2011 Porsche Cayenne S - Car and Driver (blog)
If you were among the more than 280,000 buyers around the globe who didn’t get worked up when Porsche introduced its first-ever SUV, now you have a reason to be upset—not because all the hateful stares from purists have finally become too much,... It is, however, not only bigger than the RAV4 but also larger in almost every measure than the original Cayenne. The wheelbase is up 1. 6 inches to 114. 0, the width spans another 0. 4, for a total of 76. 3, overall length stretches 1. 9 inches to 190. 8, and the new Cayenne stands 0. 2 inch taller, at 67. 1. As you would expect, the elaborate and handsome... With the second-row seats upright, the Cayenne now accepts another five cubic feet of whatever you want to cram into it, bringing the total to 24 cubes. Porsche engineers rejiggered the all-wheel-drive system, the chassis, the body, the electrical components, and more, yielding an overall loss of about 400 pounds model to model, according to Porsche, even with structural reinforcements helping... Our scales confirm it. This test vehicle weighed 4941 pounds, 410 fewer than the last Cayenne S we tested. Alongside the weight loss and the striking new exterior and interior design, Porsche squeezed an additional 15 hp from the Cayenne S’s naturally. Source: www.caranddriver.com
