Put this in the "no duh" category, but after 6 weeks of driving this 958 turbo I've already ****ed up the a wheel. Going from a mid-engine superb handling Boxster to this is just too big a leap. I miss the Boxster, I should have found a way to make it work. Turbo would win on a drag strip, but the Boxster wins in the corners.

So if you have a Porsche sports car and are thinking "I need more space, I'll get a Porsche SUV, it'll be the same". No. It's not.



how accident happened:

 

They are by far the best handling SUV I've ever experienced, but no, they are unable to defeat physics. Bummer on that wheel

 

5000 lbs. High centre of gravity. It's the Boxster of SUV's. But is still a damn suv. Sorry about your wheel though.

 

I think the damage could have easily been done at 1/2 mph while parking next to a curb. I damaged 3 of my 4 AMG wheels that way...so pissed at nobody but me. So it's not the handling of the Cayenne but parking by the driver. If you hit something at any decent speed, the tire and wheel would look a lot worse. Sorry anyway for the damage. Suggest you patch it temporarily with a little touch up paint. It will happen again, you can bet on it.

 

turning radius issue? parallel parking issue? .... not sure I am getting the correlation between Boxster to CTT comparison, as it relates to the ding'd up wheel.

But just as Endless likes to say "that'll buff right out".

sorry to see that damage. Had to get 3 of mine re-worked too. happens to the best of us.

 

Should for gotten a Macan Turbo instead of a Cayenne Turbo. Still no sports car but closer than a Cayenne Turbo. I have a Base Cayenne and a Macan S.

 

taking a corner, more difficult to judge where the wheels are on a SUV than with the boxster

 

macan turbo was too small, it's slower than the cayenne turbo and engine is pushed to it's limit already running 27 psi to that v6.

i'll just need to drive the Cayenne like it's a Lexus

 

hit at approximately 25mph, I was turning a corner like this photo

 

Sign up for your chapter's AutoX event. Not knowing where your wheels are is NOT the car's fault. I also agree that damage does not appear to have been done at speed.

Of course it's not going to handle like a Boxster, but neither will a 911. They are all different cars and I can assure you that the Cayenne is an amazing vehicle running around an AutoX course, but you can't go in with the misguided belief that it is a mid-engine two seater sports car

 

And for anyone wondering, these wheels are $2,700 each from the dealer. So we are riding around on $10,800 worth of wheels

 

I already have, been to the local international racetrack several times with the local PCA, but in the Boxster, not the Cayenne.

You're right, it's not a mid-engine sports car

 

You will calibrate to the new ride. Anytime you make a big change you have to remap all the muscle memory bits. At some point your brain will remap and you can eek out the edges and limits better.

 

I had my 05 CTT out on a BMW track day here in Portland, years ago. Wet track and it was much faster in the turns than the rear wheel drive P car variants. Did get the brakes heated up big time!

 

Wow- lucky you just grazed it. You could have easily taken out the wheel, tire and who knows what. I did my three wheels at about 1 mph, on three separate incidents.