Is there any way to keep the car in Sport mode and then select out of it? I want to default to the Sport setting.

 

Kind of ironic that your Porsche doesn't default to sport, right? I wish Porsche would make the default a user configurable option or at least have the car remember your prior setting. Unfortunately, I think it deselects Sport every time you restart it.

 

If there is, I haven't found it. But Sport Mode is hard on fuel. Matter of fact, the tranny actually senses any lull in aggressive (sport) driving, and slips temporarily out of sport mode and into 7th gear on its own. That said, I only use Sport Mode when showing off the car and when towing. My ego excuses the fuel usage in the former, but regarding the latter - staying out of overdrive can be a plus in when towing.

When you get right down to it, Sport Mode is actually more appropriate to the gasoline powered Cayennes. The 406 ft-lbs under your foot in the diesel represents a kind of sport mode all by itself. I think they just left Sport Mode in the diesels because it would have been more expensive to delete it.

//greg//

 

No way that I know of, but I'd like it if there was (at least a "last setting" memory).

Now it could be that there is a solution to this problem though. I expect that the console communicates over the CAN interface. As such if someone were so inclined and technically able you could get a CAN interface that lets you inspect the traffic and then isolate the Sport Mode on/off command(s). After those are isolated it wouldn't be difficult to build something based on a Wiring or Arduino board that stays plugged into the ODB port and does the work of setting it the way that you want after you start the car.

In fact there appears to be an Arduino shield already which means there should be libraries available to make it that much easier.