RE: Behold the Porsche Cayenne Convertible
Discussion
biggbn said:
Luke. said:
And me. I like the Aztec too 
That Cayenne though just doesn't have the proportions to work.
This cayenne convertible is the equivalent of being hard up at 2am having beer goggles on pulling a monstrosity and taking it home, I've been desperate at times but have been thankful for doing without and I could certainly do with out this but no doubt if it had gone into production plenty of people with more money than taste would have bought them in droves , plenty would have been scene in Essex with a bright orange owner LoL.
As the previous owner of a regular convertible and now a vw t-roc cabrio, I genuinely don’t get why people react negatively towards suv style ragtops.
Of course they are compromised, but the gain is a real bespoke feeling. Having a pillarless opening with the roof up and windows down plus 2 doors makes it feel way more special than regular a suv.
For daily traffic ridden roads, I feel the suv trumps a lower slung convertible. It’s more comfortable, more chilled, you see more, feel more in the open and it just feels a bit cheeky, hence fun really. You slow down to take the environment in.
When the roofs up and it’s miserable weather it’s just a regular suv from inside.
Going just off looks alone and following the pack going “yuk” just seems shallow and somewhat sad to me.
Anyhowww back to the article. I think this is a brave prototype and with some more development could have been very cool. Probably way ahead for the time though.
Nowadays I reckon a torquey 4wd Porsche macan would be a fantastic car. Probably the best real world daily convertible you could buy.
Of course they are compromised, but the gain is a real bespoke feeling. Having a pillarless opening with the roof up and windows down plus 2 doors makes it feel way more special than regular a suv.
For daily traffic ridden roads, I feel the suv trumps a lower slung convertible. It’s more comfortable, more chilled, you see more, feel more in the open and it just feels a bit cheeky, hence fun really. You slow down to take the environment in.
When the roofs up and it’s miserable weather it’s just a regular suv from inside.
Going just off looks alone and following the pack going “yuk” just seems shallow and somewhat sad to me.
Anyhowww back to the article. I think this is a brave prototype and with some more development could have been very cool. Probably way ahead for the time though.
Nowadays I reckon a torquey 4wd Porsche macan would be a fantastic car. Probably the best real world daily convertible you could buy.
emix said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I think it's great. I wish they'd actually done it 20 years ago, because by now they'd be in my price range.
No they wouldn't have been. No one would have bought them back then and they'd be rarities so nowadays in the current Porsche climate they'd be selling close to original price as the "rare and one of a kind never to be repeated, convertible Porsche SUV". cluckcluck said:
As the previous owner of a regular convertible and now a vw t-roc cabrio, I genuinely don’t get why people react negatively towards suv style ragtops.
Those are interesting thoughts.I think this Cayenne study is a particularly egregious example of poor proportions, though. The T Roc is reasonably well-proportioned given the SUV format, helped by the modern trend for large diameter wheels and by how the roof stows neatly.
Examples from a past when wheels were usually smaller and which had large rumps where the boot folded- PT Cruiser, I'm looking at you- did the styling no favours.
On account of the Mk1 Cayenne having odd proportions in tin-top form meant it would always suffer in this format. Mk1 Cayenne needed to be that shape to get buyers used to a tall SUV-shaped Porsche, of course, but the more smoothed off proportions of a Macan might well work.
I can't say I'd be keen, but I can imagine that a market would exist. I can only think that's a good thing; it keeps car companies alive to make the Boxsters and Caymans that I would enjoy instead.
king hell that looks absolutely awful! 
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