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Porsche Cajun to be three-door SUV-coupe?
The Porsche Cajun is making it to production while that’s no surprise to anyone, it might be more interesting to discover that it won’t be just a smaller version of the Porsche Cayenne. According to AutoBild, the Cajun will take on a SUV-coupe design and will be a three-door model.
The name isn’t official yet, and it looks like we could still see a different design developed for what’s known as the Baby Cayenne model. A la Range Rover Evoque, perhaps..? In any case, the Cajun will be sporty and should more closely embody Porsche tradition on a SUV model. It will have a short wheelbase and the new kit will be such to disguise its close relationship with the Audi Q5.
Cajun production is set to start at the end of this year, but the German magazine suggests we won’t see a Cajun market launch until 2013. They claim that it was set to be a conventional SUV model with a five-door body, but then it was decided to do something different from the Cayenne and the Q5 and give the Cajun a sportier soul. A five-door Cajun at a later date hasn’t been excluded, though.
New entry-level Porsche: Cajun to production
The Porsche Cajun, or baby Cayenne as it has been previously known, will mark a new entry-level model Porsche much like the Boxster in the coupé segment for the brand. Porsche has made a brief announcement that the Cajun will go to production, introducing a smaller model under the world-famous Cayenne, that will target a younger audience as its first introduction to the brand.
While the Porsche Cajun is supposed to include some of the classic features of a Porsche like lightweight, fun handling, we’re more interested in what the design will be like. It sounds like it won’t necessarily be a more compact version of the Cayenne, as it word is that Walter de Silva is already working on the design, and the platform could be loosely based on the Audi Q5.
We’re interested to see if we won’t get a kind of coupé/SUV design, and possible even a three-door model, which could be a competitor to the new Range Rover Evoque. Porsche already has a significant foothold in the SUV segement off which to work, but the new Evoque is definitely a gorgeous model and well known for the strength of the Range Rover brand. Porsche hasn’t revealed when we might see the Cajun but previous reports indicate that it could be no earlier than 2014. The announcement is after the jump.
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New Porsche Cajun compact SUV to be produced
Rumours of a possible baby Cayenne model have been circulating for a long time now, and finally it looks like a compact Porsche SUV might make it to market under the name of the Porsche Cajun. Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn announced the possibility in an interview with Der Spiegel German magazine, saying that Porsche will release: “a new SUV, smaller brother to the Cayenne which might be named Cajun”.
The move is part of expansion plans to the Porsche line-up to increase sales and should offer Porsche fans more than just the classic coupé models. Some problems with competition among the VAG brands might occur as the Porsche Cayenne shares the same platform with the Volkswagen Touareg and the Audi Q7.
However, we expect that the Porsche compact SUV would be aimed at a different market and certainly at a different price point. It may be joined by a small sports car as Porsche seeks to double sales to 150,000 units comprised of both its sports cars and SUV models. According to the reports from Germany, we could see the compact SUV appear sometime in 2014 or 2015.
Source | Automotive News
Porsche Panamera GT rendering: sales drive includes Baby Cayenne
The Porsche Panamera could get a coupé version soon as the company looks to reach 150,000 sales a year by 2015. The aim would be achieved by broadening the Porsche offering and the development of the Panamera could prove as important as the emergence of the Cayenne SUV.
The Panamera coupé, currently called the Panamera GT, would be a front engined model which would mark Porsche’s re-entry on the market after its final front engined model, the 928, was abandoned back in 1995. According to the (persistent) rumours, Volkswagen has also specified that the Panamera GT should not compete with the Bentley Continental GT, which will be significantly lighter than the current model (and would likely appeal to a different customer, anyway).
With the Panamera GT and the small central-engine spider which Porsche will develop with Volkswagen, we will see a third option that will widen the range: the compact SUV, or “Baby Cayenne” as it has been known. Its development was shelved by Porsche, but if it manages to be comfortable positioned alongside the Audi Q5, it could be a key model in Porsche’s drive to achieve more sales.
Source | Automobile Magazine
Porsche Roxster renderings: baby Cayenne still rumoured
Here are renderings of the Porsche Roxster compact SUV that may appear in 2012, as the company works on its “baby Cayenne” model. While Porsche has denied the project, the Roxster could be an ideal model in the aim of doubling sales within the next four years. Another model we might see as part of this project is the Volkswagen BlueSport-based roadster.
The Porsche Roxster, in these renderings, appears more as a crossover model than a real SUV, with sports-style design that reflects the Audi Q5. Meaning Porsche will be spoiled for choice on choosing a Volkswagen group model on which to base its compact SUV.
Source | Autosblog.fr
Porsche: more spy shots of the baby SUV
Just outside of Stuttgart, the new baby Cayenne from Porsche has again been caught on camera by spy photographers. The sports utility, the Cayenne’s little brother, will do battle in the sector inaugurated in 2003 by the BMW X3, and recently brought back to life with the Audi Q5 and the Mercedes GLK.
According to latest reports, the old “Roxster” hypothesis is back in vogue but it’s still too early for such details. What is certain is the close relationship with the Audi Q5, with a shared technical base as we had previously surmised and as what happened with the Cayenne-Touareg-Q7 family.
The technical details also include a strong engine correlation with Audi: it appears that we can’t go back on the adoption of a Volkswagon diesel engine, as per the biggest Cayenne.
Porsche: more news on the baby cayenne
Always denied by the Germans, the baby Cayenne is slowly coming to light with some prototypes spotted on the Nurburgring. The new VAG group associates have launched the possibility that Porsche will use the base of the new Audi Q5 to make its own compact SUV, as has already happened for the Cayenne with the Volkswagon Tuareg and the Audi Q7.
The spirit should be sporty with V6 engines but also V8 coming from the big sister, sports handling and power from 280 to 500 hp, with technological pearls such as direct injection and double-clutch shift on arrival on the restyled 911. There’s also a possible hybrid version and as we’ve already seen for the Cayenne, a V6 3.0 TDI Audi engine. Perhaps this last news is what hurts fans more than a Porsche range with two SUVs.
Via | MotorAuthority.com
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