Porsche Reinvents the Word Overkill with the Cayenne Turbo S

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Porsche Cayenne Turbo S
Source: www.autoweek.com

Unveiled at the Los Angeles show, this four-wheel-driver runs a more powerful version of the Cayenne Turbo’s twin-turbocharged 4.5-liter V8 engine, putting out 521 hp at 5500 rpm and 531 lb-ft of torque between 2750 and 3750 rpm. That is a 71-hp and 71-lb-ft improvement on the standard Cayenne Turbo. It makes this new S the second most powerful road car Porsche has ever placed into production after the 5.7-liter, 605-hp V10 Carrera GT. It’s also enough to lower the big, 5200-pound SUV’s 0-to-62-mph time from 5.6 seconds to 5.2, as well as provide it with a 50-to-75-mph fifth-gear time of 5.4 seconds.

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Blazin's Note: What can I say but damn! This is the most overkilled SUV I've seen since the Typhoon. I'm impressed with the numbers it puts out and the performance it can achieve. It's simply amazing what they can do with SUV's now-a-days. The Cayenne, the Trailblazer SS, the Jeep SRT-8, the Infiniti QX45, they are all amazingly fast. But my question is do you really need a fast SUV? The answer, sure why the hell not.
 
The Cayenne Turbo was already just as quick around evo's test track as an E46 M3. This one should be quite a bit quicker. Shame they've not fixed the looks :lol:
 
I just noticed something upon futher review, the GMC Typhoon managed to get to 60 around 5 seconds 4.8 being the lowest I know of and 5.3 (which is faster then a Ferrari 348 - C&D March 92) being the highest. This only hits 60 in 5.2 and it's running on 15 year newer technology.
 
Ya it weighed close to that but still I would think that the Cayanne has better technology and what not then an SUV from 1992. I would expect a sub 5 second run from the Porsche.
 
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Ya it weighed close to that but still I would think that the Cayanne has better technology and what not then an SUV from 1992. I would expect a sub 5 second run from the Porsche.
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I honestly wouldn't be surprised if an independent review hits a 4.8 or 4.9 run in it. Porsche are generally quite conservative with their performance figures. That Typhoon looks quite cool though, I remember it in a magazine in the UK where they featured it. I think it ran a quarter against a Lamborghini Diablo or something similar.
 
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I honestly wouldn't be surprised if an independent review hits a 4.8 or 4.9 run in it. Porsche are generally quite conservative with their performance figures. That Typhoon looks quite cool though, I remember it in a magazine in the UK where they featured it. I think it ran a quarter against a Lamborghini Diablo or something similar.
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Ya you are probably right with the sub 5 second run outta a magazine or something. I'll be curious to see what happens. And while I don't care for Porsche, I'm impressed with the SUV still. I like performance SUV's quite a bit and I'm glad to see more coming out.

Although I still think GM messed up the Trailblazer SS, yes it's fast, yes it's AWD, yes it's V8...but it should have been an Envoy, with a turboed I-6 and called the Typhoon III (there was a Typhoon II back in the late 90's that never made it into production)
 
The most impressive stat on the Cayenne is, as I mentioned above, that it lapped evo's test track in the same time as an E46 M3. It's just amazing, I think.

Why do you favour turbo'd inline 6s over V8s in hot SUVs, Blazin?
 
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Why do you favour turbo'd inline 6s over V8s in hot SUVs, Blazin?
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The orignal Typhoon came with a 4.3L V6 turboed with some V8 beefed up parts thrown on to it. A turboed 4.2L I-6 would be more of a carrying on the name sort of thing. Plus a nice turboed SUV is always nice, whats not to love about a spooling motor?

I also think they should bring the Syclone back in Canyon form.
 
1) Porsche obviously felt their turf had been invaded by the Cherokee SRT-8 which at the moment is the worlds fastest production SUV (0-60 in 4.8 with "only" 415HP)

2) So this is a modified Cayenne S or a beefed up Cayenne Turbo? A 450bhp Turbo V8 wassent enough in the turbo version?

3) I personally like the Trailblazer SS because it is a bit more tonned down than the Porsche, Dodge, Jeep, and Ford entries into the super-SUV market. It still looks relitively stock, and it doesnt need gigantic 22" wheels to make it look fast...

I remember the Trailblazer Turbo concept from a few years back, and the performance figures they were quoting were similar to what they are now. But they were worried about the long-term performance of the engine and it's thirst for fuel. I would agree that GMC deserves to bring back the Typhoon and Cyclone, but now that they are offically the Lux versions of Chevrolet trucks, arent sporting duties given directly to Chevy?
 
Yup Chevy, Pontiac, and Caddy pretty much get all the go fast cars now for the most part. But if they ever brought back the Typhoon I would buy one in a heartbeat.
 
I'm not the biggest fan of the 4200-series I6, so I'm not completely convinced that the turboed version would be spectacular... Its not that the engine isnt great (which it is, obviously follows in the tadition of good Chevrolet I6's), but I would have prefered a direct replacement for the long-running 4300 V6 that saw duty mostly in the Astro, Blazer, S-10, etc... Being that it was baisicly a 350 with two cylinders chopped off, she ran pretty good, and had plenty of power to tow just about anything we attached to our Astro.
 
Oh ya I have the 4.3L in the Blazer and I'm happy with it, not the quickest thing in the world but I have had a problem with it and it pulls my trailer just fine. I think it would have been easy to update the motor, all it need was a better manifold and y-pipe on the exhaust. Other then thing I dont' have any complaints.
 

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