Back to V8 for the 2021 Porsche Cayenne GTS

For just about ten years, Porsche’s GTS lineup has featured a 3.6L, twin-turbo V6, while its cousins, the Cayenne and Panamera Turbo, have made the leap to 4.0L, twin-turbos. Well, good news for GTS fans everywhere, as its finally made the leap with a detuned 4.0L engine.

More power

And what wonders two additional cylinders can do. 18 more horses and an extra 12 lb-ft of torque, means you’ll get from 0-60 in around 4.6 seconds, 4.2 if you deck it out with the GTS Coupe standard Sport Chrono package.

It’s all fine margins when you’re beating the traffic to get to the grocery store, right?

Coming back to those horses, the new GTS is a mere 100 away from the range-topping 550 hp on the Cayenne Turbo.

Who knows, they might even add a couple more cylinders on the 2022 variant, and with some tuning, the GTS can be the new chart topper.

Exhaustively delicious

If you’re an ass person, then you’ll be delighted to know the new GTS will have a sports exhaust that’s described as an “emotive aural experience.” Can’t say for sure, but that sounds like sexy car talk for ‘nice ass’.

And if you opt in for the Lightweight Sports Package, you could benefit from a loud centre-exit exhaust option. Ah the innuendo.

The new model has also benefited from improvements in handling. No use having this piece of arm candy if you can’t handle it, right?

It now sits 20mm lower than its predecessor and is tricked out with standard Porsche ACtive Suspension Management and Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus.

For around $3k more, you can even get Porsche’s Dynamic Chassic Control, while for an extra $1.6k, you can fit an active rear-wheel steering system onto your GTS.

It’ll be worth it when you’re boasting about your new ride at your car club, otherwise you’ll be standing there with a capital ‘L’ on your forehead.

Darker notes

It seems like the GTS has gone over to the Dark side of the Force, with a dark tinted LED tail light bar and black air intakes, window trim, and badging.

For comfort, you can put bums to a standard eight-way adjustable sports seat, exclusive to the GTS, and marvel at the high spec finish of Alcantara and brushed aluminium. Or should we say, aluminyum.

Right direction?

It looks like Porsche’s going in the right direction, backtracking on their strange downsizing of upper models.

I think they, and all other Porsche enthusiasts, would want to move on from and forget about the horrific flat-four 718 Boxster and Caymans. And they’ve done just that with the GT4 and Spyder variants, which have been outfitted with naturally aspirated flat-six engines.

Wonder when they’ll start saying mo’ cylinders, mo’ problems #dadjokes.

Prices start at $108,650 for the Cayenne GTS, while the GTS Coupe comes with a $111,850 price tag.

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