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Porsche Cayennes Used As Emergency Vehicles

Filed under: Services, Luxury Cars & Autos

If you must have a medical emergency, best do it in Stuttgart. Stuttgart just received a pair of custom-designed Porsche Cayennes to use as medical emergency transport. The duo of Porsche Cayennes combine speed and agility to climb Stuttgart's mountainous region but perform equally well in its urban areas. These new models will feature cutting edge alarms including a "hissing" sound that has been proven to alert bystanders more quickly to an oncoming emergency vehicle, meaning the roads clear faster. At least after onlookers get used to the ambulance-chic SUVs whirring by.

[via Autoblog]

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Sopranos Porsche Raises $100,000

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Wine, Auctions, Celebrity Shopping, Charity

The results are in from the auction of the Porsche Cayenne used on The Sopranos. Richard and Theresa Beauchamp from Steamboat Springs, Colorado placed the winning bid on the Porsche Cayenne for $90,000 and the auctioneer Jack Williams added in $10,000 of his own money for an even $100,000 raisedfor the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation. The Beauchamps already own a Cayenne Turbo but are fans of the show.

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Bid On Carmela's Porsche

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Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Auctions, Celebrity Shopping, Charity

The HBO series The Sopranos may be over but the fan base lives on. For those who loved the show here is a chance to bid on the Porsche Cayenne driven by Carmela Soprano (Edie Falco) during the show. In 2005, Porsche donated the car to the show. In the plot of the series, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) gave it to his wife Carmela as a gift. The Cayenne's exterior is Prosecco with a Sand Beige interior and it includes a bronze plaque signed by James Gandolfini and Edie Falco. The car will be auctioned off on October 6 in Las Vegas to benefit the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation.

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2008 Porsche Cayenne Hits The Press Fleet

by Erin Mays (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

The Porsche Cayenene might just be one of Porsche's most brilliant ideas in the last decade. Launched in 2003 at a time when Americans were desperately in love with sport utility vehicles, the Cayenne was largely responsible for helping Porsche keep sales up in America, even after September 11 when only the hardiest of automakers reported improved sales figures in the U.S.

That's why the 2008 Porsche Cayenne is such an important redesign for Porsche. On the performance side, direct fuel injection increases power while improving efficiency (a must on Porsche's monster, which now gets 14 mpg in the city, 20 highway vs. the 2003 versions 13/18), and optional chassis control and air suspension systems make the Cayenne the preferred weekend grocery/kid/dog hauler of sports car owners. These systems don't come cheap ($3,000 for the chassis control and $3,500 for the air suspension), but finding a vehicle that is as at home on the racetrack as it is off-road is a tough charge indeed. Both systems allow for better performance in almost any driving condition.

The styling changes are minimal, but then again, that has been Porsche's secret to success with other vehicles such as the Porsche 911. If it ain't broke, as they say... For 2008, Porsche designers stretched the headlights to give the impression of a wider hood, and also to exaggerate the lines of the fender flares, which give the vehicle a beastlier stance and better emulate the sports car bretheren of the Cayenne. Besides that, though, Porsche seems to have taken the winner they introduced back in 2003 and put their engineering budget toward what matters most for Porsche owners: performance.

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