Porsche’s Cayenne Coupe Turbo will even make 911 owners nervous

Back successful 2002, Porsche fans sputtered pinch rage arsenic the Cayenne made its debut astatine the Paris Motor. More than 20 years later, Porsche now sells much SUVs than thing other successful its lineup. Last year, the Macan and Cayenne accounted for 62 percent of each Porsche sales. Now, these SUVs are trolling traditionalists successful a full caller way: They’ve gone electric, pinch a Cayenne Electric joining a smaller plug-in Macan. And the Cayenne Coupe Turbo is accelerated capable to person 911 owners looking complete their shoulders.

Even Porsche’s hardcore fans, the benignant who be Lollapalooza-type festivals to believe a bygone property of air-cooled engines, person to springiness the Turbo Coupe Electric immoderate credit. The caller Cayenne has a morganatic declare arsenic the astir powerful Porsche of each time, boasting a loopy 1,139 horsepower and 1,106 pound-feet of torque. Not a 911, aliases a seven-figure supercar for illustration a 918 Spyder: instead, a suburb-loving, lacrosse-gear-hauling SUV.

This electrical Cayenne treats the beingness existence for illustration a cosmic joke, accelerating faster than galore supercars, and dispatching curves like, well, a Porsche. That includes a fewer effortless runs to its 261-kph highest — 162 mph for america Yanks — connected unrestricted portions of the German Autobahn.

The Turbo Coupe settles into an effortless 110-mph pace, gliding connected modular aerial springs, optional rear-axle steering, and the Active Ride suspension. That wizardly strategy pairs sensors, electrical motors, and hydraulic dampers to counteract assemblage motions. Each damper tin dress up to 2,250 pounds of proactive unit astatine individual wheels, independently of inputs from pavement bumps. In its Comfort mode, the progressive strategy allows the Cayenne to “helicopter,” seemingly hovering (a spot strangely) complete the roadworthy aboveground pinch virtually nary assemblage tilt.

A stupid-fast explanation extends to charging. Electric Cayennes tin highest complaint astatine a sizzling 400 kilowatts, matching a Lucid Gravity SUV. They tin support a wide capable charging curve to refill a 108 kilowatt-hour artillery from 10-to-80 percent successful little than 16 minutes.

This Cayenne wears a Cape

Porsche says the Coupe Turbo tin blitz 60 mph successful 2.4 seconds. I’d opportunity it’s person to 2.2 seconds, based connected my cerebellum-squeezing starts successful the Bavarian countryside, a clip that shames respective big-name supercars past and present. Defying a astir 5,900-pound curb weight, the Coupe Turbo dashes from 0–124 mph (200 kph) successful a ridiculous 7.4 seconds. It covers a quarter-mile successful 9.9 seconds, astir a afloat 2nd quicker than a Ferrari 12Cilindri. That’s accompanied by a amazingly charming synthesized sound that recalls a German V-8 by measurement of Trent Reznor. Drivers tin dial down aliases unopen disconnected the ersatz motor roar erstwhile they for illustration an EV whisper.

Turbo versions make 845 horsepower successful normal operation, reserving the afloat 1,139 horses for automated launches. But an F1-style “push-to-pass” characteristic summons 173-horsepower shots of electrical overboost whenever you property a steering-wheel button. Those nitrous-like bumps are constricted to 10-second intervals, versus 20 seconds successful a 911 GTS hybrid, to support temperatures successful check.

One compression of the slim, ergonomically perfect GT steering instrumentality is simply a reminder that this is still a Porsche. As pinch Porsche’s Taycan sedan, that steering feels brilliantly agile and natural, pinch a tactile relationship to the roadworthy that goes missing successful excessively galore EVs.

Automakers often rotation dubious connections betwixt their racecars and thoroughfare cars. Here, a muscular rear electrical centrifugal claims a direct, morganatic tech transportation from Porsche’s championship-winning Formula E team. The motor’s soul stator and live-electricity copper windings are bathed successful a Mobil-designed lipid that doesn’t behaviour electricity, a immense cooling advantage versus outer h2o jackets that typically situation a motor’s case. The ingenious creation lets the Porsche regenerate braking energy astatine a torrential 600-kilowatt pace, matching its Formula E cars, without overcooking soul components.

Porsche stubbornly refuses to see a one-pedal EV driving mode, preferring to seashore for illustration acquainted ICE machines erstwhile you assistance disconnected throttle. Yet springiness the brake pedal a squeeze, and Porsche claims 97-percent of real-world stops will beryllium handled wholly by the electrical motors. Press the pedal deeper, and the Cayenne will yet prosecute its mega-powered beingness brakes, including optional ceramic-composite units — and truthful seamlessly that I couldn’t spot the modulation to clash braking connected a bet.

Streamlined Style, Stamina

Versus a standard, square-backed Cayenne, these Coupes are known by their sloping rooflines, a “flyline” silhouette inspired by the 911. It’s a friskier, little family-oriented assemblage style that 40 percent of American buyers chose successful 2025, contempt a humble punishment successful cargo space.

Offered successful either assemblage style, these first-ever electrical Cayennes leap up of Porsche’s internal-combustion versions, whose aging existent procreation traces to 2019. They’re built connected a dedicated electrical platform, sharing near-zero components pinch gasoline models. A astir five-inch wheelbase agelong delivers invited gains successful rear legroom. A 3.2 cubic-foot frunk will fresh a brace of backpacks, but nary more.

A shapely snout integrates progressive beforehand cooling flaps, pinch signature gym-pumped rear shoulders and an progressive rear spoiler. On the Turbo, a brace of motorized “aeroblades” look adjacent the rear bumper. The Coupe’s fastback style delivers a slippery 0.23 coefficient of drag, versus 0.25 for a modular model. So Coupes should compression retired 10 aliases 11 miles much driving range.

Porsche says the Coupes, offered successful 3 strengths, should scope betwixt 356 and 416 miles. Those estimates are based connected generous world WLPT trial procedures. Our EPA has yet to measurement in. But based connected my drives and math, these Coupes should each apical 340 miles successful their sleep. Porsche’s superlative Taycan is already known to easy transcend EPA scope figures.

New Porsche, New Customers

It’s ironic that the astir powerful Porsche ever is designed to tempt newbies who whitethorn attraction much astir the bells and whistles of a luxury EV than German performance. Porsche’s awesome leap guardant successful tech and infotainment whitethorn rank among its biggest trading points arsenic it tries to pull first-time buyers.

The lavish cockpit centers connected a vertical, 14.25-inch OLED “flow screen” that bends toward the console for illustration a elephantine flip phone. (Drivers are welcomed pinch a ample greeting animation that shows a Cayenne successful the nonstop assemblage colour of their car that they tin twirl astir pinch their fingers. Cute.) A leather manus remainder is simply a keystroke of genius, making it easy to power the surface while successful motion. Blessedly, old-school analog switches negociate regularly sought controls, specified arsenic a measurement knob and somesthesia toggles.

An optional rider surface blows distant erstwhile shotgun screens from Ferrari and others, pinch broad functions and video streaming that’s digitally shielded from a driver’s view. There’s a batch going connected here. But someway it each works, from a Porsche that, decades ago, utilized to slap successful an AM/FM Blaupunkt power and telephone it a day. And unlike, say, Mercedes’ stadium-sized “Hyperscreen,” the strategy doesn’t suck up each the cabin’s creation oxygen, aliases overwhelm its occupants.

One misstep is an AR heads-up show that takes up excessively overmuch existent property successful a driver’s view; floating navigation arrows go intrusive motes successful your eye. Screen-based vent controls are different inclination Porsche mightiness person skipped, though they’re easier to run than Rivian’s aliases Lucid’s vents.

Electric Power, astatine a Price

The Turbo Coupe starts from $170,350, and pinged $233,000 for my options-laden trial model. A modular Coupe Electric will inquire $116,150 erstwhile these Porsches get successful precocious summer. The “starter” exemplary offers a perfectly capable 402 horsepower, 435 from a launch, and a 4.5-second tally from 0–60 mph. The Cayenne S Electric I drove feels for illustration the strudel-like saccharine spot successful the lineup, pinch 536 horsepower, 657 horses of max overboost, and a wicked 3.7-second sprint to 60 mph. That’s arsenic speedy arsenic a BMW X6M Competition SUV pinch a 617-horsepower V-8.

That S exemplary starts from $133,550. Stuffed pinch options, it reaches $201,150. Seems we were conscionable getting utilized to Porsches being $100,000 cars, and now they’re $200,000 cars.

EV fans fresh to splurge mightiness see Porsche’s wireless inductive charging system. At a luncheon stop, I rotation the Cayenne atop a magnetic crushed pad that owners tin instal successful a garage, aliases an outdoor driveway. A surface show guides maine into docking position, by joining a brace of animated greenish circles, 1 representing the moving car, the different the pad below. The Cayenne originates to complaint for illustration a three-ton smartphone, absorbing 11 kilowatts of AC juice — nary awkward cord aliases plug required. Don’t interest astir stray cats aliases kids: The Porsche stops charging if it senses mobility astir the pad.

Inductive transportation is beardown capable to complaint the Cayenne’s hefty artillery from 10 to 80 percent successful little than 9 hours. Skip a fewer superficial options successful favour of this pioneering location system, and you whitethorn seldom touch a grubby plug again. In different charging news, these Cayennes are the first Porsches pinch an onboard Tesla-style NACS connector.

Warm Reception aliases Cold Shoulder?

Versus the old, SUVs-off-my-lawn debates, these electrical Cayennes carnivore genuine issues connected their wide shoulders: a tariff authorities that heavy taxes these pricey European-built machines. A slowdown successful EV adoption, and a Chinese marketplace that presently prefers its ain EVs. In an ironic upside, a warfare successful Iran is providing an unforeseen opening for energy-efficient models, contempt the Trump administration’s attempts to strangle EVs successful their crib. And arsenic pinch the arguable Ferrari Luce, the assemblage is still retired connected whether Porsche tin person capable group to move to an electrical capacity car.

That’s a batch of baggage for these Porsches to haul erstwhile they arrive, caller disconnected the vessel from a mill successful Bratislava, Slovakia. One point is certain: America’s Cayenne buyers will beryllium casting a progressive vote, pinch fattened wallets, for the unstoppable advancement of EVs.

Photography by Porsche