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I'm very busy traveling like crazy. I'm right now in the office just for a few days....



Well, we always appreciate you stopping by Rennteam when you have the chance. You always seem to have great insights.


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I think the reason that the cost for Cayenne was not as high was the involvement of VW for the platform and the Engine was pretty much based on a modified version of AUDI RS6. So that was a lot of cost savings there.




This keeps being repeated and maybe there is some truth to it but I can't see how. The Audi V8 is a much more compact design with belt drive cams and 5 valve heads. The bore to bore spacing would not accomodate the Cayenne V8 pistons! I guess you could start with the Audi design, somehow enlarge the block (???), design new heads and cam drives and there you go. But after all that, what's left of the Audi design?



Hi Gary,

I'm sure the engine is not right out of AUDI RS6, they had to make some modifications. BTW, that's a great engine nothing negative about it. But from a very valid source I heard the the engine ECU (Program) is, if not identical, at least 90% the same as RS6 engine.
I also heard that not two engines would have the same ECU, they're kind of like finger prints different from one another but in this case having at least 90% similarity in the ECU, to me, it indicates that Porsche took a lot from AUDI on the engine side.

As I said RS6 engine is probably one of the best engines out there. Hope my comment did not come across offensive to our Cayenne owners .