Did anyone catch Road & Tracks Nov. 06 issue with the super SUV shoot out? They had the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, Cherokee SRT8, BMW X5, Tahoo SS, Infinity X45 and that supercharged Land Rover. The new Cayenne Turbo S and Benz M63 AMG weren't available for testing yet.
So anyway it was your basic performance appraisal on acceleration, slolom, braking etc. They talked about the increasing demand for more performance and all that but not once did they mention the SUV that started this craze. I have an issue of Muscle Machines from a few months back that did similar comparison but with pick up trucks and they did a better job giving the history of performance pick up's. They gave the performance specs and all that just like R&T but they remembered to give credit where it's damned well due by listing the Syclone as the once and still reigning king of performance pick up's. That same issue went on to do a piece on the Malboro Syclone's too.
The R&T article was still a good read though. The SRT8 blew them all away to 60 and through the quarter but that was the only one that put down times better than what the Ty's listed 13 years ago. The Cayenne Turbo was right there with the Ty through 60 and the quarter but it's also listed at 90K before tax. The rest of the SUV's in the test are lambs to the slaughter though and all of them save for the Tahoe SS were in the 60K range. The Tahoe and Cherokee SRT8 were 30K and 39K respectively.
The owner of my company drives a Cayenne Turbo, I think I'll go try and goat him into a race.
S.
So anyway it was your basic performance appraisal on acceleration, slolom, braking etc. They talked about the increasing demand for more performance and all that but not once did they mention the SUV that started this craze. I have an issue of Muscle Machines from a few months back that did similar comparison but with pick up trucks and they did a better job giving the history of performance pick up's. They gave the performance specs and all that just like R&T but they remembered to give credit where it's damned well due by listing the Syclone as the once and still reigning king of performance pick up's. That same issue went on to do a piece on the Malboro Syclone's too.
The R&T article was still a good read though. The SRT8 blew them all away to 60 and through the quarter but that was the only one that put down times better than what the Ty's listed 13 years ago. The Cayenne Turbo was right there with the Ty through 60 and the quarter but it's also listed at 90K before tax. The rest of the SUV's in the test are lambs to the slaughter though and all of them save for the Tahoe SS were in the 60K range. The Tahoe and Cherokee SRT8 were 30K and 39K respectively.
The owner of my company drives a Cayenne Turbo, I think I'll go try and goat him into a race.
S.
