Porsche Cayenne

Porsche have certainly done their best to disguise the fact that the 3.2-litre V6 engine is a Volkswagen Group powerplant. Cosmetically, the top end looks pure Porsche with exposed pipes from the inlet manifold mirroring the style of the V8 engines that power the more serious Cayenne versions. This is in fact the first V6 ever to appear in a roadgoing Porsche, the flat-six engine found in the 911 apparently not fitting into the Cayennes cavernous engine bay.

The powerplant isnt exactly the same as the Touaregs however, Porsche revising the intake manifolds and fitting a freer breathing exhaust system such that the Cayenne is a significant 30bhp up on its distant cousin at 247bhp. Still, with 2160kg to haul about, the Cayenne 3.2 was never going to be a particularly rapid car. Break out the timing gear and so it proves, the big Porsche stopping the digits at 8.

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