• Very spacious interior
• Boot room is generous too
• Coupe roofline limits visibility

How much space is there?

The Cayenne Coupe may well have a sleek looking body, but it’s still a large car sharing mechanical components with the regular Cayenne SUV. That means you get a roomy interior – one that’s very accommodating for four adults.

Space up front is just as plentiful as the regular SUV, with enough adjustment to get comfortable in the cocooning interior whether you’re tall or short. Storage space is pretty good too, with large door bins and a few extra cubbies in handily accessed areas.

Move further back and rear legroom is just as generous, and headroom isn’t as cut off as you might expect. The rear seats are set further down in comparison with the regular Cayenne to ensure that no space is lost. The only difference is the roof slants a bit more and access is slightly more limited because of the smaller door aperture. 

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The Coupe comes with a choice of four or five seats. It’s not the type of car to regularly put a third passenger in the rear seat (where it’s most squashed), so it probably makes sense to keep it as a four-seater with an armrest or storage. Cars come with four as standard, while the 2+1 setup (as Porsche calls it) is an option.

Boot space and storage

At the back, the electric tailgate rises to reveal a 625-litre load area which isn’t to be sniffed at (E-Hybrid models don’t have the adjustable boot floor so those models offer upwards or 545 litres of room (539 litres in the Turbo). That’s measured to the load cover which is of greater importance to most – how often do you really have the seats folded down to fill the whole back of the car?

If you do need to do that, the rear bench folds relatively flat, but that sloping tailgate means outright space trails the normal Cayenne, however it’s still up to a useful 1,540 litres of room. It’s actually quite a deep load area, so you can probably pack in more than you might expect. There’s a reasonable amount of in-car storage as well.

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Is it easy to park?

The roofline does mean there’s a very narrow view through the rear window, which makes rear visibility poor. This is most noticable when reversing in tight areas but since all models come with a rear-view camera and front and rear parking sensors it’s unlikely to be a big issue.

A 360-degree Surround View camera is available as an option too, as is a semi-autonomous ParkAssist feature that can parallel park a Cayenne Coupe for you.

Safety

• Cayenne SUV scored five stars by Euro NCAP
• Cayenne Coupe hasn’t been tested
• Uses the same safety tech and systems

The Cayenne Coupe hasn’t specifically been tested by Euro NCAP, although the regular Cayenne (with which it shares many components and safety systems) scored five stars when it was tested in 2017. That doesn’t automatically mean the Coupe scores the same, but it would be surprising if it performed drastically differently.

Standard kit sees a full suite of airbags across all models (driver and passenger, curtain airbags, knee airbags, front side airbags integrated into the seats) and Isofix child seat points on the outer rear seats. There’s also autonomous emergency braking as standard with a system that holds the brakes on in case of a rear shunt to stop you being pushed into the car in front.

More features can be added at extra cost, including 360-degree cameras, lane-keep assist with traffic sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, a head-up display, lane-change assist and even night vision.

As well as these options, a system called Porsche InnoDrive can be added, which uses navigation data, radar and cameras to automatically adapt driving speed to driving and road conditions. Included in this are active lane-keeping tech, an emergency stop function and intersection assist which is a system to alert you to crossing traffic at a junction – it warns or even stops you if you try to progress when something is there.