Porsche Cayenne practicality and boot space

• Lots of standard safety equipment included
• Various pieces of driver assistance kit also available
• Cayenne is a safe and solid family car

No surprise that when the safety kit-laden Cayenne was crash-tested by the experts at Euro NCAP at the end of 2017 it achieve a full five-star rating.

Key safety items on all Porsche Cayennes includes:

• Driver, passenger, driver’s knee, all-round curtain and side airbags
• Active bonnet (pops up in event of a crash)
• Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB)
• Alarm
• Immobiliser
• Traction and stability control
• Cruise control
• Electric parking brake
• Hill hold function
• Front and rear parking sensors
• Tyre pressure monitor

Porsche Cayenne: optional safety kit

On top of the above features, there’s a good spread of optional extras on hand to bolster the Cayenne’s safety and driver-assistance credentials.

You can order adaptive cruise control, traffic sign recognition, a reversing camera, a 360-degree parking camera, a fire extinguisher, night vision display, lane-change monitor, side airbags in the rear and electric roll-up sunblinds for the back windows. 

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• Spacious cabin
• Plenty of rear space
• Plenty of storage too

The Cayenne is a big car – in fact it’s larger inside than the previous generation – and you’ll seat four adults perfectly well.

A fifth is possible, though legroom is restricted compared with the outer seats thanks to a wide transmission tunnel and centre console. 

There will be no complaints from those in the front, with a huge amount of adjustment in the seats, and the cocooning feel (thanks to the high central tunnel) doesn’t mean it feels cramped.

With dimensions such as these, it’s a good job the Cayenne has rear parking sensors as standard – it’ll be a challenge to park in an average-sized UK space between two other cars otherwise.

However, its elevated driving position means you’ve got excellent visibility, but we’d still consider specifying a model with cameras to aid manoeuvres.

An automatic parking system is available as an optional extra, while a system to park automatically via your phone becomes available later in 2018. 

The Cayenne’s boot has grown by 100 litres to 770 with the rear seats up, so it’s already a winner in the practicality race against its predecessor.

For comparison, a Range Rover Sport bests it (only just) at 784 litres, but it completely trounces a BMW X5.

It’s worth noting that, if you buy a Cayenne E-Hybrid, boot space decreases by about 100 litres as the battery pack is located beneath the boot floor.