2025 Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT

Porsche's most powerful SUV combines everyday practicality with the dramatic performance and thrills of a true sports car. Porsche may be making a green impression with its ever-expanding range of electric and hybrid vehicles, but it’s comforting to know that the German brand is still capable – and willing – to surprise. Case in point? The updated 2025 Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT, which takes everything Porsche has learned about combining electrification and performance… and ignores it. For now, at least. There’s an electric Cayenne coming, but it won’t be launched in Europe until 2026, or 2027 in Australia. Even when the Cayenne is fully electric, Porsche has confirmed that the petrol variant will remain “until and beyond 2030”. So there’s plenty of time to enjoy this, the most powerful Cayenne to date, a 485kW/850Nm twin-turbo V8 monster capable of completing the 0–100km/h sprint in 3.3 seconds. It should come as no surprise that the Cayenne Turbo GT comes from Porsche’s motorsport department, the engineering minds responsible for a number of high-performance Porsches, usually wearing the GT3 or GT4 badge. Not so with the Cayenne, which ‘only’ gets the ‘GT’ moniker. That’s not to disparage the Cayenne Turbo GT, which is essentially a performance monster as those two letters usually indicate on a Porsche.

The 2025 model year update brings performance upgrades, some exterior styling tweaks and new tech inside the cabin. But the upgrades also come at a price. The entire Cayenne range, including the Turbo GT, has seen a price increase. The range-topping Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT starts at $371,700 (before on-road costs and options). And as is typical with Porsches, extra options can quickly add to the price. Our test car, for example, with a host of extras, was priced at $412,641 (in NSW) according to Porsche’s online configurator. That’s almost double the price of the Cayenne S Coupe, which is powered by the same twin-turbo V8, albeit with 349kW and 600Nm. The Turbo GT, as a high-performance SUV derived from the motorsport division, produces 485kW and 850Nm. But there’s more to the Turbo GT than just higher power and torque figures.

Notable standard features include 22-inch alloy wheels, carbon-ceramic brake rotors with 10-piston front and four-piston rear calipers, a lightweight carbon-fiber roof, matrix LED headlights, four-zone climate control, heated front and rear seats, and carbon-fiber accents throughout the interior and exterior. Options installed on our test car included a 12.3-inch passenger display ($2,380), Porsche logo lighting ($600), a body-color key fob that stores in a leather pouch ($780), an $890 air quality system, and a $1,140 Deep Sea Blue interior accent package.

You'd expect a super SUV of this caliber to have few, if any peers. You'd be wrong. There are a host of SUVs from rival manufacturers vying for buyers at this rare end of the market. The most obvious candidates include the Cayenne's broader VW group stablemates – the Lamborghini Urus S ($409,744) and the Bentley Bentayga V8 ($395,800) are both powered by the Turbo GT's 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8. There's also the Aston Martin DBX 707 and its 520kW/900Nm V8. It starts from $428,400. All prices before on-road costs. Key details 2025 Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT Price $371,700 plus on-road costs Color of test car Algarve Blue Options Air quality system – $890 GT interior package (with contrast stitching in Deep Sea Blue) – $0 Accent package Deep Sea Blue – $1140 Passenger display – $2860 Porsche logo LED courtesy lights – $600 Key painted in vehicle color with leather pouch – $780 Active lane keeping incl. intersection assist and emergency stop function – $0 Price as tested $377,970 plus on-road costs Drive-away price $412,641 (in NSW) Aston Martin DBX Rivals | Bentley Bentayga | Lamborghini Urus

The Cayenne Turbo GT is a large SUV, but it comes with a couple of differences – it only has four seats with the second row featuring individual chairs separated by a center console, and it's fashioned in the coupe style of SUV. And that means a sloping roof line. The are five-seat Cayennes in the range, and there are traditional wagon SUVs too, but for the Turbo GT model, it's four seats and coupe only. It still casts an imposing presence on the road, thanks in part to its aggressive stance capped off by those spunky 22-inch satin-finish Neodyne gold alloy wheels. Set against the Algarve Blue metallic paint of our test car, they look a million bucks.

The Cayenne Turbo GT's overall dimensions – 4932mm long, 1995mm wide, 1648mm tall and on a wheelbase of 2895mm – pay dividends in the cabin which is at once spacious, purposeful and premium. It's received a major overhaul for this update, bringing new tech and a new cabin treatment that apes its Porsche Taycan electric sedan sibling. It certainly doesn't feel like an SUV when you slide into those Race-Tex-accented sports seats, finished with plenty of contrasting Deep Sea Blue stitching. The nautical theme is carried throughout the cabin, Deep Sea Blue adorning almost every surface – on the dashboard, embroidered logos on the headrests, armrests, steering wheel and even the floor mats. It wouldn't be my first choice of color, but it does lift the ambience inside. The seats themselves are nicely bolstered, supremely comfortable, and hug you in all the right places and in the right way. They're power-adjustable eight ways, and that means finding your perfect driving position is a cinch. And believe me, you'll want to find your perfect driving position to best experience what the Turbo GT has on offer. The steering wheel, finished in Race-Tex and with a racy yellow band at 12 o'clock, feels nice and chunky and perfectly frames the Turbo GT's digital instrument cluster, which can be configured to show as much or as little information as you want . I liked the five-dial set-up, a nod to Porsches of old and their five analogue dials. Storage options up front are plentiful, with cupholders, a nice central storage bin, decently sized door pockets, and another storage bin in the center console.

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