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It hasn’t been that many years since Porsche first got into diesels but this, Porsche fans, is the marque’s most muscular oil-burner to date.<\/p>\n
Doff the cap to the Cayenne S Diesel, motivated by a 4.2-litre, twin-turbo V8 for which the Porsche posse quote 281kW and 850Nm – good enough, they say, to take this two-tonne beetle-crusher to 100km\/h from a standstill in 5.7 seconds and on to 252km\/h flat out.<\/p>\n
All this at a an average of 8.3 litres per 100km and 218g\/km of CO2, partly thanks to idle stop; Porsche say this is the only diesel V8 SUV on the market that’s got it.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the inherent smoothness of the V8 layout, the biturbo doesn’t sound or feel like a diesel; it rumbles along like an American musclecar, while its PTM active all-wheel drive is set up to feel like a rear-wheel drive set-up – until you overdo it, and then it channels power to the front wheels as needed to keep the car on the black stuff and pointed in the right direction.<\/p>\n
BIG-DIESEL ADVANTAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n Big diesels, of course, have two more important advantages: range and towing ability. Porsche has rated the Cayenne S Diesel to pull 3500kg and, if you order the optional 100-litre fuel tank, it should take you about 1200km between comfort stops.<\/p>\n
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Biturbo V8 rumbles along like an American musclecar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n