Porsche announces development of Cayenne Hybrid
On the heels of the announcement that
Porsche, Volkswagen and Audi will team up to develop
gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, Porsche said that it will build a hybrid version of its Cayenne SUV. The
alteration to the SUV will deliver a fuel savings of 15 percent while "retaining its legendary Porsche driving
dynamics." The full hybrid system and the Cayenne are expected by 2010. I could certainly be wrong, but I
imagine that the PR people at Volkswagen and Audi are currently in the process of cooking up similar press
releases for the Touareg and Q7, both of which share more than a few parts with the Cayenne.
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Mal Fuller 10:37PM (12/18/2005)
Boy!
This proves that the automotive landscape is really being PEPPERED with new entries! (Or is it entrees?
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Joel A 10:37PM (12/18/2005)
Porshe? Eh. Where's your hybrid, Jaguar? "Borrow" it from Ford or something.
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Gary 10:37PM (12/18/2005)
Porsche. SUV. Hybrid.
My mind is just not large enough to grasp those three concepts simultaneously.
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Sean Flanagan 10:37PM (12/18/2005)
Gary, you're lucky. My brain explodes when I think of two of them at a time.
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JustJase 10:37PM (12/18/2005)
Pointless!
Am I the only one to think that they could just slap a HYBRID badge on it, gear it to get a couple more MPG and no one would know the difference?
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Mike 10:37PM (12/18/2005)
I for one think hybrids are a reality for the future. I don't think we'll run out of gas anytime soon but we are seeing prices get higher and higher. The folks at Porsche aren't stupid, I'm sure they know they need to develop the technology. I also bet they come up with a respectable high performance hybrid system.
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Research Hybrids 10:37PM (12/18/2005)
End of the decade? That sounds pretty ridiculous. And to only achieve a 15% improvement?
I guess it probably would sell like hotcakes with the normal Porsche demographic but I would have expected something better from this company. Say a 50% fuel consumption improvement with no degredation in performance? It's a dream, but it's Porsche!
By the time this vehicle comes out we may already be onto hydrogen or pure electric cars.
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