Spotted in this picture is Miley Cyrus snatching a safe and secure spot to park the vehicle, Porsche Cayenne GTS. But the vehicle was not hers. It was her mom’s (seen in the picture). They were apparently to grab coffee at Coffee Bean.
Motortrend touted the vehicle as currently the best handling SUV on the planet with its combination of performance and luxurious utility. The vehicle is powered by a freer-breathing, 405-horsepower version of the 385-horsepower, 4.8-liter V-8 offered in the Cayenne S, the $69,300 GTS slots neatly between the S and the 500-horsepower Cayenne Turbo in engine output and price, but its dynamic prowess makes the GTS more than just a marketing exercise.
The Porsche Carrera GTS also gets down the road, paved or otherwise, with genuine Porsche spiritedness. The factory claims (conservatively, we think) 0-to-62-mph dashes of 6.5 seconds with the six-speed Tiptronic S gearbox and 6.1 seconds when equipped with the new six-speed manual (and its shorter final drive), and both models will reach 100 mph in around 15 seconds, but this more than sufficient acceleration isn’t even the GTS’s core strength.
The GTS instead stands out from the crowd of five Cayenne models by its handling, as we discovered on the narrow, winding roads along Portugal’s rugged western coastline. It’s the first Cayenne to echo Porsche sports-car practice by matching its amazing Active Suspension Management system with steel springs instead of with air suspension – but not on GTS models sold in America because of federal ride-height regulations concerning the Cayenne’s classification as a light truck. U.S. models instead will get, as with the other Cayennes in the lineup, PASM combined with air suspension.
In case you don’t know, Miley Cyrus is the actress playing in the Disney Channel Original Series, Hannah Montana. To the kids and teens, she is simply Hannah Montana. She is also Destiny Hope Cyrus in real life but purportedly in the legal process of changing it to her given name, Miley Ray Cyrus.
