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Yes, a couple of things wrong with the Cayenne are its weight and its late appearance in the market. If Porsche does a 'minivan' it will be one of the last manufacturers to do so in a mature market.
If (I should capitalize that word and increase the font size) Porsche goes to market with a 1 box people mover, It will be the best handling MV on the road, it will go like stink and it won't be cheap.
The target audience for that vehicle is the guy who last year dropped 80 large on a new P-car and now the wife is saying she needs a minivan to get the kids to school. Another 60 or 80 isn't going to bother him much, he'll lease the thing anyway. Besides, if he gets the Porsche van (Lets call it the 'Cavern' for now), he will be able to show it off to the guys when they go to the golf tournament in the next state.
It won't have a manual transmission, only the 'Tip", but it will have traction control, active handling and every other electronic aid they can integrate into the package to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The torque curve will be as flat as Kansas and the only way most of us would be caught dead in it is if they made a stripped-out version (or someone got a light roll-over salvage) as a parts hauler.
We're not the market for new Porsche cars (sort of like the first line for 'Middle Aged Crazy'). What we, the guys who keep 20 and 30 year old versions alive, think about the direction Porsche takes, is about as important as the color of the de-odorizers in the urinals in the men's room. (Did you notice? No? Neither did they.)
Les
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