Superman-Hulk-Mr.Hyde---Its just a little bit of all of them!

We all read comic books while growing up. Some of them were about a little rich kid, a few about detective stories but most of all we loved the super hero comic books. I mean Tin Tin was cool with his dog snowy and the witty drunk captain Haddock but come on we all know we loved Batman and Super Man more. They had more power, did awesome things and yet they also looked pretty much like normal human being, with the exception of a few like HULK and others. I can write whole day about super heroes but this writing isn't about a super hero , it is about a vehicle which is a super car among cars and can do super things with its super power. It's none other than the PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO S.


If the CTS (referred to as Cayenne Turbo S) had super parents then its dad was superman and its mom was Ms. HULK. I mean look at it, it sure isn't the prettiest SUV nor is it the ugliest but none of them is important, because whenever I see this menace I just say to myself there is nothing more important in life than this car, but thank god that feeling lasts only about the few seconds because the moment you blink its GONE...ZOOM.. You see every ten or twenty years a new kind of car comes and sets a benchmark. The Cayenne is not the first of its kind; I really like to put it in a different class than even its brother in the same line up the Cayenne S and the Cayenne.


An SUV is basically a definition of a practical vehicle which can carry a party of five or even seven in some cases, has lots of space, a decent to bad gas mileage and pretty much will roll over on a bend in any speed above 95 MPH, no matter what the manufactures' claim. The CTS does exact the opposite, it is highly impractical with its $100k price tag , can hardly fit two large adults in the rear seat, the boot is good for a medium size dog but if you have a New found land or a Great Dane then you better get the Range Rover and GAS MILEAGE ..and let me just say WHO CARES WHEN YOU JUST DROPPED $100k on a car and think about gas mileage? So to sum it up, it's not as pretty as the Range Rover or the X5, nor is it practical, has insanely bad gas mileage, but and it's a big but, it WONT ROLLOVER EVEN AT BENDS OVER 130 MPH.


I am not going to even bother about giving the back ground of this car as it�s been talked about so much in the past several years. Here is how I met this car summer last year. I just flew in to Los Angeles from Bangkok on a fifteen hour flight with bad air plane food and shitty movies and sleepless for over 24 hours. My friend Bryant picked me up from the airport and he picked me up in his Cayenne Turbo S. He offered me to drive and I was really tired and didn't know if I was up to it to drive 45 miles towards the inland empire from Orange County. Reluctantly I took the keys and all of that just took a pause as I put my hands on the steering wheel of Mr. Hyde. Yes, the insanity I felt when I floored it was quite similar to the taking off of the Boeing 777 from Bangkok. Turbo charged cars have lags, no matter how less, they have a brief second of nothing nothing nothing and then a whole lot of everything comes around 3500 RPM but I yelled out YAA ALLAH (something similar to sweet mother of god) expression when at 2500 rpm my eye lids were thrown backwards and yeah a few gallons of fuel with it. I shifted up down, changed lanes, put to 4th on Sport and floored and it picked up in a zip and it was like a genie was hiding in the engine bay and did everything like magic. (Later in the week we did something more irresponsible which we can leave out for another day lol @ Bryant..DON DON)


There were some things that bothered me the most in this car, first of the panoramic roof had a see through screen which really didn't cover the sunlight, and it does get hot in most parts of the world during May/June, there is no Bluetooth connectivity but had a stupid SIM card slot so one fine morning your wife needs the car and you left your sim in the car, and it's just a hassle to take out your sim, put it in and then blah blah blah! so yeah bad design Porsche . Although it is kind of cool reading the Text Msg coming in to the navigation screen which is not so great either if you are bitching about a person on text msg who is inside the car with you. The rear seats were not as bad as other reviews have said but its best left for smaller people and kids. The ride quality was exceptionally great even being such a sports car like handling the active dynamic suspension system on sports mode takes care of things when you are in the mood of some spirited driving.

So the car is exceptional , it does what it's made for, and does not even want to be practical or politically correct or make any save the world kind of notion. If your address is San Francisco, New York, London or any big metropolis and your name isn't a combination of acronyms you will NOT like this car. If you have hard earned money and you care about your life and your family and others on the road, you will not like this car. If you are a petrol head, and while growing up had a million posters of Porsche's and Lambo's in your wall and your only great passion in life is the rev meter going up and away, then YOU WILL LOVE IT TILL IT RUNS EMPTY ON FUEL!!! There are many reasons to hate this car, but I just like to play the cheesy song of Michael Jackson. I JUST CANT STOP LOVING YOU.

Cheers to the Supercar of our time.
Saad Nusrat Khan
14/1/2008