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69bossnine said:
Are you suggesting that if you had a Cayenne, you would be able to drive it for work purposes?? If that's the case, I suppose I can understand the premise, but it's still a nutty transition to off your sportscar for a school bus that handles. Are you going to put a soccer ball sticker in the back window?? (O.K., that was unfair, cold, and cheap... I'll straighten up!
If you need room for passengers for your work, and you can't justify keeping the 997 as a weekend-only fun car, then why not get a 1st class sports SEDAN? The Cayenne has absolutely no more interior room than any mid-size sedan, and you pay an enormous driving-dynamic penalty in something that is sprung so stiffly, combined with such a high center of gravity. Whenever I drive any of these modern "performance utes", I feel like I'm driving my 997..... FROM THE ROOF, hanging onto an extended steering wheel for dear life due to the constant lateral jouncing and bucking.... all just to satisfy people who have this obsession SUV's, with sitting high above traffic, and those who get sprung at the prospect of being able to go off-road, yet they never actually GO off-roading.
If you can't tell, I find performance utes to be rather absurd tools. I understand Suburbans and Yukons and Navigators and the ilk. They have a soft comfortable ride, fit a TON of gear and kids comfortably, and my wife is obsessed with sitting high. Perfect tool for a serious job. But when you try to mix serious performance in, you wind up with a mutation, the unholy offspring of an Elephant and a Cheetah, that in truth, does NOTHING very well, but alot of things adequately I suppose. I just don't see the sense in spending megabucks on something that's too small inside to be a good family hauler, too heavy to be really fast (even the pricey Turbo isn't much of a sizzler to me, I suppose it's just your perspective), too tall to really handle well without tossing occupants around like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and too damn nice to really feel good about getting nutty off-road. The whole thing is just an enigma to me. And if you simply want to haul-butt with SUV seating, doesn't the SRT8 Jeep look sharp, decent interior, faster than all models of Cayenne except the new uber-pricey Turbo S, and you might be able to afford it AND keep your 997??? I'm rambling, I know, just trying to give you a full range of ideas/perspective...
If I needed to trade-off my 997 to gain more utility and interior/cargo space, I'd be testing out all of the performance sedan offerings from BMW, Mercedes, Audi, and even the Japenese and Cadillac. I'd have all the room for comfort, and a vehicle that actually handled and rode properly. That's my opinion.
However, if you're saying that you wouldn't use the Cayenne during the week either, you just think you'd use it "more" on the weekends than the 997.... If that's the premise, I think your wife needs to have you Baker Acted.
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). Some people just want an SUV for the higher driving position, higher headroom, etc.
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GM Austin said:
Also, and I know I'm in the minority here, the Cayenne is actually capable (and competent) of going off-road.
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