The time has come to chip my Volvo XC90 in as I am sick & tired of being overtaken by pushbikes and the wife wants a Cayenne.

Any opinions, experiances, etc?

 

a mate of mine's got one and he reckons its the biggest pile of crap he's ever bought

he's now chopping it in on a Range Rover

 

Which model did he have?

 

dont know if there any good or not but they are pig ugly, i drove a mates 3.0d x5 down to southern france this year and that was a top motor

 

Birds Dad has one ...nice car and fully loaded, dont hang around either. Fuel consumption makes my 740i look brilliant

 

the turbo is the one to go for!

my old man was lookin at the year half ago, didnt get one tho


the first time i saw one i was inthe diesel and went to overtake this 'cayenne turbo' didnt realise was a porker and it just fooked off

i was like rung the old man and asked him and he said he had been lookin at them


have heard there quite good tho, range rovers keep nreaking down aswell

carl

 

i were behind some special edition on way to the pod last year





something 500 i worked this out to be the bhp when he booted it

 

not sure of the model but i think it had a 4lt engine maybe supercharged? it was quick as fook but spent more time at the dealers than on the road

 

those range rover sports are well nice supercharged v8 very very

 

 

i love cayennes...ive driven the turbo model and it went like fook and handled really well as a guy in a skyline found out

not had one over a long period of time so not sure bout reliability

 

Saw a cayenne turbo on the 1/4 mile strip, very quick believe it or not, faster that a old shape [pre 996] 911 turbo anyway

 

After working on a dozen or so, and the VW Touregg(sp) which is an IDENTICAL car (take apart a Cayanne and all the components inside, right down to the wondow motors and speakers are all VW parts) I declare them to be shite..... Seriously! Design and build quality is shocking for a car of such prestiege. And even more shocking for a car built by VW, of the VW/Audi Group (VAG). I was most dissapointed with them, honestly.

That said, the turbo version don't half fucking shift For it's seize and weight it properly goes!

 

Land Rover have sorted the Range Rover now plus they give extra warranty on them

 

Go like fook.....

Handle incredible...

But the fuel consumption will bankrupt you.....

 

Mate has just got rid of his turbo one for a Turbo S and loves it. Reckons its just as quick as his gallardo...

 

Ugliest car ever built IMO.

Just buy a Scania.

Why not get an AMG 55 estate or an RS6?

 

Why dont yer get yer XC90 remapped at www.volvotuninguk.com , if its a D5 they can make 226bhp.

 

A mate of mine has the Cayenne Turbo and the fooker is crazy quick! On our local short test track he pulled 160mph (on the speedo) - his evo 6 can only get to 140 on the same stretch!!!!! He loves it but servicing isnt cheap as you'd expect!

 

man it would nevr be as quick as a gallardo, that turbo book figure to 60 is 5.7

the turbo s has aout 50bhp more

that will never stay with a gallardo which does it in like 4.3

 

On the roll mate obviously not off the line

 

I had a 4.5 V8 S model when they first came out. A great car, but make sure you buy one with the optional air suspension and PASM...it makes it go around corners like a sports car.

 

Was looking at either 4.5S with Air Suspension and PCM or the Turbo version.

 

Mate of mine has the turbo S with the porsche power upgrade running over 500bhp and similar torque and loves it to peices

But as said fuel consumption is ermmm....

 

Can't be worse than a E55 AMG or a RS6? Can it...

 

What you want is a TDV8 Range Rover sport... 600+NM torque ... £50k+ Delivery January

 

If you can afford one you can afford the petrol.

Steve.

 

And they are horrible as well, had a very bad accident in one a year ago and was great safety wise but horrible to drive in the wind and a very boring interiour classic BMW

Mike

 

dont really like the porsche or the bmw one id go for a range rover vogue i want a 4x4 thats luxury not really quick i also like the audi q7 but beckham has one so fook that

 

Depends what you really want from a 4x4 ?, My wife & i test drove a new D5 XC90 & i must admit i really did think it was a great vehicle, quality was good to, we tried the X5 also but for us the boot space was far too small, is the new V8 XC90 out yet ? TBH the XC90 is the best in its class,7 seats & still has a big boot but after all that we did'nt buy one as i could'nt put up with the very poor performance of the D5. We bought the V70 R 300bhp estate instead & love it

Simon.

 

Have driven the X5 4.4 Sport and didn't like that too much.

The majority of Range Rovers that I have seen, seem to be driven by pikeys or people with necks the size of birthday cakes.

The Volvo is the best all round vehicle but has no soul.

Has driven the Cayenne 4.5s and liked it but went for the XC90 because of the 7 seats.