Porsche Cayenne GTS: A Pimp-Wagon On Speed

If you were to travel back in time and tell the men who designed the very first Land Rovers, Jeeps and the like that one day in the not-too-distant future you’d be able to buy, at great expense no less, a 4x4 thats raison d'être is to be as fast as possible on road, they’d either keel over backwards, or punch you very hard in the face. Personally, I’d hope for the former.

Nevertheless, Porsche have today announced the racy Cayenne GTS, mixing a slightly uprated version of the base S model’s 4.8-litre V8 with the “in-yer-face” styling cues of the almighty Turbo.

The motor kicks out 420bhp to all four wheels via an eight-speed Tiptronic ‘box, enabling the weighty behemoth to reach 62mph from rest in just 5.7 seconds, and charge on to a top speed of 162mph. Thanks in part to the standard stop-start system, Porsche claim it’ll do 26.4mpg too, though I suspect that figure is all but unachievable unless you drive like an 81 year-old Floridian.

A set of wide-boy wheel-arch extensions, gloss black detailing and a prominent “twin-wing” rear-spoiler differentiates the GTS from it’s humdrum brethren.

Meanwhile, the body sits 24mm lower and on stiffer suspension than the now rather pedestrian-looking Cayenne S, and Porsche’s Active Suspension Management comes as standard to make sure the GTS isn’t all just show and no trousers.

Inside the leather-lined cabin, a tasty SportDesign steering-wheel with paddle-shifters and a pair of electrically adjustable sports seats complete the package.

It’ll hit dealers in July for £67,147 after a Beijing Motor Show debut later this month.

And don’t worry, you don’t have to spec’ it in baby-bile-green. But if you do, it'll look (and sound) like this: