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Now Porsche makes a Turtle on Stilts too

Well, it must be Turtle on Stilts week in the motor trade — now Porsche has joined in that craze hot on the heels of Tesla’s Model Y, the revised Merc GLC Coupe, Kia’s promised sleek Cee’d SUV and we even tested a BMW X4 in that time. What exactly is a Turtle on Stilts? Well, it’s a sport utility trying to be a sports coupe — an anomaly at first consideration, but they are actually quite cool — I mean a Porsche should be a coupe even if its a SUV, right. Well, maybe.

Anyway, here’s the all-new Porsche Cayenne Coupé — rakish and restyled version of the brand’s largest SUV ready to take the BMW X6 and Mercedes-Benz GLE by the neck with a sleeker windscreen line and a coupe-like roofline tapering into a large liftback tailgate complete with an active rear spoiler that extending raises 135mm at over 100km/h to add downforce.

The four-man Cayenne Coupé has individual rear seats split by a centre armrest, but a three-seat rear bench for the brats is a no cost option and either way, rear occupants sit 30mm lower to free up head room under the sloping roofline, but boot capacity is down 145 litres and 170 litres less than the regular Cayenne with the rear bench up or down, respectively.

Cayenne Coupé also comes with a standard panoramic glass roof with integrated roller blind as standard but a a contoured, carbon-reinforced plastic roof is and option as part of one of three lightweight sports packages that also include unique exterior design detailing, 22-inch wheels, carbon fibre and Alcantara interior trims and a sports exhaust on the Turbo.

Available in a 250kW 450Nm turbo 2.9-litre petrol good for 100km/h in 5.9 seconds and 245km/h at 212g/km CO2 and the 405kW 770Nm biturbo 4-litre biturbo petrol V8 ready to race to 100km/h in 3.9 seconds and 245km/h at 258g/km, two plug-in hybrids will come later. That is compares to both the BMW X6 M and Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 S Coupé with 0-100km/h in 4.2sec and a limited 250km/h.