Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT

In a catalogue of 600 cars, the 2021 Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT marks a very specific moment: a year represented by a machine that places SUV performance at the centre of a dream garage. Its position is unusual because it combines a 5-door SUV body style with figures that sit deep inside performance territory, ranking 156th for power and 154th for 0-100 km/h acceleration across the entire catalogue. Faster than 446 cars in the collection, it shows how a practical format can occupy serious performance space.

The defining feature of this Cayenne Turbo GT is the combination of traits it brings together. It is one of only 40 turbocharged V8 cars in the 600-car catalogue, and one of 74 cars pairing a V8 with AWD. Its 4.0-litre turbocharged V8 produces 631 bhp and 850 Nm, sending power through AWD to achieve 0-100 km/h in 3.3 seconds and a top speed of 300 km/h. Those figures explain its place in the collection: not as a specialist built around one narrow purpose, but as a high-output SUV that sits among cars with very different shapes and identities.

The catalogue position also gives perspective to its price and production. At a used price of £145,000, it ranks 238th for cost, making it more expensive than 362 cars in the collection. Its cost per bhp is £230, a figure that reflects the relationship between its asking price and its 631 bhp output. Production stands at 2,002 cars, and among the 177 catalogued cars with known production figures, 129 are rarer, placing its scarcity in a more measured context. Built in Germany by Porsche, a manufacturer founded in 1931 in Germany, it represents a distinct approach within a catalogue containing 197 German cars and 65 Porsche entries.

A dream garage without this Cayenne Turbo GT would have plenty of speed, but it would miss the particular balance found here: a 5-door SUV carrying a turbocharged V8, AWD, 631 bhp and a 300 km/h top speed. With it included, the collection gains a car that changes the shape of what a performance machine can occupy. It sits as a reminder that the boundaries between categories are not fixed, and that a garage built from 600 choices can still make room for something with its own combination of numbers.