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Model Guide: First-generation Cayenne — 2003-2010
PCA—It’s ironic that Porsche, a company best known for its sports cars, sold more than twice as many SUVs in North America last year. In fact, the automaker sold more Cayennes than 911s, Boxsters, and Caymans
combined. The luxury SUV was Porsche’s most popular model for years — until the Macan showed up, that is.
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Perfourmance News
is a monthly email newsletter offered by PCA specifically for four-door Porsche owners and enthusiasts interested in the latest news and information about Panamera, Taycan, Macan, and Cayenne vehicles.
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Road & Track—Porsche stunned the world two years ago with the debut of its all-electric Mission E sedan concept, later promising it'd go into production as the Taycan in 2020. The spy photos seen
throughout this post provide an early look at a Taycan prototype testing in public near Porsche's development center in Weissach, Germany. Here's everything we know about this incredibly exciting car.
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| | Car and Driver—My wife thinks that a minivan is the ideal machine for a family road trip. I maintain that the perfect solution is to put the kids in some sort of a trailer and then tow that with a Lamborghini
Aventador. So when we faced the prospect of an eight-hour drive to Disney World, I decided we should pile into a car that splits the difference: the Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo. Which is probably a lot more like an Aventador with a trailer than it is a Pacifica.
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Riesentöter Region—As many articles as I write and read about, Porsche’s best-selling vehicle always seems to get left out. In the December 2010 issue of Excellence magazine, there was a great article about
how affordable the used Cayenne market is becoming, and some things to watch out for when purchasing one. One of the items mentioned are the plastic coolant pipes that run on top of the engine, underneath the intake manifold.
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Northern New Jersey Region—If you own a Cayenne, Macan, SUV/Truck/Jeep, Race Car Tow Vehicle or any vehicle with 4 wheel drive, this is the event for you. Come experience the ‘off-road’ trails of the beautiful New Jersey Pine Barrens in a safe and family friendly venue. This event has no age restrictions, so bring the entire
family. Children 5 and under are free. The organizers have built a route that will give you a ‘true off-road experience’.
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Motor1—Bicycles and cars don’t mix. Nine times out of 10, one is mad at the other for various reasons often about who has the right of way – and who should park where. It’s an often volatile encounter filled with profanities and profane, spastic hand gestures waving in the air. But the two can aid one another when the situation requests it. Just take this modified Porsche Cayenne Turbo who helped a bicyclist
achieve a new world record thanks to simple physics.
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| | Car and Driver—Porsche's lineup has been rapidly expanding as of late, and a new report from Autocar says that the brand is
working on two-door coupe and convertible versions of the Panamera. These new models would mark yet another expansion of the Panamera lineup since the sedan's debut in 2009; the Panamera Sport Turismo wagon variant was added to the lineup when the second-generation Panamera arrived. Rumors have circulated for a while about this two-door Panamera, which would act as a rival for BMW's new 8-series.
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Forbes—There’s nothing unusual about taking a cab ride in New York. Aside from the subway, cabs have long been one of the most common ways to get around the city, although in recent years, cabs have increasingly given way ride-hailing. This weekend I used my phone to request a ride and was lucky enough to get a Porsche but it didn’t come from Lyft or Uber. I climbed into the back of a 2020 Porsche Taycan
prototype. We’re still about two months away from the official global debut of the Taycan, the brand’s first battery electric vehicle.
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| | Car Buzz—Porsche keeps setting new sales records, but it's still hardly what we'd call a "mass-market” or "mainstream” automaker. So when it issues a recall notice approaching six digits in scope, we sit up
and take notice. And that's just what it's done here. The German manufacturer, best known for its sports cars, has sent out a recall notice covering 99,665 of its vehicles in the United States alone – all of them from the first-generation Cayenne and Panamera families, equipped with automatic (or dual-clutch) transmissions.
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Pelican Parts—The driveshaft center bearing support is used to dampen vibration and lateral movement of the driveshaft as it spins. The factory design of the rubber seems to be a bit weak for the job, usually
resulting in the rubber cracking or tearing due to age and the elements. When the rubber starts to fail, you'll notice an odd vibration coming from the center console when accelerating. This vibration will only get worse over time, eventually turning into a loud knocking noise.
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| | Cars.com—Porsche updated its Panamera luxury performance car in 2017 and for 2018 added a new Sport Turismo model, which looks slightly more wagonlike than the regular Panamera and offers a bit more cargo
room. It also offers an extra seat, bumping up seating capacity from four to five with the addition of a middle position in back. For this Car Seat Check, we tested the 4 E-Hybrid Sport Turismo.
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Car Body Design—The goal of Porsche designers was to create a true sportscar in the compact SUV segment. To achieve this, they adopted wide and low overall proportions and used many of the design elements of
the brand’s DNA. The goal of Porsche designers was to create a true sportscar in the compact SUV segment. To achieve this, they adopted wide and low overall proportions and used many of the design elements of the brand’s DNA.
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| | PCA—Coolant leaks can be the bane of German vehicles, and Porsches are no exception. When Executive Director Vu Nguyen's 2006 Cayenne S started to smell like coolant, we narrowed the cause to an old coolant
expansion tank. Fortunately it took minimal parts and time to replace it — about 30 minutes. Watch this video to find out how to replace the coolant expansion tank in an E1 Cayenne S.
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Jalopnik—Porsche likes to take their Macan über-grocery getter to the track, but of course they do—they’re a fast-car company that doesn’t want to be called a sellout for building crossovers. Fortunately,
owners are now trolling 911s and other like sports cars in a crossover capable of pulling 1.13 G in a corner. It is glorious.
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| | CarGurus—Compare price, expert/user reviews, mpg, engines, safety, cargo capacity and other specs at a glance.
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duPont Registry—Nothing has intrigued the automotive world more than the notion of an electric Porsche. History repeats itself in that Ferdinand Porsche’s first car was the Lohner-Porsche electromobile in
1900. Twelve decades later, their new electric supercar is poised to change the world. In a press release yesterday, they celebrate that the Porsche Taycan was driven by Mark Webber at Goodwood. With an extensive Formula 1 career under his belt, he said “The Taycan’s power delivery is awesome”.
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| | Porsche Every Day—Does your Porsche sport a set of eye-catching chrome rims? For sure, you are proud to flaunt them every time you speed along the highway. You would want to make them stay in pristine
condition all the time. The key to keeping your Porsche rims looking like new is to clean it regularly. Dirt, mud, brake dust, and road debris always make their way to the vehicle rims. Moisture trapped within the rims makes it all the more vulnerable to corrosion. This is especially true for trucks. Rims need special attention when you do regular maintenance.
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DPCcars via YouTube—The typical Porsche flyline could be maintained within the Porsche Panamera, the technical implementation: the extendable rear spoiler.
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