Porsche Cayenne Turbo

- Adam Towler

IT’S NEARLY 15 YEARS SINCE THE first Porsche Cayenne Turbo barged its way unceremoniously to the front of many a well-heeled Porsche customer’s mind.What a shock that ‘955’ Cayenne was. Was Porsche really serious?Was its SUV really going to look like, well, that?

It was. With a typically Germanic deadpan delivery, Porsche was absolutely, unremittingly serious – about all of it, including the bit where the Cayenne, highly proficient off-road, could also put the sweats on many a hot hatch.

Much has changed since: Porsche is now an SUV manufacturing giant that happens to also make sports cars, and today every high-end manufacturer has not just one high performance SUV, but a range of them.