Wot Porsche?

[Mactech]

I've had a number of cars through my hands over the last few weeks, but none of them Mercedes
This week I was in a Porsche. It gave the figures below. So what was it???

 

[A210AMG]

Caymane Diesal (the jeep like your pic) or the pararama again diesal.

Probably both spelt wrong?

 

[Mactech]

Well... you are right about your spelling and right again that it was indeed a 'wood burner'...

 

[C240Sport97]

Panamera or Cayenne .. I suspect it's the Panamera

 

[A210AMG]

• • 184 kW (250 hp) at 3,800 rpm
  • 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in 6.8 s
  • Top speed: 242 km/h (150 mph)
  • Combined: 6.5 l/100 km (43.5 mpg)*

 

[wemorgan]

Mactech - I like your posts. You consistently make a mockery of the OEM's claimed fuel consumption figures.............


..........they're clearly far too easy to obtain.

47mpg in rush hour traffic, that'll be the Radio 2 effect.

Keep up the good work.

 

[Oli]

Definatly not a Cayenne Turbo!!.

 

[st4]

Panamera diesel would do that. VAG 3.0TDi V6 in there driving through a ZF automatic. However all us not green on Audi forums, that V6 throws wobblers like the merc one and more prematurely.

 

[Biglips]

What was it like to drive? They are very ugly but I am guessing very capable cars

 

[st4]

What was it like to drive? They are very ugly but I am guessing very capable cars

They're fecking huge. I know it's a luxury car but it's sold as a sporting product. It should be smaller IMHO

 

[Biglips]

They're fecking huge. I know it's a luxury car but it's sold as a sporting product. It should be smaller IMHO

I guess they are positioning it as a GT so will be targeting maserati gransport/ Aston DB9 or rapide / 12 cylinder ferrari market all of which are sizeable cars too. Not that any of those come in diesel format (yet)

 

[Mactech]

Well it was actually a Diesel Cayenne
It did rather better than the makers claim and about 10mpg better than I would get in my comparable ML320CDI.
Last year I took a new X3 BMW 2 litre 4 cyl to France and it struggled to get 40mpg, well below the makers claim of 50!
I didn't drive any differently, so I'm very impressed with the Porsche given I get 23mpg (at best) in a car based around a 4.8 Turbo Cayenne.....
Some cars have good test results, some have good results in the real world

 

[Endz]

I'm still not sure one way or the other on the Panny. Not a fan of the Cayenne at all but that might be due to having to deliver to the stay at home blonde owners in Essex for a few years. Clueless, hot, clueless, sexy, clueless. I say clueless ignoring the fact that they all seemed to have landed ugly rich men, so they got one bit right. Just not the car choice

 

[st4]

How does the car fare brim to brim. Basic physics, that average speed (Unless there was a lot of downhill sections of your run) defies logic as its quite a wide tall car so I'm very surprised its given near diesel C class economy.

 

[Mactech]

How does the car fare brim to brim. Basic physics, that average speed (Unless there was a lot of downhill sections of your run) defies logic as its quite a wide tall car so I'm very surprised its given near diesel C class economy.

Well Coventry to London must be downhill, 'cos it's south...
Didn't get to do a brim to brim, but filled a half empty 100L tank with 50 litres so it's going to be somewhere close.
I just think Porsche have done a really good job with all the elements that make up economy....despite starting with an SUV.
The X3 BMW seemed laboured with its 4 pot engine despite the figures which they get on the official test rig. Those figures have no aerodynamic loads.
We have air in the real world!

 

[flango]

Panamera diesel would do that. VAG 3.0TDi V6 in there driving through a ZF automatic. However all us not green on Audi forums, that V6 throws wobblers like the merc one and more prematurely.

Yep engine not good on reliability, too stressed IMHO and rough as an Aberdeen hooker Although don't know if there were any tweaks before they put it in the Porker ???