It’s the same antithesis of Porsche. Or is it? The Cayenne, an SUV, is the sports car company's second best seller, back another SUV, the Macan.
It can exist an SUV, besides during it’s calm a Porsche and that fashion it has to exist sporty. Porsche is introducing the third generation of the Cayenne though the 2019 xerox year, and this one promises to exist the sportiest and roomiest yet. deed with utility? Doesn’t appear same Porsche, besides during can a dirt can which two SUVs perform the path though a sports car brand, that’s the reality.
To yell on just how Porsche is improving its third-generation Cayenne, I traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany though an in-depth technical backgrounder can what makes this mid-size SUV tick. The following is what I learned.
It has a lighter body with advanced aerodynamics
The 2019 Porsche Cayenne is based can the Volkswagen Group’s MQB platform that provides the foundation though the Audi Q7. The Cayenne is shorter and lighter than the Q7 and has two rows of seats instead of three, besides during the radical architecture is shared amid the two vehicles.
Compared to the outgoing Cayenne, the new xerox is 2.5 inches longer, 0.9 inches wider, and it sits 0.35 inches lower. The rear cargo district because healthful has 15 percent more capacity, and the wheels and tires are wider and larger.
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The new body can white employs a multi-material combine tactic that features various types of steel and aluminum. The roof, side panels, doors, tailgate, hood, and fenders are full made of aluminum, because are various parts of the unibody structure. full told 47 percent of the body can white is aluminum, and the body saves about 74 pounds versus the outgoing vehicle. This is in spite of the fact that 110 pounds were added to the structure to aid the Cayenne pass the IIHS’s tiny front overlap crash test.
Porsche because healthful employs numerous joining technologies to pattern steel career with aluminum and to grant the body rigidity. The body components are joined can more than 6,300 spots—6,800 robots are used to lay them together—and more than 160 meters of adhesives are used can the process.
As a originate of the joining processes and the materials mix, the body’s static and dynamic stiffness are both improved by about 20 percent.
Aerodynamics play an important role can both the efficiency and deed of the new Cayenne, with the Turbo xerox benefiting most from the deed upgrades.
The 2019 Cayenne gets an expanded healthful air-shutter system up front, and it now has an healthful roof spoiler can the Turbo model. The front air shutters are now no only build beneath the upper grille, besides during because healthful the lower grille and across the sides. Those side shutters are erect nevertheless the fracture are horizontal.
The spoiler of the Cayenne S xerox is 1.8 inches longer than the foregoing one, nevertheless the trailing edge of the spoiler can the Turbo xerox is lowered 0.65 inch. However, the Turbo's spoiler can extend up to 3.2 inches upward.
The shutters and spoiler career together can the Turbo can a system called Porsche Adaptive Aerodynamics to equip the best cooling and aerodynamics though deed purposes. The healthful rear spoiler has five positions, and the shutters are deployed based can the need. can the Eco setting, the spoiler remainder retracted and the front shutters are closed can speeds of up to 100 mph though best aerodynamics. can 100 mph, a deed path is activated can which the spoiler automatically extends upward 0.8 inches and the vehicle’s drive altitude is lowered 0.7 inches.
In Sport+, the front shutters are fully vacant and the spoiler extends to 1.6 inches to equip more downforce, besides during the spoiler will automatically retract if the vehicle is traveling can 124 mph though it used to equip because healthful much drag can that speed. The spoiler creates 242 pounds of downforce can the Cayenne’s max haste of 178 mph. if the panorama roof is open, the spoiler extends to 2.4 inches to compensate though the airflow can the roof.
The fifth site is called air Brake. It is activated if the vehicle is traveling can more than 106 mph and the system detects heavy braking such because can a alarm fracture or during explore driving. The air Brake site will aid the Cayenne fracture two meters shorter from 155 mph.
Porsche offers a smorgasbord of suspension technology
The Cayenne can exist based can a platform shared with Audi, besides during it had to satisfy Porsche criteria. Namely, it had to eat optimal driving dynamics and steering precision; deed brakes and high-performance tires; the highest flat of functional disperse amid deed and fuel consumption, too because dynamics and comfort; plus offer optimal efficiency within these targets.
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The MQB platform marks a switch from a double wishbone front suspension to a multi-link MacPherson stride assembly that makes copious apply of aluminum. nevertheless double wishbone suspensions are considered premium, the Porsche engineer I spoke to said the new geometry brings the virtual steering axis closer to the body, and accordingly provides perfect wheel isolation, which results can a smoother drive and fights against issues alike bump-steer. BMW has used this arrange of assembly successfully though decades.
All Cayennes will goods Porsche’s Hang-on all-wheel-drive system that runs with a rear prejudice because much because feasible most of the time (especially can the athletics and Sport+ driving modes), besides during can send full of the energy to the front or rear wheels when glide is detected can because healthful axle. The system uses an electronically controlled moist multi-plate take though healthful shift of torque to the front axle.
The Cayenne because healthful moves to staggered tire sizes, which allowed engineers to concentrate can optimizing the rear tires though acceleration and the fronts though steering instead of compromising both. Wheel sizes eat because healthful grown to 19s though the foundation xerox (from 18s), 20s though the S (from 19s), and 21s though the Turbo (from 19s). The tires are Michelin Latitude athletics 3s, and tire sizes are because follows: the Cayenne has 255/55R19s up front and 275/50R19s can the rear, the Cayenne S comes with 275/45R20s can the front and 305/40R20s out back, and the Cayenne Turbo sports vast 285/40R21s up front and 315/35R21s out back.
The foundation springs are steel, besides during an improved three-chamber air suspension will exist optional and standard can the Turbo. It comes with electronically adjustable twin-tube dampers, and its three chambers apply it to exist both softer can one aim of the damping spectrum and firmer can the other than the outgoing system.
At the rear, buyers will exist able to select though rear-axle steering that turns the rear tires up to 3 degrees out of side with the fronts can speeds beneath 50 mph to aid the Cayenne revolve across turns and with the fronts up to 1.5 degrees can 50 mph to equip way stability.
The steering ratio is a quick 13.3:1, and it gets even quicker can 12.2:1 with the optional rear-axle steering. By comparison, the Q7 is 15.8:1 standard and 13.3:1 with its rear-axle steering system.
Between the mixed tires, the steering ratio, and the suspension, Porsche claims the new Cayenne has greater responsiveness and precision, too because perfect straight-line feel. We'll illustrate can our receive when we drive it can a little weeks.
Porsche will offer two more suspension technologies because options. The Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus (PTV Plus) system has an electronically controlled rear differential that uses a moist multi-plate take to apportion the torque to the external wheel can a turn, then lock up the wheels because the vehicle straightens out though optimum performance, driving stability, and traction during deed maneuvers.
Also can offer will exist the Porsche Dynamic Chassis govern (PDCC) electromechanical rgeister stabilization system. This translation is now a 48-volt system, accordingly it reacts quicker than the persist one. It amounts to healthful anti-roll bars front and rear that can exist made stiffer or softer by applying sure or negative pressure to them via a swivel motor. Tense up the bars and they aid own the Cayenne flatter can a corner. Soften them up, and they apply the wheels droop more though perfect off-road articulation and traction.
All of these systems are integrated via the 4D Chassis govern system, which because healthful plant with full the systems to pattern the Cayenne career best off road. It adjusts the throttle, traction control, transmission, diff locks, drive height, fountain rates and dampers, PDCC, and rear-wheel steering to optimize the vehicle though four various off-road modes (Gravel, Mud, Sand, and Rocks) and four various chassis heights (Low, Medium, High, and Terrain). The foundation drive altitude is 7.5 inches and the sumit drive altitude is can 9.6 inches.
Innovative new brakes are available
The 2019 Porsche Cayenne will exist offered with four various brake packages. The foundation setup consists of 13.8-inch front and 13-inch rear rotors. Cayenne S models grow 15.3-inch mm front and 13-inch rear rotors; those fronts are 1.2 inches larger than those they replace.
Standard can the Turbo and optional otherwise will exist the innovative new Porsche Surface Coated Brakes (PSCB). These iron brakes goods 10(!)-piston front calipers and 16.3-inch front rotors and 4-piston rear calipers that clamp 14.4-inch discs. The calipers are white, and full four discs are coated with a tungsten-carbide blend that is essentially burned onto the surface using a high-velocity oxygen fuel. This creates a hardened surface that is 100 microns thick. nevertheless 100 microns represents the usable surface of the rotors and is considerably thinner than the 1 mm of material that is often used can iron rotors, Porsche says it is good though can least 30 percent more wear and maybe up to twice because much depending can driving style.
The PSCB brakes eat other advantages because well. They pattern 90 percent less brake wipe than standard iron brakes though the surface is accordingly hard. The coating makes them corrosion free, and can fact creates a mirror-like end when the surfaces are burnished can by the particular pads they require. From a deed standpoint, these brakes are more fade resistant than iron brakes though they don’t fever up because easily, which to translate into excellent deed can a racetrack. It to exist famous that these brakes will eat a dark layer can them back a spirited assembly can a track, besides during the surface will retort to that mirror-like end back a short time can the road.
Pricing is already out though these brakes and they charge $3,490 because an preference though the Cayenne or Cayenne S.
Above the PSCB brakes are the $9,080 Porsche Ceramic blend Brakes. These eat 17.3-inch front discs and 16.1-inch rear discs with the same calipers because the PSCBs. They are 0.8 inches larger than the carbon-ceramics from persist year, and they study 53 pounds less than the PSCBs.
It gets a new habitation of engines
Porsche is upgrading the engines can full three of its Cayenne models, and full three engines are related.
The foundation mechanism is the 3.0-liter turbocharged V-6 that you’ll discover can the Audi SQ5, S5, and S4. can the Cayenne it produces 340 horsepower and 331 pound-feet of torque. It replaces the Volkswagen-derived 3.6-liter VR6 V-6 that made 300 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque. The new 3.0 can launch the Cayenne from 0 to 62 mph can 5.9 seconds when equipped with the optional athletics Chrono package.
Stepping up to the Cayenne S nets you a twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter V-6 that spins out 440 hp and 404 lb-ft of torque. It’s basically the same mechanism because the 3.0 besides during with a shorter stroke and an additional turbocharger. It replaces a twin-turbocharged 3.6-liter V-6 and outdoes it by 20 hp, besides during is down by 2 lb-ft of torque. It propels the Cayenne S from 0-62 mph can 4.9 seconds, because healthful with the athletics Chrono package.
At the sumit of the lineup is a new twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 that has because healthful shown up can the Panamera. Both the twin-turbo engines eat their turbos can the “hot V” amid the cylinder heads where the way of the airflow is shorter though quicker response. This mechanism puts out 550 hp and 567 lb-ft of torque. Those numbers meditate improvements of 30 hp and 14 lb-ft can the xerox it replaces. The 0-62 mph time? A mere 3.9 seconds when equipped with athletics Chrono.
All three engines are mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission sourced from ZF instead of the 7-speed dual-clutch transmission used can the persist Cayenne. Seventh and eight gears are overdrives, and the transmission has Comfort, Sport, and Sport+ shift settings. The Hang-on AWD xerox is integrated into the transmission, directing energy to the front wheels when needed. full Cayennes because healthful holiday with automatic stop/start that can switch off the mechanism nevertheless coasting to a fracture can speeds of about 4 mph and below.
Porsche made sure the powertrain could manage a species of tasks. It can tug up to 7,700 pounds, ford up to 19.7 inches of water, and assert grease stress nevertheless climbing a 45 degree hill though 98 feet.
The takeaway
The 2019 Porsche Cayenne naturally looks promising. It's down by up to 143 pounds versus the persist model, offers little new or improved chassis technologies meant to perfect handling, and has an all-new mechanism lineup that promises more energy and efficiency. We'll yell on how full these improvements influence the driving undergo soon, besides during we expectation this sporty SUV to exist even sportier too because roomier, and that bodes healthful though Porsche's second-best selling vehicle.
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