2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe Review | Car News

Auto123 critiques the 2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe.

With the Cayenne Coupe, Porsche continues to thrust the boundaries of the SUV game. Of training course, the boundaries in the Porsche planet are a minimal various than people from your normal manufacturer, for the reason that Porsche is a overall performance brand first and foremost and we all know how up-in-arms the world’s Porschephiles had been when the Cayenne first arrived.

Here’s the issue, though – in coupe edition, I consider the Cayenne truly makes… much more feeling.

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The 2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe S, on the road

After all, overall performance brands have traditionally been ideal regarded for their two-doorway vehicles. Those have been their bread and butter until eventually 5 or ten years back, when even they started to diversify and when we started looking at stuff like overall performance crossovers and 4-doorway coupes.

Which, of training course, this Cayenne Coupe most undoubtedly is, with a swooping rear deck that appears to be like fantastic. Porsche has managed to make it so it does not conclude in a bizarre, abrupt, upswept way as it does on automobiles like the Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe or the BMW X6. It is as if the designers started altering the angle of the rear deck a minimal further more back again in the roofline, so the angle of the rear hatch is a little bit considerably less serious and capable to sort a greater taper with the rear fascia.

Both way, it is the ideal-looking of the bunch, even when dressed in the rather tame bronzy-gray exterior color that my tester is.

2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe, profile

It ought to come as no surprise, of training course, that the Coupe has considerably less rear-seat headroom than does the “wagon” edition. What is possibly stunning is that it is not various by all that a great deal. The Coupe only loses about forty mm of rear headroom to the wagon as Porsche has reduced the rear seats and punched a couple of bubbles into the rear headliner. I also had no problems acquiring my three-12 months-outdated into her forward-struggling with child’s seat.

Cargo room will take a little bit much more of a hit, as it drops from 772 to 625 litres with the rear seats up, and from one,708 to one,540 litres with the rear seats folded. The principal situation there is the peak of the load space, so you simply cannot load taller things in the Coupe.

The design, by the way, starts at a increased price than a conventional Cayenne: $ninety five,000 for the Cayenne S performs $103,000 for the S Coupe.

2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe, inside

Value variance there may possibly be, but up front it is similar outdated, similar outdated (with a handful of exceptions, of training course). So you get a modest-radius steering wheel, excellent driver-seating position (if one particular that I come across a minimal snug as opposed to the X6) and interesting information like centre console-mounted hand-retains for the passenger, the Activity Chrono clock atop the dash and that attractive, absolutely amazing chocolately-brown inside base color. Brown leather can go pretty mistaken in the motor vehicle planet, but it can also seem fantastic, as it does in a variety of Genesis products and solutions, BMW products and solutions and appropriate below in this Cayenne Coupe.

The only grievance I have – much more of a nitpick truly – is that there is a minimal also a great deal of it below, practically to the stage that it makes a feeling of blandness. I would have preferred, for instance, to have noticed the upper dash or at the very least the A-pillars concluded in the black noticed in other elements of the cabin. Of training course, Porsche permits for all varieties of color combos so I’m sure with a handful of tweaks, this would perform out just fantastic.

I’m also considerably less enamoured with Porsche’s selection to get rid of all the buttons that made use of to sit close to the change lever in the older car or truck. Your climate controls and chassis changes are all now controlled by a contact surface with haptic responses. I confess that back again when the centre console was much more loaded with buttons, I may possibly have questioned for just a handful of considerably less. This new therapy, though, I come across to possibly be extremely delicate or not rather responsive plenty of, and it attracts dust like a magnet.

2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe, driver data display

Talking of digitization, the gauge cluster is now practically fully digitized, though you know Porsche was hardly ever likely to fully forsake the analogue planet and so they’ve remaining us a proper mechanical tach, sat appropriate there in the middle of the cluster. Of training course, the displays possibly side of it can be modified to show everything from your GPS map to your trip computer to your speedometer, and the way they’re controlled with fragile spherical wheels on possibly spoke is appropriate on.

Porsche’s PCM infotainment interface is highlighted by a twelve.3” touchscreen show and it performs responsively and is full of superior details. Difficulty is, you do have to surf via rather a handful of menus to get at it and the color palette is rather bland. Which is probably a go not to distract also a great deal from the driving – it is a Porsche, right after all, and it has a great deal much more critical factors to do than seem colourful – but when you see what competitiveness from the aforementioned Genesis and BMW are carrying out, it starts to fade a minimal.

2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe S, motor

The travel sure does not, though.

Electrical power from the twin-turbo V6 is rated at 434 hp and 406 lb-ft of torque, the two figures that audio a great deal, a great deal smaller sized than they really feel. In the Activity and Activity Moreover travel modes, the Cayenne Coupe springs forth off the line to the tune of -100 km/h in 5. seconds, which also by some means feels speedier from powering the wheel. Perhaps it is the driver position, maybe it is the sound possibly way, this issue rocks and I often had to remind myself that this isn’t the fastest Cayenne Coupe in the steady.

So it is rapidly in a straight line and it ought to come as no surprise that it can scythe via corners in a manner that fully justifies the Porsche emblem on its exquisite snout. Speedy remaining-appropriate-remaining transitions, prolonged sweepers, sharp hairpins with hefty braking – it is all taken in stride by this sportiest of sporty SUVs. You have to question just what the heck Porsche was imagining, developing a car or truck for the masses and creating it so superior that most of them will hardly ever come in 5- or 6-tenths of its all round abilities.

Which is specifically the scenario when you spin the odd-looking dial that springs off the wheel hub, which is how you decide on amongst people aforementioned travel modes.

Picking “S” straight away corporations up the dampers and weighs up the steering in addition to modifying the change details of the eight-pace automatic transmission and sharpening throttle inputs. The final result is a mid-dimensions SUV that feels like some of the ideal athletics sedans did not ten years back, and that is a darn fantastic accomplishment.

2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe, front

It really is also the purpose why I consider when it will come to the Cayenne, it is the Coupe edition for me. All the rival coupe variants, like the GLE and the X6, just appear to be silly to me for some purpose, but for the reason that this is a Porsche and for the reason that it is just so darn productive at currently being a Porsche, properly, I want my SUV to seem as a great deal like a Porsche athletics motor vehicle as feasible. If you want practicality, get the wagon edition. But whilst at first I felt the Coupe was even much more of an affront to vehicles like the 911 for the reason that it was trying so difficult to be one particular, my biases have now been corrected. Porsche has nailed it below.

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Price tag of entry is much more than that of the conventional Cayenne S, but with considerably less room
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The competitiveness

Alfa Romeo Stelvio
Audi Q8
BMW X6
Land Rover Range Rover Velar
Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe

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