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Porsche has released official details about the new Cayenne diesel, the first oil-burning car from the famous sports car manufacturer.
It’s powered by a 3.0-litre V6 turbodiesel powerplant, borrowed from stablemate brand Audi and will be going on sale in February next year. The 3.0 TDI engine offers 240bhp and returns a combined 30mpg in the Cayenne, according to Porsche’s official figures. That equates to CO2 emissions of 244g/km.

A Porsche statement said the decision to offer a diesel Cayenne was “taken in response to changed legal regulations, especially in European markets, resulting in tax incentives for vehicles with diesel engines… Porsche’s stake in the Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest manufacturer of modern diesel engines for passenger cars, has opened up new opportunities to utilise diesel technology.”

The statement also acknowledged that Porsche is working on a hybrid version of the Cayenne, which it claims will offer fuel consumption ‘in excess of 30mpg’. It’s all part of an effort to boost the Cayenne’s dwindling sales as the economic crisis takes hold.

The diesel model will be offered with the Tiptronic-S automatic gearbox as standard.

It'll cost cost £40,250 when it reaches British showrooms in February 2009.


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Going to be a lot of war between the Q7 and Cayenne!

Well tbh the Cayenne is so ugly and to make it worse its now in a diesel

Id take a Q7

Official Press Release

Porsche AG - Press releases - About Porsche - Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG

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Stuttgart. The Executive Board at Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has given the go-ahead: from February 2009, the sports car manufacturer will offer a Cayenne with a diesel engine and thus extend its range of drives for the sporty all-terrain vehicle further, once again. This decision was taken in response to changed legal regulations especially in European markets, resulting in tax incentives for vehicles with diesel engines. Furthermore, Porsche's stake in the Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest manufacturer of modern diesel engines for passenger cars, has opened up new opportunities to utilise diesel technology.

Porsche will equip the Cayenne with a three-litre V6 turbo diesel engine with 240 hp (176 kW) supplied by Audi AG, a subsidiary of the VW Group. The average consumption of the Cayenne Diesel is 9.3 litres per
100 kilometres, with CO2 at 244 grams per kilometre. The spontaneous throttle response and the high torque characteristics of this diesel engine deliver the required performance levels for a sporty all-terrain vehicle such as the Cayenne. The substantial torque of a maximum of
550 Newton metres complements the sporty chassis dynamics and provides a high degree of control to offer driving enjoyment that is typical of Porsche.

In response to customer demand, the new Cayenne model will initially be offered in Europe. Preparations for market introduction in other countries are underway.

The Porsche Executive Board is confident that it will maintain the long term market success of the Cayenne series in the long term with the low-consumption V6 turbo diesel. In the last financial year 2007/08, 45,478 units of this series (which currently incorporates five different models) were sold - more than ever before in a financial year.

With the introduction of the Cayenne Diesel, Porsche is consistently continuing its commitment to reduce fuel consumption. As early as Spring 2007, the sports car manufacturer had equipped the new generation of the Cayenne series with engines with petrol direct injection that consume up to 15 percent less fuel in real-world driving conditions. Since the summer of 2008, Porsche has also offered the most recent generation of the 911 series with direct-injection petrol engines. The sports car manufacturer is also working on another Cayenne variant with hybrid drive that will consume less than nine litres of fuel per
100 kilometres and will be launched onto the market at the end of the decade.

The new Cayenne with diesel drive will be available from dealers from February 2009 onwards. Equipped with the proven Tiptronic-S automatic gearbox as standard, the Euro base price will be EUR 47,250.
In Germany, the Cayenne with diesel engine including 19 percent VAT and country-specific equipment costs EUR 56,436.

Well, it's a great move from Porsche and very brave too!

Lot's of people buy the Cayenne just to impress their neighbours or the members of their local golf club, not caring about the performance of their car! Others buy it because they simply like the looks of it. Then why not choose a diesel powerplant, that has enough power and a very nice fuel economy?

BTW, it's nice that they take advantage of Audi's excellent diesel engines!

It's about time! It will be interesting to see how big share of the Cayenne sales this diesel engine will be responsible of. Can't wait to read proper tests.

I would love this engine more, then the small Cayenne V6!! A diesel isn't a bad engine for such a car. And it's really about time.

Brilliant... Heavy as hell, super-weak motor, same noise as a Golf TDI , ugly as to the point of being ridiculous... Mmhh, that is a proper Porsche. Audi-motor, VW body...

It's good, a Porsche that can be smoked by anything faster than a paralytic snail, but emitting a lot more smoke... Well, ML and X5 owners will laugh a good deal with that...thing.

Honestly, what is Porsche in this garbage? Nothing. it's the exact contrary of what Porsche stands for. I can't find anything remotely good in that move.

It's a very good way to spoil Porsche's image, though. And to bother Q7 sales.

With moves like this, suddenly I'm not so anxious about PAH threatening Daimler and BMW any more .

New one please, stop milking it.

Nevertheless, I asked myself! In cooperation with Audi - OK - but why no V12 diesel then!!