Buying A $6100 Porsche Cayenne Turbo Takes A Mix Of Bravery And Madness

Tyler Hoover - owner of the USA's cheapest 911 - thought it would be a great idea to add to his garage with the least expensive turbocharged Porsche he could find...
Remote video URL

The classifieds are full of once expensive luxury performance cars that have depreciated to peanuts. The trouble is, with the sheer number of things to go wrong, actually buying one is a downright terrifying prospect. Thankfully, those of us who don’t have the balls to take the plunge can watch YouTuber and columnist Tyler Hoover live out our luxury car dreams.

We’ve seen him buy the USA’s cheapest AMG Mercedes (which was stolen and then recovered), the USA’s cheapest Porsche 911 (a 996 which had its engine blow up), and now this. Hoover claims this Cayenne Turbo is the cheapest running, non-salvage turbocharged Porsche in the whole country.

Admittedly he had to use his dealer connections to get it, but nonetheless $6100 is a ludicrously small amount of money for a car with a 4.5-litre twin-turbo V8 and 444bhp. He’s already had to deal with some severe engine running issues - caused by what looked to be sabotage from an unscrupulous buyer trying to put off competing bidders. But as Hoover points out: “What this slickster didn’t count on was this idiot bidding on the car sight unseen from over a thousand miles away”. Quite.

With the under-bonnet skulduggery sorted and an air suspension fault fixed, all seems well. We’re looking forward to seeing how this V8 bargain pans out…

Sponsored Posts

Comments

Anonymous

What’s next? The cheapest Mazda MX-5/Miata NA?

06/08/2017 - 08:48 |
52 | 0
Matt Robinson
Matt Robinson

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Already found that

06/08/2017 - 09:00 |
194 | 0
Ben Ireland

The next has to be cheapest V12!

06/08/2017 - 08:56 |
84 | 2
The Volvo Guy (Ikea Meatballs)

In reply to by Ben Ireland

Next: The cheapest Bugatti Veyron W16!

06/08/2017 - 09:30 |
58 | 2
Anonymous

Probably not a lot of 944 Turbo’s where he’s from. $6100 is crazy cheap for a Cayenne Turbo as well. You won’t even get its more boring sister (the VW Touareg) for that money.

I worked at Porsche as an errand boy for a while, and these things cost a lot to maintain, as you’d imagine. With normal Porsche dealer service this car would be total loss in a very short time.

06/08/2017 - 09:13 |
12 | 0
......

call me when you find the cheapest koenigsegg

06/08/2017 - 09:47 |
16 | 2
Fortunes

In reply to by ......

Already did.

06/08/2017 - 12:48 |
30 | 0
Jayden Hoyat Ho

pretty sure the engine in the amg will conked out and this will too and he will also swap them with ls’s………………………………

06/08/2017 - 12:02 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

The next car should be the cheapest Rolls Royce Sweptail. XD

06/08/2017 - 13:22 |
8 | 0
Seth 3

Gay-enne pepper

06/08/2017 - 13:46 |
2 | 6
lukalukic1

Waiting for air suspension to fail,then the fun starts.

06/08/2017 - 14:41 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

*2 weeks later. ‘my porsche cayenne was STOLEN by a really stupid thief’

06/08/2017 - 15:25 |
2 | 0
Anton 3

That just like getting into a relationship with a f-ing crazy woman. You know that you better shouldn’t do it, but you just see the pleasure. And oh boy, how she knows to please you.

06/08/2017 - 15:35 |
6 | 0