Anyone prepared to admit to Cayenne ownership?

Anyone prepared to admit to Cayenne ownership?

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senator

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59 posts

264 months

Thursday 9th October 2003
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I just took the plunge and was wondering if anyone else has one?

If so any thoughts?

My Bassalt Black (least offensive in dark colours) S is being delivered on Saturday. I have loved my Porsche's but need some more seats so I thought I'd give it a try.

I was impressed with the test drive but you can never really tell until you live with the thing.

senator

Original Poster:

59 posts

264 months

Thursday 9th October 2003
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Still have the lhd 996 - although that has to stay in Germany for now.

senator

Original Poster:

59 posts

264 months

Friday 10th October 2003
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There really aren't that many around. I tried to get one through an OPC and was offered 10,000ml examples at list or new cars at a premium.

There have been all sorts of rumours in the States that there are hundreds of unsold KNs on the forecourts being offered at discounts. In truth I think this was a combination of 2 things:

(a)US buyers do not like to wait 12 months for a car of their spec and so the manufacturers always order reasonable quantities to be on show when the customer visits the showroom (hence the cars on display); and

(b)Porsche US got the initial spec slightly wrong when doing the pre-ordering so they wanted to shift some of the early poorly spec'd cars.

Bottom line is that they are still selling over a 1000 a month in the US and the spec problems have been an issue here too with Porsche running out of some of the popular components such as the bigger wheels and the sat nav modules.

I will certainly let you know my first impressions after the weekend