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  • Let's say you want a VW Golf GTI or a Jaguar XFR or even a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, but you'd

  • like to turn their performance all the way up to eleven. Well that's why you can get

  • a Golf GTI Performance Pack, A Jaguar XFR S and even a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S. However,

  • are these highly tuned models really worth the extra cash? To find out I'm going to be

  • comparing them on track to their standard versions. In this video we have the Porsche

  • Cayenne Turbo against the Cayenne Turbo S. The normal Porsche Cayenne Turbo has a 4.8-litre

  • V8, with 493bhp and 700Nm of torque. It can hit 62mph in just 4.7 seconds and goes on

  • to an electronically limited top speed of 155mph. It costs £89,324. The Cayenne Turbo

  • S cost £20,460 more but for that you get an extra 49bhp and 50 Nm of torque. The 0-62

  • time forwards by 3 tenths of a second and the top speed increases to 175mph. More importantly

  • the S gets extra goodies in the shape of active torque vectoring, clever active anti roll

  • control system. But does all this make the standard Cayenne Turbo feel somewhat lacking

  • when you take it onto the alien environment of a race track? We've got the car with the

  • gearbox in the sport setting, using the paddles third gear into this first corner, first thing

  • you notice is that for a big heavy car that weighs over two tonnes it's remarkably little

  • roll and you can feel the car just wriggling and working at keeping itself planted to the

  • road. This car hasn't got the active anti roll bar system, hasn't got the torque vectoring

  • system and hasn't got ceramic brakes. So it's a pretty standard Turbo in terms of its dynamic

  • set up. Even then, it's pretty accomplished for a big car. It doesn't feel massively quick

  • on the track but them tracks do sap away performance if that makes sense - it probably feels quite

  • fast on a road. Brakes are quite strong, body control is really good for a big SUV. It's

  • nice natural feeling for a car of this size, and really it's quite a simple car to drive

  • on the track you just really have to brake in a straight line get it turned in and then

  • just manage the weight and get on the throttle. It's not a hard car to drive quickly, there

  • isn't really much you can do to drag more performance out of it. Now we come to the

  • last corner. It's quite an easy straightforward car to drive. The Cayenne Turbo finished with

  • a flying lap of 1 minute 14.1 seconds. But can the Cayenne Turbo S go any quicker? So

  • if you want the ultimate in Porsche SUV you need this car the Turbo S. It's got extra

  • power and you can feel that straight away but it's not just the extra power, this car

  • comes as standard with Porsches PTV torque vectoring system. And it also active anti

  • roll bar system which tightens body roll even more. You can feel that straight away in the

  • first couple of corners because you've got quite a lot of change of direction there and

  • you can feel the active anti roll bars are tying the body control down just that little

  • bit better than the standard car. In terms of the power, you can feel it but it's not

  • a massive difference but it does feel a bit quicker. Traction's good as well - that torque

  • vectoring is just, for a big car, it's quite amazing how it defeats physics on the circuit.

  • There's no finesse to it, but it's just a case of it just turns in and grips and goes

  • so much better than you would imagine a car of this height and weight and size would do.

  • Through here, it does feel better than the standard car. All that vectoring of the torque

  • and just roll bars as well. Just feels a bit sharp. Not a lot in it in the brakes although

  • this car has got the ceramic brakes. Coming around the last two corners, it's a big car

  • but it's really quick and quite well sorted. In the end, the Cayenne Turbo S was four tenths

  • of a second faster around the test track. So is it worth the extra money? Well you can

  • definitely feel the active roll control system working, but you can fit this as an option

  • to the standard Turbo. And for most people, the standard Turbo is more than fast enough

  • for a large SUV.

Let's say you want a VW Golf GTI or a Jaguar XFR or even a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, but you'd

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