CarbonTC
04-23-2008, 10:21 PM
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What we have here are two vehicles not particularly high on the Sierra Club's Christmas-card list. The Infiniti FX and the Porsche Cayenne, both hatched in 2003, are the original hardcore performance utes — no third rows of seats here, no hybrid drivetrains (yet), no cute little puffs of water-vapor tailpipe emissions through which cartoon bunnies may frolic. Their social acceptability has fallen as gas prices have risen, and they're probably in danger of becoming an agenda item on the next round of Kyoto protocols.
But here's the thing: As much as we're down on the profligate consumption of oil, these sub-20-mpg'ers are among the only big-n-tall vehicles we really want to drive hard, two of the few that don't handle like cardboard boxes. The FX50 ($55,000, est.) and the Cayenne S ($57,900) are sports cars with a bad case of gigantism, under whose elephantine husks pulse the reflexes of mice. And though painted with the same brush by SUV-haters, these two vehicles present two distinct takes on the performance bruiser...
Story:
http://www.motivemag.com/pub/feature/versus/Motive_Versus_Infiniti_FX50_versus_Porsche_Cayenne _S.shtml
Specs:
http://www.motivemag.com/pub/feature/specs/Motive_Versus_Infiniti_FX50_versus_Porsche_Cayenne _S_-_Specs.shtml
What we have here are two vehicles not particularly high on the Sierra Club's Christmas-card list. The Infiniti FX and the Porsche Cayenne, both hatched in 2003, are the original hardcore performance utes — no third rows of seats here, no hybrid drivetrains (yet), no cute little puffs of water-vapor tailpipe emissions through which cartoon bunnies may frolic. Their social acceptability has fallen as gas prices have risen, and they're probably in danger of becoming an agenda item on the next round of Kyoto protocols.
But here's the thing: As much as we're down on the profligate consumption of oil, these sub-20-mpg'ers are among the only big-n-tall vehicles we really want to drive hard, two of the few that don't handle like cardboard boxes. The FX50 ($55,000, est.) and the Cayenne S ($57,900) are sports cars with a bad case of gigantism, under whose elephantine husks pulse the reflexes of mice. And though painted with the same brush by SUV-haters, these two vehicles present two distinct takes on the performance bruiser...
Story:
http://www.motivemag.com/pub/feature/versus/Motive_Versus_Infiniti_FX50_versus_Porsche_Cayenne _S.shtml
Specs:
http://www.motivemag.com/pub/feature/specs/Motive_Versus_Infiniti_FX50_versus_Porsche_Cayenne _S_-_Specs.shtml