Sibling Rivalry: Both Porsche And Bentley Aiming For Title Of Fastest SUV

Volkswagen Group is a company which at times looks a bit top heavy. With so many different brands all wanting to offer the fastest and most luxurious versions of different types of vehicles, the company's biggest competition is frequently itself. This has literally been the case in motorsports at several points, but now it seems that Porsche and Bentley are both aiming for the title of fastest SUV. This seems to have started with Porsche's unveiling of a new Cayenne Turbo S in Detroit.
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TheSteve - 1/21/2015 2:34:34 PM

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The whole thing seems rather silly to me. Aspiring to be the fastest SUV is like aiming to be the fastest minivan or fastest school bus :-/

MDarringer - 1/21/2015 8:00:51 PM

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Or the Kardashian with with biggest lard butt.

Sciros - 1/21/2015 2:45:35 PM

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Chrysler will just jam the 707hp Hellcat engine into a Grand Cherokee SRT or something silly and put the widest, stickiest, least-SUV tires on it ever and leave it at that.

MDarringer - 1/21/2015 8:00:23 PM

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This points to how VWAG (1) is the new "old" GM and (2) VWAG will implode. The Cayenne can be the fastest VW Toefungus, but what about the coming Lamborghini Urus? The Bentley should in no way be the fastest, but instead the most sumptuous.

JDMUSMuscle - 1/22/2015 7:10:39 AM

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Matt, I told you, that your inferiority complex is something that we all are aware of.

If VW is the new GM, then Bentley, Audi, Porsche and Bugatti should be suffering in terms of sales. Are they?

Or is GM? No one can honestly be the new GM, because GM, Ford and Chrysler are some of the biggest losers in all of the industries.

And mainly most of the losers are the American companies, too. It's interesting how Apple has become like a General Motors, making the same crap every year until there is no longer any more demand. Microsoft is failing in pretty much everything nowadays, and honestly,

it's pretty funny how, the stories of the American companies or anything American usually are associated with failures. And no success.

MDarringer - 1/22/2015 8:58:00 AM

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VWAG's profit per vehicle is precipitously LOWER than Toyota. GM had volume in the 70s and 80s but they gradually imploded killing Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Saturn, and Hummer.

JDMUSMuscle - 1/22/2015 4:36:46 PM

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And no one is really comparing VW to Toyota. Even though VW says they want to beat Toyota and such.

And besides, VW and Toyota both are completely different. Toyota focuses more on cheap cars, when VW focuses more on premium-luxury cars. It is a common sense that the one who sells cheap, reliable cars will do better in this.

scenicbyway12 - 1/21/2015 9:09:29 PM

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Aren't they going to be basically the same car underneath?

chewy - 1/22/2015 2:03:52 AM

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The Bentley is on a brand new platform and the Urus (it if happens) is too. The Cayenne will have to wait another generation to join them. All three are different ways of selling 150k+ SUVs. The Cayenne is mainly under 100k option with some special editions reaching higher, the Bentley is the luxury option and the possible Lamborghini as the hyper performance option. 150k+ SUV arena is uncharted territory for everyone and if all three can play there then that's a big win for each brand and VWAG overall.

momentofsurrender - 1/22/2015 2:52:49 AM

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When will Bentley be on brand new platform?

chewy - 1/22/2015 5:13:18 AM

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The Bentayga should be on the latest SUV platform and might be relatively light for a Bentley.