The Porsche Cayenne Transsyberia Was the Coolest Cayenne Ever

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00:00This is a 2010 Porsche Cayenne Trans Siberia and it's the coolest Cayenne they ever made.

00:09You might think of the Cayenne as a sporty SUV, maybe something luxurious for rich people to drive their kids to daycare,

00:16but the Trans Siberia was different.

00:19It was the time that Porsche made a factory-built off-roader Cayenne with skid plates and a lift kit.

00:27They went for it and it's cool.

00:29Today, I'm going to review the Cayenne Trans Siberia and show you all of its quirks and features.

00:40Before I get started, big news.

00:42This Cayenne Trans Siberia is for sale and it's being auctioned live on cars and bids.

00:49This is a real Cayenne Trans Siberia from the factory, not a clone, which is becoming hard to find.

00:56And it's mostly unmodified, which is also becoming a challenge to find.

01:00But here it is and you can buy it on cars and bids.

01:04So, once you finish watching this video, click the link in the description below to visit the live auction for this Cayenne Trans Siberia,

01:12where you can bid on it and buy it only on cars and bids.

01:17Alright, time for the quirks and features of the Cayenne Trans Siberia.

01:23There are many quirks of this vehicle, like the fact that it exists.

01:28But let me go through a couple of quick basics.

01:30Trans Siberia. This was a factory-built, off-road-focused Cayenne, like I mentioned.

01:36And it was intended to commemorate Porsche's success in the Trans Siberia rally race.

01:42Porsche entered some highly modified Cayennes.

01:45They won, and they wanted to bring that victory celebration to the consumer in the form of a Trans Siberia Cayenne.

01:54So, let's talk quirks, starting with, well, the name.

01:58It has its name plastered down the side of the vehicle, as you can see.

02:02Cayenne S Trans Siberia.

02:04Strangely, they called it the Cayenne S, but this isn't actually a Cayenne S.

02:10Instead, it has the powertrain from the Cayenne GTS.

02:14Both models used a 4.8 liter V8, but the Cayenne S had 385 horsepower.

02:19The GTS and the Trans Siberia had 405 horsepower, so an extra 20 horses.

02:25So, even though they call it the Cayenne S, it has the extra power from the GTS.

02:29Why did they do this?

02:31My guess is they wanted to keep GTS as sort of a road-focused performance trim level.

02:37And so, instead, this was the S.

02:40Trans Siberia.

02:42And, as you've already seen, yes, the exterior badging is weird.

02:47You have the whole name of the car going down the side,

02:50and then some stripes on the front, as you can see here,

02:53and then on the back is sort of a continuation of the side stripe.

02:58Surprisingly, this is actually the tamest way that you could get the Cayenne S Trans Siberia.

03:06They also offered the graphics package in bright orange.

03:10And they offered bright orange wheels.

03:13And they offered a giant bright orange light bar that could be mounted on the roof from the factory.

03:20This vehicle, thankfully, skips all of that stuff.

03:24Although, I say thankfully, because back in the day,

03:27the orange accents essentially made the vehicles unsellable.

03:31There were stories of them sitting on dealer lots for a year or even more

03:34with their orange wheels and their orange light bar.

03:37But, these days, the orange-accented ones are the ones that everybody wants

03:42because they're cool and special and different and unique.

03:46Although, that's generally the case of the Trans Siberia.

03:49This was not a common vehicle,

03:51and it has become tremendously popular with Porsche enthusiasts,

03:55a factory-built off-road Porsche, in recent years.

04:00But, even if you got the tame one with silver accents instead of orange

04:04and no light bar on the roof,

04:06you still had some pretty cool off-road upgrades.

04:09For one, you got skid plates.

04:11You can see the front skid plate here to protect the car

04:14from whatever you might hit up front doing your serious off-roading.

04:18You also had a rear skid plate, as you can see, for the same purpose.

04:22And you had rock rails, which is just hard to imagine on a Porsche Cayenne.

04:27But, indeed, it had them going down both sides.

04:29Rock rails to protect the paint

04:31when you're in some serious off-road bouldering situations.

04:35You also got all-terrain tires.

04:37Obviously, these are not the factory tires that were on this car

04:40when it was new 15 years ago,

04:42but they are faithful all-terrain tires in the same size.

04:46And that gave the Trans Siberia a little height advantage

04:49compared to other Cayenne models.

04:51Those all-terrain tires added a little height

04:53and, of course, some grip for off-road capability.

04:56Now, beyond that, you also had air suspension standard in the Trans Siberia,

05:01which meant that you could lift up the suspension

05:04to get more ground clearance when you were cruising along.

05:07You didn't have to, and other Cayenne models also offered that air suspension,

05:11but it was standard here for extra ground clearance,

05:14as was a locking differential

05:16to make sure you were fully capable on the trails off the pavement.

05:20The Trans Siberia also came with the Cayenne's optional off-road package

05:24that was standard here, and it included a few upgrades,

05:27but the most important was some different engine-computer tuning

05:31with the traction control to make off-roading more possible.

05:35I guess it wouldn't kick in in certain times and would in other times,

05:38so if you were off-roading, it was optimized for that purpose.

05:42Now, beyond all of that important hardware,

05:45actually, there were also some more cosmetic upgrades,

05:48especially inside, where you had Alcantara seat centers.

05:52You didn't get that in the Cayenne S, although you did get it in the GTS,

05:56so it had that GTS upgrade as well.

05:59You also had an Alcantara steering wheel, as you can see,

06:02with a little center stripe so you knew exactly where center was

06:06when you were on the racetrack or off-roading in tough conditions.

06:10And in the gauge cluster, you can see Trans Siberia is printed there

06:15to remind you of the very bizarre Porsche Cayenne that you're driving.

06:20But I don't want to go too far into interior quirks just yet,

06:24because there are two rather important and hilarious quirks

06:28about this car worth pointing out that involve getting inside.

06:32One is the key, which is shaped like a Porsche Cayenne.

06:37Look at the key. You can see it's got two little headlights up front.

06:41There's like a windshield and even side windows on this key

06:46to make it look like a Cayenne.

06:47Now, Porsche later changed its key shape to kind of resemble

06:51the general body shape of a Porsche,

06:54but this one clearly was intended to be a Cayenne,

06:57even with little headlights on the key.

07:00That was a distinctive element of the original,

07:02the first-generation Porsche Cayenne, a Cayenne-shaped key.

07:06Very charming.

07:07The other hilarious thing about this car getting in,

07:10the door handle situation.

07:13For some reason, Porsche couldn't paint the door handles

07:17in the body color of the car.

07:19This was true for all of the original Cayenne models.

07:22They were able to paint the door handles fully black or fully silver.

07:26So if you had a black or silver first-gen Cayenne,

07:29you got a body-colored door handle.

07:31But if your original Cayenne was any other color,

07:35you got a black or silver door handle with a small strip of color

07:40that matched the body color of the car on the door handle.

07:44So if you had a red Cayenne, you would get a black or silver door handle,

07:47but there would be a red color strip on the door handle.

07:50And you can see this one is gray, gray car, everything gray,

07:54except a black door handle with a little gray strip.

07:58Because for some reason, Porsche couldn't figure out how

08:02to paint the door handle the full body color on the original Cayenne.

08:08That is something you've probably never noticed.

08:10You've seen original Cayennes on the road for 20 years,

08:12and the next time you see one that isn't black or silver,

08:15take a look at the door handle,

08:17and you will be amazed at this ridiculous Porsche quirk.

08:21But anyway, next we climb inside the Cayenne Trans Siberia,

08:25and the first thing you notice when I get in here,

08:27this thing is in pretty nice shape.

08:30It is impressive. This car has almost 105,000 miles on it,

08:33and it still looks, I wouldn't say new,

08:36but surprisingly not very worn for a 15-year-old car with that mileage.

08:41And one big reason for that is these cars were made to be sturdy.

08:46The original Cayenne was intended to be sporty and fun and performancy,

08:51but also an off-road capable vehicle with a sturdy, very well-built interior,

08:58and that clearly shows all these years later, this one is still holding up.

09:03Now, the drawback of that is that you don't get sort of the modern, cool,

09:08stylish, swoopy Cayenne interior with its great tech and nice lighting all throughout.

09:14Instead, you get a pretty upright dashboard.

09:16You get grab handles so people can hang on when you're off-roading.

09:20You have a sturdy interior with a sturdy look in here.

09:24Probably the best example of that is the material that's used on top of the dashboard.

09:28It almost looks like elephant skin.

09:30It's not particularly high quality.

09:32It's no, like, high-end leather or Alcantara, but clearly it holds up well.

09:37This car's been used a lot for 15 years,

09:39and you don't see any warping or changing color cracking of this dashboard material.

09:45Porsche, when they created the original Cayenne,

09:48they created a sturdy, well-built vehicle,

09:50and that clearly all still holds up today in a pretty impressive way.

09:55Now, with that said, although it is very well-built, sturdy in here,

09:59no creaks or rattles, it was still Porsche's first effort at an SUV,

10:05and so there are some rather interesting quirks in this interior.

10:08Quite a few, in fact.

10:09For example, the climate controls.

10:11You have these little switches that you can adjust the temperature and the fan speed.

10:14But where are the rest of the climate controls?

10:16Well, they're hidden behind this panel that says Porsche.

10:19If you want to access them, you push it down, and there are your climate controls.

10:23Strangely, there's this whole pad of buttons, 12 in total,

10:27but there's only five actually functional buttons in here,

10:31and they're sort of randomly placed.

10:33Three on the left, two in the upper right, the rest are all blank.

10:36And, of course, if you want, you can just cover them all up completely

10:40so you don't have to look at your climate control buttons.

10:44Also unusual, in the climate control display area,

10:47there's a clock, even though it's the climate controls.

10:50That's especially unusual because in the center screen directly above that,

10:55there's another clock.

10:57And then in the gauge cluster screen, there's another clock.

11:01Of course, they all match up, but it's a little clock overkill in this car.

11:05Nonetheless, that is the situation.

11:08And the clock in the gauge cluster can be adjusted by pressing this perfectly sized clock button,

11:14which is sort of triangular in shape, placed right between these two gauges.

11:18You push that, hold it down, the clock starts blinking so you can change the time.

11:22Same deal over on the right.

11:23This little button that says 0.0, of course, zeroes out your tripodometer,

11:27also perfectly placed triangularly right in between these gauges in the gauge cluster.

11:33In the center control stack, you have your heated seat controls.

11:36Strangely, not a switch on or off.

11:38It's a dial, and it has five different position settings.

11:42So you can choose heated seat level 2 or heated seat level 3.

11:46If you just want a little bit more heated seat, if you have a very sensitive butt.

11:51Also interesting, you go into the gauge cluster, and you can see this gauge cluster display screen.

11:56It's all pixelated in orange.

11:58It's not particularly high quality, but it is a preview of what's to come.

12:02Of course, after this, you soon had full color LCD gauge screen displays,

12:07and then you had a full gauge cluster screen,

12:11and it started with little pixelated displays like this, one of the earlier gauge cluster screens.

12:16Nothing too exciting here, except for the fact that I love when you start the car, have it in accessories,

12:22it says Porsche in the Porsche red script.

12:26Pretty faithfully done, actually, considering they were working with individual pixels.

12:31Even though everything else is orange, that's red, and it looks pretty cool.

12:35A beginning of the gauge cluster screen.

12:38And speaking of screens, moving on to the infotainment system real quick.

12:42It's actually not so bad.

12:44This is a full touchscreen.

12:46This is a first generation Cayenne, but it's the facelifted model,

12:50and the facelift gave it a touchscreen infotainment system,

12:53which is actually surprisingly responsive to your touch and intuitive to use.

12:57It's not CarPlay, it's not a giant full screen,

13:00and there's a lot of buttons on the side that you can use if you don't want to use the touch,

13:04but this system has held up actually surprisingly well over time,

13:08and is relatively usable even today.

13:11Although one interesting drawback is there's no backup camera.

13:15Even in 2010, Porsche was like, nah, you gotta pay extra for that.

13:19So no backup camera, although this car does have parking sensors,

13:23and you can see the front ones are mounted at the base of the windshield

13:26and give a display in color that shows just how far you are from hitting something as you come close to it.

13:32This is very similar to Mercedes-Benz Parktronic system

13:35that they used throughout the 90s and into the 2000s

13:38before they adopted more camera systems,

13:41and so you have that even though you don't have an actual backup camera in the center screen.

13:47Next up, here's another curiosity in this car.

13:50On the back of the steering wheel,

13:52you have an unlabeled button over on the right side

13:55and an unlabeled button over on the left side.

13:58I spent a lot of time in Cayennes, never noticed those buttons before.

14:01I had to look in the owner's manual to find out what they do,

14:04and the manual says that those buttons will turn on or off the backlighting on the steering wheel controls.

14:11So the buttons on the steering wheel for your phone or turn up volume,

14:14the backlighting can be turned on or off with those unlabeled buttons on the back of the steering wheel.

14:19Very unusual, although not quite as unusual as the shifting buttons on the front of the steering wheel.

14:26You can see Tiptronic mounted here,

14:28and then up or down rocker switches on the left and right sides.

14:33That's, of course, for shifting gears with the Tiptronic transmission.

14:36The interesting thing is, why didn't they use paddle shifters like every other car?

14:41Porsche didn't do it. They didn't commit to paddles until very late.

14:45And instead, they had these little buttons where you could upshift or downshift on either side of the wheel,

14:50left or right, and that was how you were supposed to shift.

14:53Certainly a interesting, kind of unique way to do steering wheel shifting

14:58before finally they got into the paddle world, probably 2011 or 12.

15:02And next up, another rather interesting control in this interior.

15:05You open up the door, you look on the side of the seat,

15:08and you have quite a few seat controls in here, including this switch for up and down.

15:14Strangely, that has nothing to do with the position of the seat itself.

15:17Instead, it actually moves the seat belt.

15:20You can see you push it up, and the driver's seat belt will move up in its little area of movement,

15:27or you can move it down to fit your height, depending on where you would want the seat belt to be positioned.

15:33That's certainly a little bit unusual.

15:35Also, another interesting quirk in here, to open up the glove box,

15:39you press this glove box opener button, which is actually well-integrated into the dashboard trim on the passenger side.

15:45You press that button, the glove box pops open, and you can see it's cooled.

15:49You could cool the glove box if you wanted.

15:51It's not refrigerated, so you can't, like, keep stuff actually refrigerated cold,

15:56but if you wanted to keep, like, a sandwich cool on your drive home,

15:59you could do that by putting it in the glove box. Pretty cool.

16:02And next up, we move on to the back of the Cayenne Trans Siberia.

16:06First thing you notice back here, good rear seat room.

16:09I got the front seat positioned where I would sit pretty tall, and my knees fit back here, legs, head.

16:14It all works in the back of this car.

16:16The Cayenne, when it first came out, was supposed to be family transport in a Porsche,

16:20and it really does work that way, surprising how much space is back here.

16:23In fact, there's even decent space for the middle passenger,

16:26because you don't have a huge hump in the floor for the differential,

16:30but the middle passenger would have to deal with the fact that the side rear seats are essentially sports seats.

16:36You can see they're heavily bolstered on left and right sides, even though they're bench seats.

16:42It's weird to see bolsters in a bench seat, but that's what Porsche has done,

16:46so rear passengers on either side can be safely strapped into their seat

16:50while you're flying around the racetrack, and they're not sliding out of their seats.

16:54Also helpful with that, by the way, is the fact that the rear seats have Alcantara seat centers,

16:59just like you have up front, you also have it in back to keep you in position and to look nice.

17:04It's nice to see it back here. Porsche really didn't cheap out,

17:07even in the back seat of this car, giving you Alcantara.

17:10You also have a couple other nice touches back here.

17:13For one, climate vents, which is nice to see.

17:15You get two in the center, and then also on the B pillar facing you, kind of near eye level.

17:20You don't have separate rear climate controls, but you do get a decent amount of air with all those climate vents.

17:26You also have a power port back here, although only one. You can see it here on the right side.

17:31Strangely, there is a space on the left side for another power port,

17:35and even a little circular break in the trim to allow for it, but this car doesn't have it.

17:40You probably had to pay extra for two power ports,

17:43so they just give you a very obvious blank, reminding you that you're a cheapskate.

17:48Now, one interesting thing in the back seat here, you don't have any cup holders.

17:52There are none integrated into the doors, and even when you put down the center armrest and open it up,

17:58that's just for storage. There are no cup holders involved there either, but you do get ashtrays.

18:04The rear doors have a little storage compartment,

18:07but it is half taken up by ashtrays on both sides, driver and passenger.

18:11Two individual rear ashtrays back here, but no cup holders.

18:16The Germans had their priorities perfectly in order.

18:20And finally, we move on to the cargo area in the original Cayenne.

18:24You open up the tailgate, and you can see the cargo area back here is actually surprisingly large.

18:29The original Cayenne was more squared off than current models,

18:32so it had a pretty squared off, big, lumpy cargo area.

18:35You could get a lot of stuff back here if you wanted.

18:38And you had a ski pass-through in the center of the rear seat.

18:42So if you had some long, straight item, you didn't have to fold the seats down entirely.

18:46You could just kind of stick it through the center and get that item in here.

18:49Skis and ski poles is what it was intended for.

18:52But if you had something even bigger, of course, you could also drop the seats.

18:55They're 60-40 split, and you could put them down for more space.

18:59Another nice feature back here, you had power ports in the back.

19:03You can see little cigarette lighter-style power ports on the right and left sides.

19:07Two individual ports back here, which is nice to have.

19:10Although, unfortunately, this Cayenne came from the era before automakers really started putting household-style power ports in here,

19:16which is what most people would prefer.

19:18Nonetheless, it is nice to have a powered area in the cargo area for all sorts of different purposes,

19:23particularly when you're off-roading like you might be in the Trans-Siberia.

19:28Now, one other rather interesting quirk of the original Cayenne that a lot of people don't realize,

19:34the glass in back opened up independently from the tailgate.

19:39You could open it up completely independently.

19:41There was a little hidden popper in the wiper assembly, and you could pop it open and open it, as you can see.

19:48So for smaller items, you didn't want to open the whole tailgate.

19:51You could just open the glass.

19:52A lot of people out there driving these original Cayenne models don't realize it can do that

19:56because the popper is so hidden.

19:59Now, when you put the glass back down, you can also see the cool spoiler back here.

20:04This was the GTS spoiler.

20:06It's exciting. It's cool.

20:08It makes it look sporty and fun.

20:11Although I call that cool, and frankly, this whole vehicle is pretty cool,

20:15but at the time when it came out, that wasn't the thinking.

20:19This debuted the Trans-Siberia into the recession.

20:23The Cayenne was already a pretty old product.

20:25It came out in 2003.

20:26They replaced it in 2011, and the Trans-Siberia came out in 2009-2010 at the very end of the model run.

20:32And not only that, it came out in a recession with orange accents in a lot of cases.

20:37It was not a strong seller.

20:39Dealers had a hard time selling them, and a lot of them flatly rejected getting any extra Trans-Siberia inventory.

20:46The result is these were rare.

20:49They were very, very uncommon vehicles.

20:51Not a lot of Trans-Siberia models out there.

20:53Not well-received when it first launched.

20:55But like so many other cars that are hated when they come out and beloved later,

21:01a cult following has formed around the Cayenne Trans-Siberia

21:05as it was a low-volume, low-production, factory-built off-roader with a naturally aspirated V8.

21:12And although later Cayenne models are definitely better in a lot of ways than the original Cayenne,

21:18they didn't have the off-road chops that the first Cayenne did.

21:21And that was especially true with the Trans-Siberia, and it was a rare, limited vehicle.

21:26These are special and desirable today.

21:30But, with all that said, I've never driven one,

21:33and I'm curious to see what it's like behind the wheel of a Cayenne Trans-Siberia.

21:37So, let's do it.

21:39All right, driving the Cayenne Trans-Siberia,

21:44which is such a legit name.

21:46And honestly, a pretty legit vehicle.

21:48You know, getting in this, I've spent a lot of time recently in second-gen Cayenne models and new Cayenne models.

21:53I had a new Cayenne loaner.

21:54We had the second-gen for our office challenge thing.

21:57We've been looking at them.

21:58Kenan wants one.

21:59But you get into an original Cayenne,

22:02and you are reminded just how much sturdier this thing felt than the later models.

22:07Now, that's not a knock on the later models,

22:09and it's not necessarily a benefit for this one,

22:11but it is if you want to take it off-roading and go far off-road.

22:15What Porsche decided to do with the original Cayenne in 2003,

22:18there just wasn't that much data on luxury SUVs in the market.

22:23Like, Land Rover had been popular.

22:25And then, other than that, you know, Audi didn't have an SUV.

22:28There was no Bentley.

22:29There was no all this stuff.

22:30Like, BMW had just blazed the trail with the X5 a couple years earlier.

22:34Porsche didn't know what people would expect,

22:36so they wanted to make it both off-road capable and high-performance and sporty.

22:40And so, this has low range.

22:43It has air suspension that takes it up and down.

22:45This is a serious off-road vehicle in addition to being a pretty sporty SUV,

22:49and the result was it was just bulky.

22:51Like, they basically made a Land Cruiser and an X5 in one vehicle,

22:54and it was heavy and big.

22:56They realized quickly people didn't really care about the off-road stuff,

22:59and so those later Cayenne models ditched a lot of that stuff

23:02and lost a lot of weight as a result.

23:04But these early Cayennes just feel so bulky,

23:07which is why a lot of people have done off-road builds with them.

23:10But Porsche did a factory off-road build, and that's this.

23:15So, driving this thing around, first thing you notice, a couple things.

23:17Vehicle's lifted, and so you kind of feel this, like I said, this bulkiness to it.

23:21But it's even more true in this one because it's got a lift.

23:24It's got the all-terrain tires on it, and so you kind of hear them when you're driving along.

23:28Like, this feels like a serious vehicle.

23:31It really does.

23:32It really does.

23:33It has just this gravitas to it that modern Cayenne models, later Cayenne models just never did.

23:39It just feels like it can go anywhere and kind of rrrr.

23:43There's this solidity to it that's massive, especially the Trans-Siberia.

23:48You do get the sense in this that you are in a more legit version of this car.

23:52Now, the next thing you notice when you drive this, and it's quite impressive, actually,

23:56is the performance level is pretty good.

23:58You know, you think about the solidity, you think about sitting up high,

24:01you think about those all-terrain tires and the lift kit and all this sound that you can hear.

24:06But when you step on it, it goes.

24:09The cool thing about the Cayenne Trans-Siberia, even though it was badged as an S,

24:12it had the GTS powertrain.

24:15And the power is excellent.

24:17Power delivery is excellent.

24:19It's smooth. It's fast.

24:20It sounds good. It feels good.

24:22It's got muscular torque.

24:23It is a great powertrain.

24:25It just feels strong and capable always.

24:28Now, if you want an all-out performance SUV, you know, this isn't the one.

24:33You get a Cayenne Turbo from this era, and then you have some off-road chops.

24:36This is definitely obviously more along the off-road edge of this vehicle.

24:41It doesn't have, you know, the power of a Turbo or a Turbo S,

24:44and it doesn't have the handling of a GTS or a Turbo either.

24:47It's good for what it is.

24:48But back in 2003, there was so much criticism of Porsche for going into the SUV space.

24:53And so they had so much to prove.

24:55They just had to make a great vehicle.

24:57And that's exactly what this is.

24:58105,000 miles later, this has no creaks or rattles.

25:02Like, it's well put together because it simply had to be.

25:05They were already risking their reputation making an SUV.

25:07They couldn't risk their reputation making a bad SUV.

25:10And that's why you see a lot of these early, original Cayenne models with 200,000 miles still going strong.

25:15So, overall, with all that in mind, I mean, I think your drawbacks here are going to be, you know,

25:20just sort of overall half fuel economy is probably not great with this.

25:23And obviously, it's an outdated, you know, interior.

25:25There's no car play in here and all that.

25:26But your benefits are actually a pretty sporty SUV and actually a pretty off-road capable SUV.

25:32And it really is, to me, pretty amazing what this combines into one vehicle.

25:37Plus, the Trans Siberia specifically is just so cool.

25:41It's just such a cool version of this car that Porsche did this from the factory.

25:46A lot of people are doing these aftermarket, you know, off-road Cayenne mods.

25:49But this one is actually OE, factory off-road Cayenne.

25:53I can't imagine they do such a thing again.

25:55And if they do, never to this level.

25:57It'll be like an appearance package.

25:58No skid plates or lift kit.

26:00This thing is pretty cool.

26:01I'm into it.

26:02I think it's great.

26:03And I'm surprised at how well it drives, how solid it feels, and how nice it is.

26:06And so, that's the Porsche Cayenne Trans Siberia.

26:11Gone are the days when we will see Porsche create a factory-built, naturally aspirated, V8-powered off-roader.

26:20It'll never happen again.

26:21And that's what makes this so cool.

26:24You can get this Trans Siberia on Cars and Bids.

26:27And now it's time to give this car a Doug's Score.

26:35And the Doug's Score is here.

26:3755 out of 100, which puts the Cayenne Trans Siberia here against, well, there aren't really any rivals

26:43because no luxury brand has ever made an off-road version of its performance SUV.

26:48Frankly, I think there's a lot to like about the Trans Siberia.

26:51With surprisingly good off-road capability, a good powertrain, and a solid, reliable feel all around.

26:56The drawbacks are an old-school interior and older technology.

26:59But overall, this is a pretty damn cool way to enjoy the Porsche Cayenne experience.

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