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The Cayenne That Is Quick Enough to Be a Supercar, Built to Still Make the School Run

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Car and Driver put the 2026 Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric through its paces and came back calling it the most potent Cayenne Porsche has built in electric form. The magazine's verdict: acceleration it likened to a supercar's, paired with an SUV just as ready for towing a boat to the ramp or handling the day care pickup—on the same outing, by the review's own telling. For owners weighing Porsche's electric SUV flagship against the rest of the lineup, the test treats that speed less as the headline than as one more item on an unusually long list of things this Cayenne can do in a single day.

With reporting from Car and Driver.

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