2011 Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid: First Drive Review - Green Car Reports
We didn't, until a recent weekend, but our Porsche had one. Instead, we were driving the highest-volume Porsche, a hulking sport-utility vehicle that pairs performance with SUV virtues like towing and high ground clearance. In fact, we were driving the first hybrid-electric vehicle Porsche has built and sold. At least, the first one since around 1900, when young engineer Ferdinand Porsche designed the "Semper Vivus" series hybrid (recently recreated by Porsche ) that led to a small run of Lohner-Porsche production hybrids a century ago. For a fast, heavy five-seat sport utility, the 2011 Cayenne hybrid has decent EPA ratings: 20 mpg city, 24 mpg highway, and a combined rating of 21 mpg. That's an improvement on the 16 city, 23 highway, 19 combined that the base Cayenne with a 3. 6-ilter V-6 and the eight-speed Tiptronic gets, and considerably better than the 15 city, 22 highway, and 17 combined delivered by the fire-breathing... Over a 619-mile trip that covered both Manhattan streets and the lovely two-lane roads of upstate New York--climbing numerous hills in the center of the state and then coasting right back down again--our Porsche hybrid gave us a startling 27. 7... Source: www.greencarreports.com
