Cayenne order

[pikey]

Pictures..

Edited by pikey on Tuesday 27th July 12:10

[clorenzen]

Hi Pikey

Nice write up. I am about to exchange my Range Rover for a new one after 4 years and spent some time in the Porsche West London show room this morning waiting for my 997tt to get fixed (second week in a row that I am there - first a puncture now the rearview mirror fell off the windscreen). The new Cayenne is a big improvement on he old one. The panorama roof looks good too. A new Tdv8 2011 RR is about 8ok - how much did you end up spending on the Cayenne - if you want to reveal it?

[pikey]

clorenzen said:

Hi Pikey

Nice write up. I am about to exchange my Range Rover for a new one after 4 years and spent some time in the Porsche West London show room this morning waiting for my 997tt to get fixed (second week in a row that I am there - first a puncture now the rearview mirror fell off the windscreen). The new Cayenne is a big improvement on he old one. The panorama roof looks good too. A new Tdv8 2011 RR is about 8ok - how much did you end up spending on the Cayenne - if you want to reveal it?

Thanks.

The Cayenne is more of a direct comparison with an RR Sport father than 'Full Fat' on both price and interior size. However I found (and I think this is opinion rather than fact!) that the Cayenne 'appeared' bigger inside than the RRS. I think if you're considering the two you would need to be sure that the Cayenne can give you the internal space you need. However, no matter how excellent the RR's drive is, at speed the Cayenne excels in comparison. Depends what you're after really.

The spec we ordered (see page 1) was 60 (so diesel with a lot of extras), but the varients are wide so you could spend as little as 40 or as much as 100. A point worth noting is as you go up the range you get more included (ie. SatNav comes with the Turbo) so you can't directly compare the options we have against a higher or lower base model.

[GGS]

pikey said:

Pictures..

Edited by pikey on Tuesday 27th July 12:10

Wow, that looks lovely. I'm really tempted I like the colour combo too.

[pikey]

GGS said:

I like the colour combo too.

Yeah, we weren't sure what the white worked with inside and weren't sure what the brown worked with outside, but together they go well.

HUGE detour for us with our usual 'black outside, black inside' orders!!

[Stig]

Brown looks erm......







....quite nice actually

[davidd]

White is the new black, looks great.

Anyone driven a hybrid yet?

D

[Carl_Docklands]

Nice one mate, its really nice.

This must be one of, if not the best interior designs on a SUV I have seen.

The roof is an expensive option but it looks sublime!

[Phooey]

Lovely looking motor - very nice colour combo. Saw a black one the other day - looks so much better than the previous model, in fact, i thought it looked a little smaller than the old mod tbh - obviously in a good way though

[Geneve]

davidd said:

White is the new black, looks great.

Anyone driven a hybrid yet?

D

I've heard mixed reports about the Hybrid. Price looks expensive compared to Diesel, and long term tax savings may be offset by future technology/battery costs.

However, if someone actually needs a practical, luxury/sporting, family SUV, then I guess the new Cayenne is probably the best you can buy. Think it will be replacing our 6 year old X5, which has done diligent service, but Porsche have moved the game on (at last).

[clorenzen]

Car magazine has a write up on the hybrid where they basically trash it.

[Ranger 6]

pikey said:

.......Telephone & SatNav. You're driving along with directions on the pod in front of you, the main screen and out of the speakers. A phone call comes in and it shows me the caller details on the pod, the main screen and of course doesn't play audible directions. So for the time you (or in this case your passenger) is on the phone, you don't know where you're going. It won't let you change mode back to directions so you'll be a bit lost for a while....

In the new Touareg there's a display between the dial which you can choose the turning directions - is it a completely different nav system?

[cayman-black]

Congrats on the car Pikey ! Thought you were getting it in September?.
Thanks for the great write up,good read. Still yet to order,any thing you would change as your spec is very close to what i want.

[ted 191]

Cayenne could be my next car but after speccing one on the configurater it comes out at over 60k which makes it far more expensive than it's rivals for comparative spec.

[Phooey]

Wish it had 7 seats

[pikey]

Ranger 6 said:

pikey said:

.......Telephone & SatNav. You're driving along with directions on the pod in front of you, the main screen and out of the speakers. A phone call comes in and it shows me the caller details on the pod, the main screen and of course doesn't play audible directions. So for the time you (or in this case your passenger) is on the phone, you don't know where you're going. It won't let you change mode back to directions so you'll be a bit lost for a while....

In the new Touareg there's a display between the dial which you can choose the turning directions - is it a completely different nav system?

Haven't seen the Touareg so can't comment, but in this you can chose what to have on the dial (pod) on the dashboard and main screen. These can show the same thing or different things, but when the call comes in, they show the telephone display.

Ie. main screen on Tuner, dial/pod on navigation. Call comes in, both main screen and dial/pod flip over to show the telephone details. Neither the buttons on the main screen nor the steering wheel controls can reselect the navigation, you have to wait until the call ends.

Unless this is a setting that someone can tell me how to turn off...

[Ranger 6]

Ah thanks - The Touareg I tried was pre-production and I didn't do any calls

[pikey]

cayman-black said:

Congrats on the car Pikey ! Thought you were getting it in September?.
Thanks for the great write up,good read. Still yet to order,any thing you would change as your spec is very close to what i want.

Thanks.

Yes, initially we were expecting it about a week before September, then two. Then it turned up! We were going to wait but after the dealer sent us pictures of it, we were convinced and collected it!

Options: We haven't used memory seats yet, but may do more when my wife drives it more. The 'stainless steel front apron' is barely visible. Having seen the power boot lid, that looks good, but as we've never had one before we won't miss it! The standard boot lid is well balanced anyway. Apart from that, they were pretty much spot on!

[pikey]

Phooey said:

Wish it had 7 seats

Yes, I've heard this many times too. I can see them addressing this at / before the Facelift... unless they don't want to have a reputation for being a school-run vehicle?

Anyway, there's certainly the room in there and it's not as if I have a spare tyre anyway.

[seawise]

yes, if it had 7 seats then it would have been on my list, it hasn't so another Disco it will be.

have to say that interior looks fantastic, and great colour combo inside. the walnut works very well.

very impressive, time to revise my negative impression of the Cayenne.