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The Porsche Cayenne Turbo Coupe GT is not your ordinary SUV or Cayenne, for that matter. Revealed in June, the Cayenne Turbo GT smashed the Nurburgring record  with a time of 7:38.9 with Lars Kern at the helm. It is Porsche’s most powerful non-hybrid SUV to date with 631 horsepower on tap and performance figures that match. We’re talking a 0-60 mph time of 3.1 seconds, a quarter-mile sprint of 11.6 seconds, and a 186 mph top speed. Sold only as a coupe variant, this Cayenne is aimed squarely at enthusiasts and Porsche agrees.

Speaking to Autocar, the German automaker’s sales and marketing chief, Dirk Britzen, acknowledged this.

“We’re speaking and appealing to a very specific target group of customers with this car. Customers who are quite conscious and deliberate, wanting to go for the most powerful Cayenne. They know what they’re buying.”

Equally important, those buyers aren’t necessarily collectors/investors. “That customership is, on average, willing and able to give the car a spin on the race track.” Porsche didn’t say how many examples are planned but we get the impression it’ll build as many as demand calls for. Like the “regular” Cayenne Turbo, the Turbo GT is powered by a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8. Only this time engineers have added a new crankshaft, connecting rods, pistons, torsional dampers, and timing chains to help achieve an additional 100 hp.

Source carbuzz.com