[RKDinOKC]

Stopped after making it thru everything to wait for my sister in the minivan. A trucker in a rain slicker came up to my window from the other side of the highway. Told me he saw the whole thing and he just wanted to shake my hand cause it was amazing to see me slide around thru all that wreckage without hitting anything.

I attribute it all to autocross experience.

After two years of playing around once in a while (when it's safe traffic wise) daily driving the Cayenne. The other day I actually got it to 4 wheel drift around a corner. Wasn't able to duplicate it the one time I've tried since. It ain't easy, the thing does NOT want to slide at all, PSM takes over. Have to get the timing and speed just right. Had to be completely out of the brakes and done downshifting using the tiptronic in manual, then turn off the PSM and then get on the gas while starting the turn-in. If you have the PSM off and hit the brakes it turns it back on, then limits the throttle going into and thru the corner to keep it from drifting. If you aren't under full load even in manual mode it upshifts so you can't spin the wheels.

When the Cayennes first came out I test drove one. The local sales guy I was with was cool and didn't mind me trying to get it to drift. I couldn't even after several tries. The salesman said he would have been very impressed if I did. Said as part of their introduction he had gotten to ride with Hurley Haywood in one and he couldn't get it to slide on a wet track.