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View Poll Results: What do you think of the Cayenne?
It like how it looks and Porsche was smart to make a SUV. 22 51.16%
It looks like ass, but I agree with Porsche attempting to make a SUV. 3 6.98%
Its ugly and Porsche should have never made a SUV. 9 20.93%
It looks pretty cool, but Porsche shouldn't be trying to make a SUV. 9 20.93%
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Old 07-02-2003, 03:21 PM   #46
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At the moment, SUVs are cool. Porsches are sub zero. Therefore the Cayenne is the coolest SUV around. Let me explain with this techincal drawing, bound to offend ...



And I like it.
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Lada ? cool cars, I will buy one. The 110 !!
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Old 07-03-2003, 06:15 AM   #48
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I WOULD RATHER RIDE A PLASTIC BIG WHEEL THEN BE SEEN IN THAT F@#!@# THING IT IS UGLY AS SHIT AND YES A JEEP CHEROKEE WOULD SMOKE THIS THING OFF ROAD, HELL I HAD A 1986 AMC 4WHEEL DRIVE WAGON THAT WAS BETTER THEN THAT THING OFF ROAD, IM SURE IT IS BUILT WELL ITS A PORSCHE BUT THEY SHOULD STICK TO CARS
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I WOULD RATHER RIDE A PLASTIC BIG WHEEL THEN BE SEEN IN THAT F@#!@# THING IT IS UGLY AS SHIT AND YES A JEEP CHEROKEE WOULD SMOKE THIS THING OFF ROAD, HELL I HAD A 1986 AMC 4WHEEL DRIVE WAGON THAT WAS BETTER THEN THAT THING OFF ROAD, IM SURE IT IS BUILT WELL ITS A PORSCHE BUT THEY SHOULD STICK TO CARS

The Cayenne is just as capable as a Cherokke off road- even a 911 Carrera 4 is more capable than most "SUV's" off road
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The Cayenne is just as capable as a Cherokke off road- even a 911 Carrera 4 is more capable than most "SUV's" off road

it might be more high tech than the cherokee....but i'll bet you it is not buld around a truck frame so standard offroading....it will handle........rock crawling will damage the frame however.....

also i'm not sure if there is a 4wd system out there yet to beat the quadra drive for offroading found in the jeeps.....i mean sending almost up to 100% torque to one of the wheels that has traction denotes one heck of a diferential
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Old 07-25-2003, 10:19 AM   #51
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No Indepentant suspention equiped vehicle is as capable offroad than an live axle truck. Horsepower is not a factor in off roading. A Suzuki Samuri would go where this porsche wouldn't dream. The idea of most new SUV makes my stomach hurt. They were built for the road, not for the trails, even Land Rover is going that way.
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The Touareg is excellent for a big SUV off road. The Cayenne must be as good or not far I think.
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The Jeep may be a better vehicle for off roading on tight trails(Hummer is better of course), but superior in any other way, no way. The jeep is a POS that I'm surprised is still popular, though I havent seen many on the road lately. If they drop a Hemi in the Jeep it will will have 105 hp less than the Cayenne. One last note, whom ever buys a Cayenne won't take it off roading anyway, I wouldnt want to b/c it looks just too good to get it dirty.
Jeeps are the ultimate off roaders. The aftermarket for parts is simply too big for anyone else to compete with. The Wrangler/Rubicon can go places that the Hummer and the Cayenne can never go simply because of their smaller size. As Neutrino said the frame on the Jeep is much more resilient for true off roading than the Cayenne. So you won't ever take the Cayenne off road? Than why even make one? There is no point to it besides wasting gas and money. I would rather have a true Porsche for the money. As for your comment about the Hemi, yes it will have 150 less HP than the Cayenne, but mind you the Cayenne is twin turbo charged and costs around $100,000. Also the Jeeps aren't crappy, you obviously have never owned one. In my opinion it is the best functional SUV on the market. As for the non-functional SUVs, you can drive them all off a cliff. Those people should be driving mini-vans.
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I agree, I bet that there are places the old LJ20 Suzuki brute could go that the Porsche behemoth-monster couldn't. (and with less cylinders and money to boot!)
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How do we know that the porsche is any good off-road if nobody will take it there? we don't, and I don't care because in the end, it's still ugly and useless.

So are you. How's that for stating an opinion?

The Porsche has already been TAKEN off road, at MOAB and at the Rubicon. Unlike Jeep-zealot's old fashioned idea that unitbody vehicles CAN"T be used offroad, modern engineering has made extremely strong and rigid structures from them. The Porsche is no exception.

It is highly capable off road, and that's already been proven. It also has a 7000 lb towing capacity, so you could tow your Porsche race car to the track with it with ease. And, at Watkin's Glen, teh pace Cayanne was lapping the track at speeds that street Porsches have had a hard time doing, proving it'self to be a very capable handler.

So Porsche, true to it's engineering heritage, builds a single vehicle that is better at those three different areas than most cars that are only good at one area, and you retards think it's a bad thing. Sorry, but the vehicle is the ULTIMATE one-vehicle-for-everything.

Hey, lets have a contest to see who can close their litle brain up the tightest! You all are acting like you believe that if you don't USE your brain cells, they last longer...
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Hey, lets have a contest to see who can close their litle brain up the tightest! You all are acting like you believe that if you don't USE your brain cells, they last longer...
Actually, I'm of the opinion that if something is not used - it is useless. Is that not a logical idea?

Most likely, 99.9% of these vehicles will never go off road, and probably a very similar number won't even see a dirt road or be hitched to a trailer. the majority of them will be wasting valuable city parking space outside of yuppie coffee houses (come to think of it, that space isn't so valuable, let the yuppies keep it)
Can I say status symbol? Porsche has finnally made a vehicle perfect not just for a man in his midlife crisis, but also for any man who needs over compensation - or any disgruntled soccer mom with penis envy. If you're a trendy, rich, insecure person - this may very well be the perfect vehicle for you!

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So are you. How's that for stating an opinion?

The Porsche has already been TAKEN off road, at MOAB and at the Rubicon. Unlike Jeep-zealot's old fashioned idea that unitbody vehicles CAN"T be used offroad, modern engineering has made extremely strong and rigid structures from them. The Porsche is no exception.

It is highly capable off road, and that's already been proven. It also has a 7000 lb towing capacity, so you could tow your Porsche race car to the track with it with ease. And, at Watkin's Glen, teh pace Cayanne was lapping the track at speeds that street Porsches have had a hard time doing, proving it'self to be a very capable handler.

So Porsche, true to it's engineering heritage, builds a single vehicle that is better at those three different areas than most cars that are only good at one area, and you retards think it's a bad thing. Sorry, but the vehicle is the ULTIMATE one-vehicle-for-everything.


going on a dirt or mud road is not serious offroading......

and if you try with a cayenne any type of serious stuff like rock crawling......you'll rip it apart......

me and polygon we live close to moab and i've been there quite a few times .... the thought of taking a cayenne or x5 or touared or anything in that category trough the serious rocks out there is ridiculous

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The Cayenne is ugly and extremely overpriced. Porsche should not have built an suv.
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