“A Platinum Edition lettering to welcome you in”.
About a year ago, Porsche expanded the Cayenne family by rolling out a Platinum Edition available with the V6 turbodiesel engine and the hybrid powertrain.
Now, the folks from Stuttgart are giving the hotter Cayenne S a similar treatment with extra standard goodies like eight-way sports seats wrapped in leather borrowed from the beefier GTS. Both gasoline and diesel versions of the high-performance SUV ride on 21-inch Sport Edition wheels featuring a satin finish and can also be visually distinguished by their glossy black accents.
You can have them with black or white standard paints or one of the five optional metallic hues: Rhodium Silver, Mahogany, Jet Black, Purpurite, and Carrara White. Regardless of the one you go for, the wheel arch extensions are going to be finished in the same color as the rest of the body, while tinted rear windows and adaptive bi-xenon headlights will be part of the standard equipment as well.
Once you virtually hop inside the cabin, the Cayenne S will greet you with fancy front door entry guards adorned with the “Platinum Edition” lettering. Porsche will also throw in its PCM infotainment system with online navigation and a Bose surround sound system to sweeten the deal. Heated seats are also among the extensive list of goodies, as are the front and rear parking sensors, automatically dimming rearview mirrors, and an analog clock mounted on the dashboard.
There aren’t any changes underneath the hood, so the Cayenne S Platinum Edition soldiers on with 309kW and 550 Nm generated by its biturbo 3.6-liter six-cylinder engine. It’s the same story with the Cayenne S Diesel Platinum Edition featuring the standard 4.2-liter V8 biturbodiesel with 283kW and a torquetastic 850 Nm.
The basic retail prices for the new Cayenne S Platinum Edition models in South Africa with a 3-year Drive Plan are as follows:
Cayenne S Platinum Edition R 1,171,000
Cayenne S Diesel Platinum Edition R 1,362,000
ZA TOP RANGE 