Sweetness

“likely one of the fastest SUVs on the road”

—This thing costs 160k+! I’m not a fan of any SUV but the fact is anyone could buy a Jeep SRT-8 for 35k and go 0-60 in the same 4.6 and 0-100 in under 12 flat…

when you can blow your money on a cayenne turbo i dont think id bother with an srt-8 either. id rather have a gemballa cayenne though, those are the sickest ones around. (save for the rinspeed chopster.. but who has 400k for an suv)

all substance, no style.

oh and a 40K Jeep can match it.

I’m a bit cynical, I suppose.

i drive a jeep. I drive a Porsche. See the difference. and im sure the porsche will out handel and out brake the jeep. which is more important the speed when you weight 5000lbs

looks like an obese bumble bee.

that could be damn near as ugly as a yellow aztek. Kill it quick.

Get rid of the stupid paint job and this thing is awesome

I agree with y’all. I’m sure it’s bloody fast, but jeez—who picked out that color scheme? Fast tuner cars should look NICE, not ugly.

from distance it looks like a the average badly tuned and kitted pre 2000 golf GTI or so. the next thing we’ll se here is a modified MAN truck with 2000HP getting 0-60 in 5s. how useless.

this is a useless machine.. its shapped like a small barn and about as ugly as one too… and you are correct a 40k jeep can match its performance and its leses than a third of the cost… They shouldn’t even be able to GIVE these away let alone sell them for 160k for cripe sakes… yeah I know the yuppie set that can’t drive ANYTHING that doesn’t say Porsche on the side will buy this ugly barn for sure… and that is a proven expample of having more money than brains…

such an ugly car.

i love Porsche but that paint chop is fugly.

nice, however A Hennesey performance Jeep SRT-8 will run 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. It all depends on wether you want the cache of “I drive a Porsche”.http://www.hennesseyperformance.com/hennesseyperformance/ItemDetail.php?Item_ID=264&cart=FZEWeDYd&DoThis=Jeep+SRT8+HEMI&ActionReq=Where cool videos on that site

what ****ty brakes

repaint it completely black with techart wheels.

4.6? So, what? A Mercedes ML63 does it in the same time. And it is not ugly…

Always cracks me up when the “more money than brains” crowd starts in on anything beyond what they could imagine spending on a car.
Sorry if it bothers you so much guys, but some people HAVE that much money to blow. That doesn’t make the stupid, just rich.
BTW, I PERSONALLY think these Cayenne tuner cars are stupid, but for a different reason. They take away what made the Cayenne untouchable. OFF ROAD ABILITY.
All those quoting jeep srt8 numbers compared to a Cayenne turbo are missing one important point. Porsche COULD have made the Cayenne MUCH faster on the street, BUT they chose to do the near impossible and make (for its time) the fastest SUV, AND an outstanding offroad performer. Take the SRT8 up a rocky trail and see how long it lasts. The Cayenne can out trail a Hummer, then hit the hiway and do 165 on the way home. THAT, is engineering genius, folks.

So this is a body kit (which looks like ****), some engine bolt-ons, a rim job and let’s not forget that incredible paint. Pretty soon any asshat with a can of Tremco and a wrench will be called a tuner.

stig,
yes, “tuner”, not “rebuilder”.
What more do you expect a tuner to do? Reengineer the entire car?

The number of real tuners (ie those that know something) are few and far between - rim jobs and body kits go in with the “Unique Whips” crowd - really lame.

So, who in your book is a real “tuner”, and what do they do to the cars that makes it so?