2024 Porsche Cayenne Owner’s Manual

If there is one thing Porsche has mastered since they launched their first SUV (the original Porsche Cayenne) in 2002, it is the creating performance-tuned options that blow almost everything else in the same category out of the water, albeit at a higher price point.

The 2024 Porsche Cayenne is an incremental continuation of this impressive legacy, with all the same properties, including superior handling and performance and that fun-to-drive nature that most competitors find impossible to beat.

The 2024 Cayenne has mild stylistic updates to its exterior and interior to improve an already immaculate aesthetic setup further. While the changes on the outside are minimal and only visible to the trained Porsche enthusiast’s eye, the interior modifications are a lot more visible at first glance.

Porsche reimagines the dashboard on the Cayenne, creating an experimental toggle-type shift lever atop the dashboard’s center, yet that isn’t even the most significant change. You also get a dashboard length of digital real estate with three screens that give you that spaceship-type feeling. You get a 12.3-inch touchscreen that serves as the central infotainment unit, a separate 10.9-inch for the front passenger (which can be used for content as it is invisible from the driver’s seat as a safety feature), and a crisp 12-6-inch gauge cluster.

Completing the dashboard changes is a new steering wheel borrowed from the Porsche 911.

However, despite the luxurious cabin, the refined exterior, and the abundance of standard tech and pricey optional tech addons that is Porsche’s signature—and that already manages to best most of the competition—its performance remains its brightest shining light.

Porsche manages to up their already superior performance across the board.

While Porsche has not released the specs for the expected range-topping GTS trim yet, we already know that the S trim ditches its 2.9-liter twin-turbo V-6 for a significant upgrade to a 468-horsepower 4-liter V8. Elsewhere, the E-Hybrid gets a slight improvement, now producing a combined 463 HP, and even the base trim with its 3-liter turbocharged V-6 gains 13 HP for a new output of 348 horsepower.