Porsche Cayenne GTS
For the final car review in our series, LUX sits behind the wheel of a metallic lime green Porsche Cayenne GTS
People who remember when Porsche was exclusively a maker of sports cars, rather than a purveyor of enormous white 4x4s for the elite school-run battleground, have particular fondness for the GTS badge. It was first applied to the final, glorious incarnation of the 928 grand touring car which was an object of lust for many car-maniacs in the 1980s and 1990s.
Subsequently Porsche applied the GTS label to its new range which involves SUVs and saloons, as well as the 911 sports cars. Unlike the 928, however, it wasn?t given to the fastest incarnations of these (which are usually the Turbo or GT models), but to a model which is a little more driver-focussed than the standard ones. Read next: Secrets to investing in Switzerland
Our Cayenne GTS came in a very psychedelic shade of metallic lime green. The Cayenne is the major school-run model (it also has a smaller sibling now, the Macan, perhaps for slightly less elite school runs). Having grown up with and owned ?real? Porsche sports cars, ones that don?t have you sitting ten feet above the ground, we slightly expected to hate it.
Rumble up the engine, switch on Sport, put it in Drive, and, well, this thing?s quite fun. Around a few corners and you?re not leaning all over the place, and nor do you have the sense that the car?s doing everything for you. There?s a little feel from the alcantara (man-ma...