So Quick, It Makes You Sick! | 2026 Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric | Detailed Review

When Porsche first introduced the Cayenne to the world nearly 25 years ago, the initial reaction was a lot of hate from traditional Porsche purists, because this was the company's very first sport utility vehicle into the marketplace. And despite the initial hate, this vehicle became one of Porsche's top-selling models, which essentially gave the company more money to create even better sports cars for those traditional buyers. While the current generation Cayenne has been around for a few years, it's still an excellent choice. For 2026, Porsche is ready to reveal an all-new fourth generation. This is a comprehensive redesign. This vehicle is built on their brand new PPE architecture, which means the Cayenne is now fully electric. And today, we're here in Aspen, Colorado, because we're getting a chance to drive the extra spicy version known as the Cayenne Turbo. And the big question I want answered, has Porsche managed to capture some of that essence within the new Cayenne Electric? Stay tuned to find out. So before you guys come out with your angry pitchforks because the new Cayenne is fully electric, I want to point out that the third generation, the current Cayenne, which is the internal combustion-powered model, will continue to soldier on. Porsche hasn't confirmed whether a new version is coming, but I suspect they are probably working on that. But this video is going to focus primarily on the new Cayenne Electric, which is technically built off of an all-new architecture. Now, you probably are noticing the gorgeous backdrop behind me, and that's because we are here in Aspen, Colorado, at 12,000 feet above sea level. We're here at the Continental Divide Independence Pass. There's probably going to be a lot of people around, but if you notice I'm a little bit winded, it's because I'm literally struggling to get some air up here at 12,000 feet. Because this is the fully electric model, the first thing I want to talk about is the front trunk storage space, because it's built off of their PPE architecture. So thankfully, it does have a front trunk storage space. It actually measures a pretty usable 3.2 cubic feet. You can see it's a much deeper front trunk storage area. You can easily fit a backpack, a duffel bag in here, which is nice. Obviously, you can't use it as a cooler. There's also a light in there, and there's an escape button in case you happen to get trapped in this if you're small enough to get trapped in here. But since we're underneath here, let's go ahead and talk about the powertrain specs, because that's really the big story with the Kayak Electric, especially this extra spicy turbo version, because what you're looking at here is the most powerful production SUV currently on sale here in America. I'm mentioning that because this turbo model, and I know the turbo badge will probably anger some of you traditional purists because there's no turbo here, means that you have dual electric motors, and you have a total of 1,139 horsepower and 1,106 pound-feet of torque. Now, those power figures are only achieved when you have this vehicle in its launch control function. Without using the launch control, it's going to give you around 844 horsepower all the time. There's a push-to-pass button where you can basically push a button for 10 seconds. It'll add an extra 174 horsepower. This essentially allows this vehicle to go from 0 to 60 in 2.4 seconds while hitting a top speed of 162 miles an hour. This is definitely the quickest production Cayenne that Porsche has ever done, and it's also among the quickest production SUVs you're going to find currently on the market today. Now, all of them use a 113 kilowatt-hour battery pack, and Porsche says the total range is good for up to 339 miles. That's for a base Cayenne with the range 20-inch wheels. This model, however, drops that to around 298 miles, which is still very impressive. All that power goes to all four wheels via a one-speed reduction gear transmission, so it doesn't have the two-speed automatic that the Taycan has, which is kind of interesting, but Porsche says that they've learned some stuff from their Formula E technology to essentially remove that extra gear where they don't necessarily need it. Towing capacity still maxes out at around 7,716 pounds, and as this car sits, the battery pack alone weighs like 1,300 pounds. This model is the heaviest, weighing in at just under 5,900 pounds, so it's about 1,000 pounds heavier versus an equivalent gas-powered Cayenne, but still, nearly 1,200 horsepower means this thing is going to be pretty fast. Now, let's go ahead and close up the hood here. This particular color that we're showing you is called Algarve Blue. It's actually a free color. It's a metallic color. It's a very, very dark blue. In fact, you really have to look at this from when the sun directly hits it, but when it does, you can see some of that dark sapphire-ish blue with the metallic fleck. The front styling of the new Cayenne definitely is very Porsche. In fact, I really appreciate how Porsche didn't go with the trendy divorced headlight look like they do on the Macan EV. You can see you have that traditional Porsche four-point LEDs. My particular test car here has the blacked-out LEDs, where you have the projector LED low and high beams. These are the matrix design full LED headlights, so they also, of course, come with automatic high beams. They also are adaptive. You have some functional openings down here, and because this is electric, there's obviously no actual opening here, but down here, you're going to actually find some active cooling ducts. These are basically active grille shutters, where they will close up to basically allow more air to pass through or not to pass through. My particular test car also has a more aggressive front splitter with the gloss black. You have well-integrated parking sensors, a full 360 camera, which is technically part of a technology package, or not a tech package, it's an a la carte option if you want the full 360 camera, and I also noticed Porsche has a newer logo here, where it has more of a monochromatic look, and I have to say, I do miss the kind of yellow accents, but it definitely gives it a more modern design, but in general, with the kind of sculpted hood, these really nice-looking headlights, the Cayenne Electric definitely has a really nice design to it. In fact, I think that this is a nice evolution of the current generation Cayenne, which generally has aged extremely well. Now, moving around to the side profile, I mentioned earlier this is built on their new PPE architecture, which means dimensionally, this is a little bit bigger than the regular Cayenne, the gas-powered model. It has a 119-inch wheelbase, which is around 5 inches longer. Its overall length is 196.3. Now, I also want to point out, there is a coupe version of this, which basically lowers the roof height by about an inch. It's a smidge, like 0.2 inches longer, but this vehicle definitely looks like it has a more aerodynamic design. In fact, the coefficient of drag of this model, the square back, is 0.25. The coupe version is 0.23. It actually matches that of the Taycan, which is very impressive because this is an SUV. Now, looking at the wheels, these are the upgraded 22-inch Sport Techno wheels in a turbonite finish. These wheels have lots of spokes on them. Porsche offers a choice between either a 20 going up to a 22. I kind of admire their restraint not going to a 23-inch alloy. The brakes are massive. These are 16.5-inch rotors at the front, 14.5-inch rotors at the back. So, these are some of the biggest brakes you can get. It's clamped down by a four-piston caliper at the rear, a 10-piston caliper at the front. You can also option in carbon ceramic brakes for 10 grand if you guys want that. My particular test car has the black painted Porsche caliper. You can also get it in yellow if you go for the carbon ceramics. The standard color is red. I actually think I prefer the red. Tires are massive, 285 by 40 R22s at the front, 315 wides at the back. Now, every Cayenne electric will come with their dual-chamber adaptive air suspension. My particular tester here has the active Porsche ride control. So, that active Porsche ride control essentially introduces an interlinked hydraulic suspension where it actually eliminates the roll bars, the anti-roll bars, and it basically allows this vehicle to corner and there's no body lean whatsoever. It does some amazing things for a vehicle that weighs 6,000 pounds in terms of the handling dynamics. That's always really cool. The wheel arch trim here you can see is in gloss black. That's not exclusive to the turbo, but I don't believe Porsche is going to offer it in a full paint finish, which I think it looks really tasteful with this dark blue color. There's a subtle little electric badge there to let everybody know this is the electric model. You can delete that or change it into different colors if you'd like. There's also a subtle little turbo badge there, which honestly feels like a sticker. I would probably just remove that. Although, again, the black accents with the dark blue looks really nice. This mirror you can see, power folding, full 360 camera, obviously. You can option in a different finish for the mirrors and you can do it in black and carbon fiber. You can also paint these black areas here into a body-colored finish. There's also more turbinite accents here along the window trim. These are the upgraded turbinite colored roof rails, which have a low profile design to them. They're more aerodynamic, obviously. And then this model here comes with the panoramic sunroof. It does open up to vent air and for an extra $3,400, I believe, you can also get it with their variable light control. That's the first time Porsche is offering that digital curtain feature with an opening panoramic glass roof. So I really appreciate that. Now over here, you're going to find a door. Now this is, when you push that, it activates or it opens up the charge port door. On the passenger side, you're going to find the J1772 plug. Now this is only for AC charging. So if you need to plug in the vehicle at night to top it off on a level one or level two, it has up to a 19.2 kilowatt onboard charger. Like I said earlier, with its 113 kilowatt hour battery pack, about 180 is usable. This model will go around 100 or 298 miles of range on a full tank. This vehicle does run on the 800 volt architecture. So on the other side, there's actually a Tesla style NACS plug. That's where you do some DC fast charging. If you can find a 350 kilowatt or 400 kilowatt charger, this will actually go from 10 to 80% in less than 16 minutes. That's among the quickest charging vehicles you're going to find. And it really kind of makes this car super road trip ready. So kind of keep that in mind. Porsche has always been about super quick EVs and super quick charging. Now coming over to the rear, before we start talking about the design, you're probably going to notice a massive like air fin or at least intake duct over here. These are actually for the exclusive pop out aero blades that are only offered on the turbo trim at speeds about 40 miles an hour. These actually pop out to help with aerodynamics, to supposedly increase the range by as much as 15%. So that's really cool technology. Of course, leave it to Porsche to over engineer something like an air or at least an air curtain or whatever, an air flap. But again, it's kind of a cool little party trick. The spoiler back here also has a button on the dash where you can literally push that button and makes this pop out at the push of a button. It also will pop out above at higher speeds, kind of incognito with the active aero flaps. The rear design you can see kind of looks a little bit more like a wagon in my eyes. In fact, I really love the design element here because it really reminds you a lot of other Porsche models. You can see this Porsche like light bar back here has the illuminated Porsche logo. You can change this out to be either blacked out. You can also add like a glacier blue accent. The taillights are full LED. You can see not a traditional full LED light bar, but I really like the kind of three-dimensional look. I also kind of wish that it had almost like a sequential turn signal design, but it certainly is handsome. Actually, from certain angles, this car can look a little bit like a wagon. So I really like how Porsche, you know, did with the styling over here. The rear wiper kind of just sits here at the base of the glass. I would have preferred if they tucked it underneath the rear spoiler here, but your third brake light obviously is going to be there. There's an annoying turbo badge here to piss off traditional purists, but you can kind of delete that. But this is how you let people know this is the, you know, most powerful production Porsche and SUV you can buy. And then the rear diffuser and the bumper is more aggressive. This is exclusive to the turbo model. Lots of, I guess, actual flaps here and sculpted areas to aid with the aerodynamics and give this car, again, a much more aggressive design. And then in terms of the cargo area, a power liftgate is going to be included, obviously, hands-free as well on this particular model. And this vehicle offers a pretty good amount of cargo space. In fact, the square back that I'm showing you here offers around 27.9 cubic feet of storage space. Now, I want to point out the turbo, because of the Bose audio system, reduces that to around 26 cubic feet of storage space, which is pretty decent. If you look underneath here, you're going to find a somewhat small underfloor storage area. There's basically enough space here where you can actually hide the cargo cover in here, which is kind of nice. If I want, if you want, you can push this button here that will fold down the second row seats. Obviously, there's no third row in this model. That expands the cargo to just under 56 cubic feet of storage space. 56 cubic feet of storage space is a little bit less versus the 60 that you get in the gas-powered square back version of the Cayenne. But also keep in mind, if you guys are looking at the coupe version of this car, you're going to lose roughly around eight to nine cubic feet of storage space. That has around 19 cubic feet of storage space and around 47. So obviously it's going to have less, but Porsche surprisingly tells us that the take rate between the coupe and the square back is roughly a 60-40 mix. So don't be surprised to be seeing one of the coupe versions of this at your local, I guess, Porsche dealership or your local area. Now, moving on to the interior of the all new 2026 Porsche Cayenne Electric. Now, first of all, the exterior is instantly recognizable as a Porsche. And if you guys are used to a lot of current Porsche products, you're going to notice this interior is pretty familiar. In fact, a lot of the layout for the design, the dash, the infotainment system is pretty much their latest. Although that screen there with the curve, we'll get to that in just a second, is the first Porsche to include that. This particular model that we're showing you has a really lovely color combination with that Algarve dark blue. We have a combination here of a kind of a black and a light gray leather interior. These seats or this interior color is an extra $460. These are the 18-way power adjustable seats. They are heated and ventilated, which the ventilated function is actually optional. It's part of a premium package or it's an a la carte option for like an extra $600. Porsche does offer a massaging seat, but this particular model is missing that. And for the price of that, it really should be included with the premium package, which I find to be a little irritating. This model, again, has the premium package, which is an extra five grand. The Porsche crest on the headrests are actually an extra $400 or $700 if you want it on both. You can also illuminate the turbo badge there for an extra $300. Remember, it's a Porsche. They're going to nickel and dime you for everything. Now, in terms of the door panel materials, this is an expensive car. It has really nice materials here, real leather with stitching. On the upper portion here, there is interchangeable ambient lighting, which there's actually different moods you can choose, which also interact with you and show you different warnings. The door handle is this interesting little electronic release here, but at the same time, it feels pretty substantial. It would have looked better if this was actually an aluminum. You do have some dark copper accents in here. The window controls are one touch up down, and they have that satisfying clicky feel, and they have that dark copper sheen there, which makes it look nice. My particular test car has the Bose premium sound system, which is included with the turbo models. For an extra $6,500, you can get the Burmester sound system. Down here, it's covered in leather and more soft touch material. So in general, the interior definitely makes a great first impression. There's carbon fiber on the door panels in my test car, but you can also get aluminum. You can also get a darker gray wood trim. The carbon fiber kind of suits the more like sportier theme of the turbo, when you get inside the vehicle. I forgot to mention earlier, this model has seven and a half inches of ground clearance. You can jack it up to nine and a half when you have it in its lift suspension. As I shut the door, the door has a pretty solid sounding thunk. Remember, this is built on the PPE architecture. It does have, however, a soft close feature, which Porsche says the soft close is standard on even the base version of the Cayenne. So it's nice I at least gave that to you as a standard. If you're looking for automatic opening and closing doors, Porsche doesn't do that. That's where you probably want to go by the Audi Q9 and SQ9. But once we're in here, you can see this interior definitely feels familiar, but at the same time, it's not super overwhelming. Although this model that we're showing you has the optional passenger display. In fact, there are three screens in the dashboard here. So the driver's instrument panel here has a 14.3 inch display, which is also customizable. You can put your maps in here. You can literally adjust the way that looks by just using the scrolly wheel on the steering column. I actually really liked the traditional five dials. You have an augmented reality head up display that my test car has that also shows really cool three-dimensional looks when you have the GPS up, where it'll give you actual directions and point in the direction you need to go. The center screen, surprisingly, is only 12.3 inches. And this is their new flow display here. So you can see it's a curved OLED display. It has their latest software. It's based off of Android Automotive. We have access to a Play Store. You can basically download your favorite apps, play video games. And then the passenger display there, which is optional, it's part of a premium package or a technology package. That's 14.9 inches. So this display I find to be a little bit more of a gimmick, but it's kind of nice if you guys want to play video games. You can also put the GPS up here on there. And you can also put Waze, for example, on this display. You can see my phone is connected via the wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. That is the largest that you can get the CarPlay to look, which I find to be a little bit small. It would be nice if Porsche would have made it so you can kind of expand this to take up the entire screen, but I guess they can't work with the CarPlay being curved. But in general, while there is a little bit of a learning curve here, there's where I can pull up the GPS there. We're out here in the middle of nowhere in Aspen, Colorado, so it's having trouble picking up a signal. I actually haven't had cell phone service for the past two hours. If you push that button here, it's going to bring up all your usual sources. You can see these are the themes. You're going to notice the back color of the actual instrument panel display is purple, or it's like pink. If I go to the themes here, I can change that. I can go to a green color. I can go to a grayish, bluish color. There's also a monochromatic look and a darker finish here. It's nice how Porsche gives you these preset themes. You can also go into here and go into your mood modes. This is where it basically allows you to customize the ambient lighting, the music. It changes the climate control function. There's six different styles here. This is definitely a new feature for Porsche, and it's going in theme with the rest of the competitive set where they offer these different little spa features where you can turn the car into a mood area. Going back over here, this is basically the car icon where you can adjust several different things. The Porsche sports sound you can adjust from here, which is kind of nice. You can also view your charging, which by the way, this vehicle is the first Porsche model or the first model in general that it's going to offer inductive charging. We actually had a chance to show you guys that in the studio back in November in LA when Porsche first revealed this. You can basically buy a charging pad, and you also have to make sure this car is prepped for it where you can literally install it into your home on the ground in your garage, drive over it, and you can wirelessly charge this vehicle up to 11 kilowatts. On the screen here, it'll actually tell you where you need to line it up, so it makes it pretty easy. It's a really cool feature, and Porsche says they don't have final pricing of it yet, but it'll be available either at the end of this year or early next year. They're estimating around $10,000 to basically have that buy the whole kit basically, and also you have to have it installed, although they said installation should be a snap because it just lays on the ground and you have to kind of cover up the wires and whatnot. But in general, it's a cool feature where we now have inductive wireless charging on your actual vehicle because obviously we're used to on our phones. Now, even though everything here is kind of in the screen, which I don't particularly love, the climate control function is now located in the screen. So if you want to adjust the air vents, they are located here in the screen where you can literally adjust where you want the flow to go. You can also change how intense you want it to be. You can also close the vents from here. This vehicle does have like a quad zone climate control. It has heated and cooled seats, which are located here in the screen, which again, don't particularly love that, but it certainly gets the job done. And you can also turn the heat and the cooling function on at the same time. You can see more of those dark copper controls are located here. You also have your volume control over here. And then I forgot to mention, here's the key fob for the vehicle. This is the traditional Porsche key, which looks like a car, which is really nice. The key is actually interlinked to your personalized settings. You have your typical buttons here where you can open up the front, open and unlock and unlock it, open up the tailgate, and then there's your panic function is back here. If you guys want to also use your phone as a key, Porsche's digital key is going to be included so you can easily use your smartphone as a key. The center console area you can see has really nice materials. You have real leather here, leather covering the upper portion. That's part of the sport chrono package where that literally shows your elevation, your heading, it's a compass built in. You can also, I believe, change the color of that and change the actual look. Your drive mode selector is located here. It's this little, I guess, razor blade kind of weird thing. If I push it up, it goes into reverse. There's your full 360 camera. You can also give you several different multiple views. Porsche's quality and resolution is pretty much on par with a lot of its competitors. I wish that it took up more of the screen. It's actually kind of annoying how the passenger gets the biggest display, but I have to say, this is definitely an improvement over other Porsche models. This vehicle also has an automatic parallel park feature. Obviously, if you want to put in a drive, you just push down. That goes into drive, push the P button there. That's going to put you into park, obviously. Down here, you can see I mentioned earlier more leather stitching, which is really nice. There's also a little bit of open storage here. This center console you can see actually slides back, which I actually find to be a little strange how there's no actual storage there, but if I slide it back, that reveals a pretty generous storage area with your cup holders. You can actually pull this out if you need to clean it out. Your wireless phone charging pad is down in here. You can see it's actually a MagSafe G2 wireless charger, but only one. But when I hook my phone up in there, you can see it wirelessly charges pretty quickly, which is nice. You've got your two USB-C charging ports there. This is kind of like a little rest pad. If you want to, you know, while you're kind of interacting with the screen, you can rest your palm here, which is kind of nice because Porsche was, again, sweating the details. But in general, this interior definitely has a little bit of a learning curve, which takes a little bit of time, but once you kind of get used to it, it's relatively quick, snappy. The software is fantastic. The Bose audio sounds good. I don't love how the dash fence have moved into the screen over there, but there are a couple of shortcut buttons here. For example, if you want to turn off your stability control there, you can also adjust your air suspension and your drive mode selectors here. So if I want to switch them out here, I can actually go into a Sport Plus. You can go to a normal, a lift mode, which is kind of like an off-road setting. You have your electric sports down there, and then you can also turn on and off the recuperation. Now, Porsche says that they didn't mention one pedal drive, but you can do up to 600 kilowatts of max regen braking, which is pretty impressive. That's going to help to recharge the battery, obviously. And then your driver assistance adjustments are all going to be located here. The steering wheel has a power telescoping adjustment, which there's a little, I guess, toggle here. We can adjust that. The heated steering wheel control is this little button back here, which is kind of hidden. Porsche's always kind of done that. The wheel itself, really nice. This is the GT Sport steering wheel. You have these kind of exposed screw heads. You have like actual physical clicky buttons here, which is nice. Your adaptive cruise control is here. This does offer their feature of their, their version of a hands-free driving assist. There's also like a little, almost like a flap or not a flap, a pass through here that kind of makes the instrument panel look even cooler. That kind of goes with the augmented reality head up display. And then above me here, you can see you have an auto dimming rear view mirror, which is frameless, but Porsche sadly does not offer an auto or a digital camera rear view mirror. You have your LED map lighting in here. My test car has the panoramic sunroof, which you can see here does open up tilts. It opens up to vent air, has a built-in wind deflector and a retractable shade, but it is missing the digital light function. So that digital curtain, the variable light control is an extra $3,600 on top of the panel sunroof. So for me personally, I found that to be a gimmick. I wouldn't pay the extra $3,600, but if you like that feature, you can certainly get that obviously as part of an a la carte option. The glove compartment you can see is damped and lined with felt. It offers a little bit extra space, including a gluten-free bagel in there as well. But in general, this interior is pretty much typical Porsche. Some of the technology in here is a little gimmicky. The flow display, I'm not entirely sure I love, but let me know in the comment section below what you guys think. But I appreciate how the build quality still feels really nice. You have these nice tactile controls in combination with the touch controls. The seats are also comfortable and supportive. I just think that Porsche should make a couple of other features as standard. For example, the massaging seats. My test car is missing that. And for the price point, it really should have that considering the positioning in Porsche's lineup here for the Cayenne. Now moving into the backseat of the all new 2026 Cayenne Electric. If you guys are looking for a backseat that can hold adults, the Cayenne's always been a good choice there. Now, I don't have final legroom figures just yet. If I had to estimate, this looks somewhere like around the 38 to 39 inches of legroom. It's obviously got way more space versus the last Macan that I tested. And that's the reason why, again, people really want to choose the Cayenne over the Macan because you just get adult-friendly backseat. But remember, there's no third row offered. I'm surprised Porsche actually doesn't have a three-row SUV. Now, this particular model with the power fold-down seats means you also have these switches here where you can actually power recline the seats to give you a little bit more comfort. You can also electrically move the seats forward and back. If I push the reclined seat forward and hold it for a second, it'll actually power recline the seat down. It takes a little bit too long. This is kind of where I just prefer a manual function where I could just manually fold it. But it's nice how you kind of have that, you know, upscale premium feature here for just the backseat passenger. Now, getting back here, you can see this is basically my driving position. As I shut the door, the door still has that solid-sounding thunk, including the soft-close feature. And in terms of the rest of the backseat area, there's lots of nice materials back here. First of all, I'm seeing here an actual vent for the B-pillar, in addition to the vents down here. Down here, you're also going to find controls for your quad-zone climate control function. So you have the same kind of dark copper accents here. And here, I appreciate how Porsche goes with a traditional manual-style vent back here. I wish they had done the same for the front area. But you also have in that dark copper tint, you also have heated and cooled second-row seats. This is an extra option. The heated and cooled second-row seats are part of an a la carte feature here where you can literally option just heated and cooled front or heated and cooled second row. You also have two USB-C charging ports here. And the quad-zone climate control is also, again, an optional feature. You have two storage cubbies here. And this door panel material, you can see has some nice leather material, more of that carbon fiber. The beep that you're hearing is because the car is literally seeing cars drive by the road where we're filming here. This is nice and padded down here. The window controls, like I said earlier, one touch up-down. The windows are obviously tinted back here. You also have that nice dark copper finish. And then my test car for an extra $700 has the power retractable peasant blockers. So this honestly should be standard, but it's nice to see that feature over here. You also can see there's the race text for the headliner and for some of the portions of the B-pillar. That's an extra $2,000 if you guys want the race text. And then you can also option in complete leather covering the backs of these seat backs here, which I don't think my test car has it, even though it looks like it does. But in general, so many different customization options. That's kind of typical Porsche. You also are going to find pretty easy access to your child seat anchors over here, which is nice. However, there's no center anchor. If you guys want to put a middle child seat there, you can see the Porsche crest here is optional again. But I can fold this down, give you two armrests or give you an armrest or two cup holders, which is nice. I can easily cross my legs and get comfortable back here. And in terms of the headroom space at five foot seven, I have like a solid three inches of additional clearance. So it's certainly not bad. The sunroof takes up a little bit more space. The Alcantara definitely feels nice. But in general, if you plan to use this as like, you know, a car where you're going to put adults back here all the time or a car seat, this is the whole reason why you would make the upgrade from the Macan to the larger Cayenne. So here we are at 12,000 feet above sea level in the new Porsche Cayenne Turbo. Now we're here on these beautiful back roads of, or mountain roads here in Aspen, Colorado. The first thing I want to test out is the zero to 60 time. To get the best time, you put it into sport plus, you brake torque it. And it says launch control. Oh, Jesus. All right. So Rob is next to me, as you guys probably heard. We got zero to 60 Rob. Yes. 2.7. 2.3 seconds. And here. Good. Sorry, Rob. We're going to try this one more time. This time, I'm not going to use the launch control though. We're just going to floor it and see what we can get here. Still fast. All right. So on that run, without using the launch control, Rob, we got 2.7 seconds. 2.69 seconds. So 2.4. So yes, 2.3 seconds. And we're at 12,000 feet, which it's an electric vehicle, so you don't have to worry about, you know, elevation or the lack of oxygen. Yes, you, I have to physically, Rob has to physically worry about it, but we don't have to worry about the elevation because there's no internal combustion engine. In fact, I feel like these cars are probably faster because there's less air resistance. So in theory, you should be able to actually like go faster because there's less resistance slowing the vehicle down. Now, this model that we're driving also has Porsche's active ride control suspension. That basically means it's $8,000 extra almost. It replaces the anti-roll bars, the sway bars with an interlinked hydraulic suspension setup. It still has its adaptive air suspension, but at the same time, what I'm noticing when you're not stuck behind a slow Subaru driver is this vehicle, it's the first SUV from Porsche that has that feature. And there's literally no body lean in this car. When I'm going around some corners really quickly and just pushing this car, there is no body lean, which is kind of weird to feel in an SUV. And that's kind of the game changer. It really reminds you that Porsche is all about driving. They're an enthusiast brand. And that character is brought down into even their largest SUV, which is pretty cool. This vehicle also comes, of course, with Porsche's latest, in terms of their electric motor technology. It borrows a lot from Formula E. It has regen braking, also offers up to like 600 kilowatts of max regen braking, which is incredible with just recuperating the energy that you might lose, especially going up a mountain. Sorry, Rob, we're going to do one more run here because I may as well just give that Subaru some chance, some opportunity to get a little bit more further along here. That was really crazy though. This car definitely is one of the quickest accelerating vehicles that I've ever driven. It may have been the quickest one I've actually ever been in last night. Okay, well, it's really easy to do. Just brake, torque it, launch control activated. 2.29 seconds there. So very consistent performance, that's for sure. I still don't mind the electric sports sound, which you can turn off. It sounds good. It actually does. It adds some character into the car. It just adds a little drama because... A little? A little. Well, the acceleration is just drama enough. This car also does have their rear wheel steering, which can turn the rear wheels up to five degrees. Although we didn't really notice it actually used working that much when we were moving the car around. Although at super low speeds, I'm assuming probably at higher speeds, it's going to be able to do that a little bit more. Literally, we've caught up to the Subaru again. Like it's crazy how slow people go down this road. But in general, even though this car has 22 inch alloy wheels, the ride quality is really good. It kind of goes over the bumps, floats over the bumps. It has no body lean. It's a really quiet car as well. When you don't actually use the active sports sound on whatever, it doesn't have much in terms of road noise, actually. This is a performance Pirelli summer tire that the vehicle's on. Super sticky, has plenty of grip. What I don't love is the steering is a little bit too numb, a little too light on feedback. It's a little... I want it to be a little heavier as well. But remember, this is a nearly 6,000 pound SUV and it hustles itself down this mountain road with a level of finesse that you wouldn't expect. I mean, this car literally will defy the laws of physics while at the same time you have a huge smile on your face. Now, do I miss hearing an internal combustion engine? Absolutely. I'm a purist. I love that feeling, that noise, the shifting and whatnot. But at the same time, this kind of gives you all the speed, all the technology, all the comfort, all the luxury you could want. So it's kind of nice how Porsche offers both options. Now, the one thing I'm surprised that's not here is the Taycan when they just refreshed it for 2027 has their new shifting feature where you can actually use paddles. This has no paddles here where you can actually shift gears. It creates like an engine sound which is kind of similar to the Ioniq 5N. Apparently, Porsche engineers drove that car and they loved it so much that they wanted to do their own version. I haven't had a chance to drive it yet, but I'm really surprised that it's not here in the Cayenne Turbo, which I'm assuming they may add at some point at a later date to kind of, you know, give us a little bit more of that, you know, drama and that visceral feel to kind of go with the speed of this car. Visibility in the Cayenne is also good. I can see out of the front and the side and the rear pretty easily. I do wish that Porsche offered a digital camera rear view mirror. This A-pillar is a little on the thicker side, but the flow display certainly is interesting to look at when you're in the driver's seat. It also does have, obviously, the car plate and your auto, but I really don't like how small that screen is. The head-up display gets washed out when you have polarized lenses on, but it's kind of nice how it, you know, gives you that augmented reality. But in general, this car has that solid feel that you associate with a German car, with a Porsche. It feels really well-made. I didn't hear a single squeak and rattle in this interior. And then in terms of the range, this model, when we started out on a full charge, was showing 313 miles. It's rated at 298. I'll have to wait until I get one back home to actually test out the actual range to maybe do some charging tests with it. But in general, this is a really nice car to drive. It's smooth and comfortable and quiet when you want it to be. And then it's ferocious when you put your foot down. It literally will shock any of your passengers who are not paying attention, especially if they're on their phones. So, sorry, Rob. But in general, if you guys are considering the Cayenne, you're like wondering, do you want to go with the gas or the electric model? Obviously, if you're settled on the gas version, you're not going to want to compromise there. But if you're open to the electric model, this is the first time Porsche has done an electric version. And I have to say, this thing kind of, it delivers the performance that's going to smoke pretty much every supercar when you pull up next to them at the light, especially if you have the money to pony up for this turbo version. So getting it to drive around in a vehicle that has nearly 1200 horsepower is certainly kind of showing where we are in today's automotive world, because this model is capable of zero to 60 in just 2.4 seconds, which you can easily achieve all day long by activating the launch control. Obviously, if you don't want to use the launch control, Porsche says you only get around 844 horsepower, but I have to say the Cayenne electric, after spending the day here, driving it here in beautiful Aspen, Colorado, definitely has all the Porsche DNA that you can expect, because obviously this vehicle is built off of the PPE architecture, which also is shared with other vehicles within the Volkswagen Umbrella. But Porsche always has some kind of magic. They always do some kind of secret sauce here to make their vehicles feel a little bit more special. Obviously, there are different models that you can drive. There's a base Cayenne, which basically has 435 horsepower. There's a new Cayenne S, which has 657 horsepower. That's going to split the difference. This model here, again, is the turbo version, which I know that name kind of irritates you. I expect Porsche to also do a GTS at some point. That's going to also fill the gap between the S and the turbo model. But what shocks me the most about this vehicle is how smooth it is. The active ride control suspension, which is the most expensive option in this car, gives you a ride quality that you just wouldn't expect is possible in an actual production car. It really hides the weight of this vehicle when you find your favorite back roads, along with that super crazy quick acceleration. We didn't get a chance to obviously DC fast charge this vehicle. I can get one back home for a full week where we can actually do some range testing. When we first got into this car, it was showing around 313 miles of range. Obviously driving up in the mountains on curvy back roads, putting our foot down, definitely made that range go down. But you can easily recoup some of that when you are actually going downhill via the regenerative braking. The interior definitely is a lot to kind of process with the new software, that flow display. I'm not sure I'm crazy about the flow display and how it looks, but it's kind of different. It's kind of cool. The backseat also is very comfortable and supportive. Great for actually carrying full size adults. The seats are also comfortable, but Porsche should really make massaging seats a standard. And the cargo capacity is also usable. I like the fact that it has a relatively good size three cubic foot front trunk area where it kind of gives this vehicle a little bit of an edge, especially if you guys are coming from the gas powered version of the Cayenne. Really, if you guys are looking to get your hands on this vehicle, they are actually already on sale. Porsche, the Cayenne's always been Porsche's second best selling model. They do around 20,000 units every year. The Macan does roughly 27,000 units every year. And this is kind of where the pricing gets interesting with the electric version, because if you guys want to get your hands on the base Cayenne electric, it's going to start at $109,000. The GBS version, which was just revealed, that starts at around $126,000. However, if you want the turbo version, that's around $163,000. Now, if you're keeping score, the base Cayenne electric is around $20,000 more versus a gas powered version of the Cayenne internal combustion model, which you can still buy today. Porsche will sell the two vehicles side by side. It basically gives you the performance of a Cayenne S with its twin turbo V8, while also costing about the same as a Cayenne S. So kind of keep that in mind. The Cayenne S electric is around $126,000. We didn't get a chance to drive that today. But what's interesting about the turbo is at $163,000, it's actually $1,500 cheaper versus a gas powered Cayenne turbo SE hybrid, which offers, you know, less power. It's not quite as quick. It gives you that traditional combustion engine. But when you add in all the options that my test car has, which is around $33,000 in options, the most expensive is the Porsche Active Ride Control. The wheels are $4,000. The premium package is five grand. All in this model here is $196,000. I know 196 grand is a lot, but remember it's actually cheaper versus the gas powered version of the Cayenne. So kind of keep that in mind. Also keep in mind, this is still the most powerful production Porsche and the most powerful production SUV you can currently buy. So those are bragging rights there. For me personally, I think the S is probably going to split the difference nicely. But in general, I definitely feel that the new Cayenne Electric obviously preserves that Porsche DNA that makes the company so famous. And if you guys want to go fully electric and you want something that's just crazy fast, but refined, luxurious, tech heavy, this is definitely a car that you want to put at the top of your list. Just remember, it's going to cost you a pretty penny because it is a Porsche after all. But with all that said, I hope you guys have enjoyed my full detailed overview on the brand new 2026 Porsche Cayenne Electric Turbo. If you're also looking to see the latest cars I'm testing, be sure to follow me on Instagram at Redline Underscore Reviews. Like us on Facebook. And as always guys, please keep subscribing to the Redline Reviews YouTube channel for all the latest reviews. Thank you so much for watching. I'll catch you all in the next video.