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The need to get a vehicle that drives like a 911 but with space and comfort for the whole family has urged Porsche engineers to give the Cayenne S more grunt and even more ‘growl’ under the bonnet and so the Cayenne GTS was born. You get a Cayenne that comes with 405 horsepower and a shocking 500Nm of torque. It will go from rest to lookm/h in just 6.1 seconds (manual transmission) or 6.5 seconds (Tiptronic S). That is just a second short of the Cayenne Turbo S, The GTS will reach 253km/h top speed if you can find a deserted airfield to test this and it will return a grunt that will get your hair at the back of your neck popping out of its roots all the way! When you fire up the GTS, you know it is a real hot rod.

The exhaust rumbles and the engine note is surprisingly, and delightfully, vocal. Blip the throttle and the rev counter gets swept up and down like one in a racecar. The engine, a 4.8-litre sings a tune of speed and aggression as it waits for you command to shoot ahead while its gearbox waits for a change. Thanks to the six-speed’s aggressively low first gear and a sensitive throttle willing to work with a “Sport” switch which will drive the GTS roaring away from traffic lights at full blast. Activating the ‘Sports’ feature allows the GTS to immediately change its tune to a more vocal tone and you immediately feel the additional rumble as you prod the accelerator.

On the highway at legal speeds the GTS send a mild rumble into the cabin and when you need to get up to illegal speeds, a prod of the accelerator and the GTS becomes a runway train with little effort from your right foot. It gathers momentum in a rush and within seconds you feel like a roller coaster driver running ahead of the other carriages. It is true sense of speed and when it comes to shaving of this speed to sane levels, the shift down by the gearbox works just as well as using the large powerful brakes that can have you merging with your windscreen if your seatbelt is not on tight. By crossing a sports car with an SUV you get a vehicle that has the height, weight, and voracious fuel consumption of a sports car with the added advantage of off-road ability. All this comes in a neat little package known as the Cayenne GTS.