
sales would become the third-best-selling model in the Stuttgart carmaker's lineup. A three-row Porsche sedan-crossover-thing that brought in another 15,000 or so U.S. sales in 2019 with 19,001 units, the midsize CUV looking on track to beat that record this year. The Cayenne found 18,092 new homes last year, dropping only slightly from its best-ever U.S. In a down sales year last year, the three-row Audi Q7, BMW X7, and Mercedes-Benz GLS combined to move about 63,000 units in the U.S. If the vehicle really is that simple, it sounds like a fine idea despite the potential howls of protest from Porsche purists. This is what police must feel like when they interview enough witnesses to nail down a description of a perp who looks like everyone and is everyone's height, too.Īutomotive News described this as a crossover that would best the Cayenne for size in length and width, that could pack three rows of seating, and make its debut in the latter 2020s with a plug-in hybrid powertrain.

Another dealer said the model was "very un-Porsche-like," also unlike the Cayenne and Macan, with "a flat rear design." So it's nothing like the crossovers Porsche makes now, and might not look like anything Porsche would make, except that it's a crossover as well as a sedan, both of which Porsche do make, with a flat rear that's also rakish. One dealer told AN that the model, shown during meetings in Atlanta, was "a new style of vehicle that is part sedan, part crossover," with a "rakish" design. We're also certain, based on reports from Porsche dealers to Automotive News, that one of those vehicles is a crossover. We're certain Porsche is considering all kinds of new vehicles in established and emerging segments.
