Should you buy one?

If you value driving dynamics above all else in your large SUV, then yes, you should buy one. Unless you can afford to spend the amount of money needed for a Ferrari Purosangue or Aston Martin DBX, you aren’t going to get a better SUV to drive than this – and even then you might prefer the Cayenne to those others. A sports car with room for five and a decent boot? Not quite, but it’s remarkably close.

However, to suggest that this is all the Cayenne has to offer rather undersells the current model. It’s also packed with lovely materials, feels luxurious inside and is available with a lot of modern technology. It’s a great place to spend large amounts of time, and makes long distances melt with its combination of performance and comfort.

Furthermore, the latest Cayenne E-Hybrids offer an impressive blend of performance and zero-emissions capability that few other hybrid SUV rivals get close to matching. It’s a great long-distance cruiser, too, with significant tax advantages over its non-hybrid counterparts.

What we like

Brilliantly polished to drive with a vast array of useful and usable technology, the Cayenne is an outstanding all-round blend of performance, luxury, practicality and prestige.

What we don’t like

Porsche has mastered the art of charging extra for everything, so the hefty list prices are only the starting point – that not so much something we don’t like, rather a simple reality. The E-Hybrids are massively heavy, which blunts their dynamics a bit compared to other versions. There’s similarly not much that can be done about that.