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The enemy image of the Porsche Cayenne has had its day
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Even bigger, more expensive, but much more economical than before, the new Porsche Cayenne went on sale in May 2010.
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The new generation of the large off-road vehicle is almost four hundred pounds lighter and, with a lower roof line, much more streamlined.
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Increased performance, reduced consumption: This is the motto for the entire new motorization of the SUV.
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With a standard consumption of 8.2 liters and CO2 emissions of 193 g / km, the new Cayenne S Hybrid is the most economical gasoline engine in the entire model range.
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The Cayenne can never be a majority car. However, with the second generation, Porsche will probably open further doors on the international market.
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With the inclined center console and the new instruments, the interior of the Cayenne now looks similar to the Panamera.
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Large cars became the No. 1 enemy during the climate hysteria. The fat SUVs and limousines were on the list of "Climate pests" at the top. But now even green fundamentalists have to rethink. And not just because the new Porsche Cayenne only consumes eight liters.
W.hen someone drove a Porsche on “Lindenstrasse”, you could be sure that they would hit, rape or murder someone in the near future. When Peter Weck married his family in “I marry a family”, he first had to sell his white 911 before he mutated from a selfish architect to a nice stepfather. In “Manta, Manta” the villain, a sleazy disco owner, drives in one Ferrari 328 GTS through the pot.
It has always been easy to hate the drivers of luxury cars and sports cars, especially in the peace and eco-friendly 1980s, when – at least in the media – wealth aroused suspicion. And yet there was this silent majority back then, who stood by the roadside in admiration when they saw a freshly waxed Ferrari. One dreamed of a Porsche.
It was only through the climate debate that the hatred nurtured by envy and ideology was apparently legitimized and reached the masses. The Porsche Cayenne, a monster on wheels, was at first a status symbol that aroused envy. It was only environmental activists who made it the symbol for climate pigs. A campaign against sports cars, upper-class cars and off-road vehicles began, which also led to the fact that in some parts of Berlin or Hamburg you could no longer park a car without running the risk of it being torched.
The new generation of the Cayenne shows how nonsensical it all is. The flagship model is the Cayenne S Hybrid, which develops 380 hp and consumes 8.2 liters of fuel. But even the models without an additional electric motor consume less fuel with the same or more engine power. The turbo, with around 500 hp, consumes just 11.5 liters per 100 kilometers.
Anyone who consumes 11.5 liters per 100 kilometers is still an environmental pig, the activists may object, just like the other sports car drivers and the upper-class bigwigs. And it’s true: Nobody needs an off-road vehicle with 500 hp, a sports car with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour. However, you can drive such cars with a clear conscience. The luxury car driver is not an eco-pig. On the contrary: the owner of a luxury car usually does a better job for the climate than someone who buys an average small car.
First to the sports cars: The Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Aston Martins of this world do not care about the climate. It is estimated that there are around 700 million automobiles in the world and most of them are polluters. They drive as taxis through the streets of Nairobi, as vegetable transporters on the gravel roads of Iran, as a means of transport for family men to work on the highways of the USA and the highways of Europe. Experts like Ferdinand Dudenhoffer, who heads the Center of Automotive Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, estimate that there are around 5000 Ferarris for every 50-60 million vehicles that are sold each year. In the vast majority of cases, these Ferraris belong to enthusiasts who leave them in the garage most of the time and only use them for a trip on the weekend.
"The share of sports cars in the CO2 pollution for the global climate is hardly measurable," says Dudenhofer. "With 40 million cars registered in Germany alone, it doesn’t matter if a couple of Ferraris, Porsches or oldtimers race over the Nurburg Nordschleife on Sunday." The fact that the new Cayenne Turbo emits 247 grams of CO2 per kilometer is completely insignificant because this car The new acquisition costs 115,526 euros. An Aston Martin DBS Volante costs 253,850 euros. His contribution to global warming: none.
Not to be neglected is the share of luxury cars. Anyone who drives to work every morning in a limousine such as the Mercedes S-Class or the new 7-series BMW naturally contributes to global warming with their increased CO2 emissions. That it is also making a contribution to protecting the global climate may sound absurd at first, but it is still correct.
You have to know how innovations work. They always go the way from top to bottom. Innovations are expensive and are almost always to be found first in the upper-class models.
This is just as true for environmental compatibility as it is for the safety of cars. ESP, ABS, airbags, independent suspension – all of this was first developed for luxury cars. Just like the gasoline direct injection, now standard also in the compact class.
Former Porsche boss Wendelin Wiedeking once said that anyone who calls Porsche drivers a climate killer is simply looking for the prominent enemy image. And he added that nobody had to apologize for driving a Porsche. Wiedeking’s word is still valid today.
And the good thing about it: Climate protection can be a lot of fun.
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