Which Cayenne Options?

[Mike Butler]

Baby Butler 1 is en route and I'm thinking about a 'sensible' second car which can house all of the paraphernalia which seems to accompany babies. Took a Cayenne S for a test drive yesterday and now thinking of options. Narrowed down to the following:

Tip
Metallic paint
PCM incl telephone module
Bose
19" wheels
Bi-Xenon
Heated Seats
Park Assist
Cruise control (why this is an option I really don't know)

The dash does look a little plastic so was also thinking about the full leather option.

I have to say the S was quick but didn't feel quick (was doing 100 but felt like 60). Does the non-S feel noticably slower? You can pick up loaded 04 models privately for under £28K these days. When the facelift comes out in December with the rumoured power increase on the 3.2 V6 I expect this to be closer to £24K for the same car.

Any thoughts welcome!

 

[pwebb]

Mike
Had similar thoughts over the weekend (not about babies you understand) but called in to the dealer and specced a new S for next March/April when the facelift is due.

Having had an S for the past three years have come up with the following:
Tiptronic (an option, apparantly, not that anyone ever orders the manual S)
Basalt Black metallic
Black leather
Air suspension
PASM with phone
Bose
Multifunction steering wheel
Park assist
Cruise
19" wheels with centre crests
might go for sports seats (anyone tried/have them?)
and sunroof

would say the final item is well worth having, particularly if you have a dark interior as it's a glass panel.

Peter

 

[pwebb]

oops just reread my posting, PCM with phone, doh!

 

[gdavison]

I am a Lowley V6 Cayenne owner [].. Full Leather Worth it IMO), Tiptronic, Park Assist (mandatory IMO), B-Xenon Headlamp, Sports Seats, Light Comfort pack, Cruise Control, heated seats AND heated Steering wheel , Auto Air Conditioning, PCM and Sat Nav, Sport Aluminum pack, BOSE, Air Suspension, 19 inch Cayenne wheels with colored crests (of course).

In the Lakes for a weeks vacation (again) and its Cayenne country [][] .. we cruised up here from Berkshire at 70 mph (of course) doing 23 mpg on std unleaded.. its a tad rainy here at the mo .. last night after a 14 mile walk on which we got drenched we sat in comfortable heated seats in 21C air conditioned comfort , driving back to the Hotel over Hardknott Pass with The Prodigy wound up on the Bose, in torrential rain .. road was under 2 - 3 inches of running water in places , Cayenne took it like a drive down the mall on a sunny sunday afternoon ... . Dont right the V6 off .. of course we do have a Boxster S in the garage if we do want a blast ...

 

[Mike Butler]

I may have to take the V6 out to see the difference. I'll still have the 996C4S so speed isn't really a big driver.....

 

[gdavison]

Difference will be noticible, all depends on what your after in your Cayenne .. keeping the 996C4S will pair nicely with any Cayenne [] .. Whilst my V6 was in for Oil service last week, I drove a Cayenne Turbo S to "fill in the hour" LMAO thats a silly fast car ... []

 

[Angel1403]

Hi,

I have a 2003 S. Having had a Cayenne as a loan car a few times I would say there is a huge difference between them.

If I had test drove the Cayenne I would not have purchased it. The "S" has the surge that makes it feel like a Porsche.

Cheers

Allan

 

[gdavison]

And the Turbo is faster and the Turbo S is faster still.... []

IMVHO ... All depends on what your after in a car ... Otherwise all 911 drivers would just buy the Turbo...All Boxster drivers would get the 3.4 and all Caymen drivers would get the Boxster ... LOL

 

[Monty2]

Had to think about this one as inherited the fairly high spec buying my Cayenne S at six months old. Top extras:-
1. Full leather interior - reason the leather is slightly better quality and it makes the interior a nice place to be, it always smells of new car leather interior (even after having my fishing gear in the back).
2. Xenons - yup I know it upsets all other drivers but does turn night into day and living in the sticks having the lights look around bends is great.
3. Aluminium trim - with the full leather really sets it off.
4. Tip - click it down twice on the steering wheel and you fly past a line of traffic and auto adapts to how you feel like driving on the day BIG plus in park you don't have to use the awful US style hand/footbrake (I hope they nick the VW audi A6 button idea soon for the Cayenne)
4a Multifunction steering wheel - its a long way to reach for the volume button.
5. Bose - Better than the Harmon Kardom in the Range Rover.
6. PCM - I haven't seen a Cayenne without this added I dont think the Nav system is very good though they should ask the boys over the road at audi if they can fit the MMI Nav. But a must have is the phone kit which you just slot your sim card into the PCM panel.
7. 19" wheels good mix of comfort and road holding (and do not track like 20"s) although the harshness of 20" wheels would be tempered if you had air suspension which I do not.
8. G3 stainless insulated mug that fits in console slot - great doesn't spill my wild bean cafe on the leather and stays warm for ever
9. VW Touareg cigarette lighter torch - the business under a tenner at VW dealers fits into ashtray in front dash unlike Porsche specific torch at £17

Wish mine had been fitted with - Ski hatch FOC i think when ordering, and extra tint on the windows as mine had the pull up screens for some reason.

A thought - Parking sensors faced with a very polished Touareg bumper failed to relay the non existant gap, although (both) bumpers returned to starting point and scratch polished out phew.

I think when I added up the extras it came to 10 grand and I know I wouldn't of spent that much if I had ordered from new.

Good performance tip in the dry turn off the PSM it becomes a different animal, wouldn't recommend it in the wet though

Good Luck whatever spec it still trounces the opposition.

Paul