2019 Porsche Cayenne| LMT Cars
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Date: 2017-08-03

LMT Cars: 2019 Porsche Cayenne

Its proportions have hardly changed, which is a good thing: We’re charging along and barely being noticed. The front air intakes, the side-window graphic, most everything else—it all looks similar to the current Porsche Cayenne. You have to look twice to notice that something isn’t quite right, such as the fat, fake taillights. They look like the current Cayenne’s units, but they’re covering something new: a slim, three-dimensional LED light strip that stretches across the entire rear end. It’s part of Porsche’s new look for the brand, as are the headlights with four LED dots that invite the driver ahead to move out of the left lane—quickly. 
And there’s something else that has become typical for Porsche: the futuristic cockpit, characterized by crisp, horizontal lines and a center console that houses a broad, flat touchscreen. That center screen is taken straight from the latest Panamera, as are the instruments in front of the driver. The gears can be chosen via the same compact selector in the center console or the paddles attached to the steering wheel. If the Sport Chrono package is specified, there is the classic stopwatch mounted atop the dashboard. It looks out of place in this futuristic environment, but it’s a favorite of many customers. 
When the new Cayenne, internally called E3, comes to market this fall, there will be three gasoline engines: a 330-hp turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 in the Cayenne, a 440-hp twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter V-6 in the Cayenne S, and a 550-hp twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 in the Cayenne Turbo. All were developed in cooperation with Audi, with that brand spearheading the sixes and Porsche taking the lead on the V-8. 
Later, there will be plug-in hybrids. A model based on the 2.9-liter V-6 will make about 460 horsepower in total, and the range-topping Cayenne will borrow the Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid’s V-8 and electric hardware to produce some 680 horsepower. Don’t expect the fantastic diesel engines—a 3.0-liter V-6 with roughly 320 horsepower and a 420-hp 4.0-liter V-8—to appear in the U.S. market. (They’ll be late to the game in Europe as well.) All engines are mated to a ZF-sourced eight-speed automatic. 
The step from the outgoing second-generation Cayenne to this third-gen model is far greater than from the first to the second, the latter of which was little more than a heavy facelift on the original platform. Now Porsche moves to the Audi-developed MLB Evo architecture, which comes in two wheelbases. The Cayenne, like the Audi Q5, rides on the shorter one. 

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