The Porsche Cajun Coupe Crossover
Porsche has confirmed that they are working on a smaller SUV / Croosver – the Porsche Cajun – which will come to market in 2014.
The news that there has now been official confirmation that the Porsche Cajun is going to be built won’t come as an enormous shock to regular readers. We’ve been talking on and off about a baby Cayenne for what seems like forever.
Just last month we reported that the Porsche Cajun will be more a crossover than an SUV in a move designed to protect sales of the Audi Q5, on which the Cajun will be built. As we said at the time, we don’t really see that, but if internal politics makes the Cajun more overtly sporty and less baby SUV, so much the better.
Porsche are using inverted commas when referring to the “Cajun” in the bumph they sent us conforming that the Cajun is a work in progress, so we guess there’s still not 100% agreement that Porsche’s SUV/Crossover range should be named after spicy peppers.
Name apart, the Cajun is much as we expected. It will be based on the Audi Q5; it will be a smaller, sporty sibling for the Cayenne and will be potentially an even better cash-cow for Porsche than the Cayenne. And, just like the Boxster and Cayman on the ‘Sporty’ side of Porsche, it will give an entry-level point for Porsche ownership that should reach down to younger and less affluent buyers.
And when will all this happen? 2014.
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