2016 Porsche Cayenne GTS - Car and Driver (blog)
Warned that our first drive of the 2016 Porsche Cayenne GTS would take place in extreme cold-weather conditions in northern Sweden, we’d packed the same heavy, clunky, thermal-lined work boots that serve so well for walking a dog on bitter winter... Turns out most of the day would be spent at Skellefteå Drive Center, a dedicated facility at a former airbase where we exercised the GTS by ice-dancing through a slalom, drifting on a skidpad, and challenging our car-control skills on a handling... Besides, the Cayenne GTS rewards a heavy right foot. The GTS, a Turbo-look version of Porsche’s best-selling model—which slots between the S and the Turbo—has lost two cylinders but gains 20 horsepower in the transition from its former naturally aspirated V-8 powerplant to the new twin-turbo six. This is the same blown 3. 6-liter V-6 that powers the revamped Cayenne S , but here it’s tuned to deliver 440 horsepower and 443 lb-ft of torque rather than 420 and 406. It’s strong enough to push two-and-a-half tons of SUV to 60 mph in less than... ) The new GTS is also said to lap the Nürburgring in 8 minutes, 13 seconds, just 14 ticks longer than Porsche claims for the mighty, 570-hp Cayenne Turbo S. Balance and Poise Demonstrations of power weren’t in the cards given the low-traction... Source: www.caranddriver.com
