Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT
Why 7.3: A 2.2-tonne SUV with a Nürburgring record — the only Cayenne bought on lap time. Still a school-run machine five days a week, which is the point of the category.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The standard titanium sports exhaust makes this the loudest thing Porsche sells with five doors, hard on upshifts and crackling on a lift. But it is a hot-vee twin-turbo, so the induction is sealed away and nothing develops beyond 6,800 rpm.
8-cylinder · turbocharged · 6,800 rpm redline · rated 6.6 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €166k (2022) → €129k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Two ISOFIX points on the outer rear seats, confirmed by independent inspection of current Cayennes; the middle position is belt-only.
Same story as the Macan: no factory front-passenger ISOFIX/airbag-switch package. A child seat rides up front on the belt alone.
Owner-forum consensus (macanforums.co.uk); BabyDrive Cayenne Coupe review (owner-community sourced, not manufacturer documentation)
The long version
Owners buy the Nurburgring lap-record story once and then mostly forget about it, using the car the way anyone uses a large fast SUV: school runs, airport parking, the occasional back road taken a bit quicker than necessary. Values have eased in a steady, unremarkable line since 2022, no speculative spike, no flipper premium, just normal three-tonne-adjacent depreciation. No badges attach because it does not do anything extreme in either direction, not driven hard enough to be a track tool, not precious enough to be a trophy. It is the Performance SUV category's proof that a genuinely capable chassis can still live an ordinary life.