you far more about the driving, beyond our general preference for the a lot more driver-oriented GTS’s steering and handling responses. Whatever benefit 570 horsepower confers basically wasn’t on offer because circumstances were so far removed from those Walter Röhrl had noticed at the Nürburgring. The driving legend himself was present to give thrill rides, and quite impressive ones they were, belying his 67 years. But his mount for these rides was a 911 Turbo S. Röhrl may have the chops to make a 2-and-a-half ton SUV set the quick time of the day on any road or rally course you name, but offered his druthers, it seems he’d choose a suitable 2-door sports vehicle if it is all the same to you.
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