A 2011 Porsche Cayenne converted into a pickup is selling for NZ$50,000 in New Zealand, but the owner spent almost double that to make it legal
There Porsche Cayenne it was the model that relaunched the Stuttgart brand, causing its sales to skyrocket starting from its arrival in dealerships in 2002. It was Porsche’s first SUV and marked a moment of no return, from which high-wheeled models began to have an enormous weight in the company’s budgets, at least partially compensating for the losses of the other models. The model that Porsche has never made, and no wonder, is another one: the pick-up version of the Cayenne. A New Zealander thought of it, who bought the German sports SUV in 2011 and transformed it into a luxury work vehicle. This Porsche Cayenne pickup is now for sale.
CAYENNE PICK-UP
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The basis of the transformation is one Porsche Cayenne 3.0 V6 turbodieselwith 240 horsepower and 550 Nm of torque, all-wheel drive and an eight-speed automatic transmission. The original car had the rear part of the roof cut off and the rear doors removed. The rear seats were removed and the cargo box was created, which is actually a little short given that the car’s wheelbase, equal to 2,895 millimetres, remained unchanged. Naturally, the tailgate has also been modified and cut, which now opens downwards like on all pick-ups. However, the original alloy wheels on which they were mounted remain unchanged all terrain tyres. Finally, not even the front part of the passenger compartment was touched which, like all cars registered in New Zealand, is right-hand drive.
CRAZY EXPENSES
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The most absurd thing about this transformation is not so much the enormous amount of work that was necessary in the workshop, but the total cost of the works and, above all, the expenses for re-register the car as a truck in New Zealand. The dealer who has the vehicle on consignment declares that the owner spent over 80,000 New Zealand dollars (equal to approximately 41,000 euros) for the bureaucratic procedure alone, but it is not known how much was spent on the actual transformation. The selling price of the car, however, is decidedly lower: 49,995 New Zealand dollars, equal to approximately 26 thousand euros, for a vehicle with 204 thousand kilometers travelled. Unless those have been transformed too.
