No More Mr. Cayenne Guy: Spain’s Financial Crisis Kill Sales of Luxury Cars

When a couple is married, they vow to love and cherish each other for richer or poorer, in good or bad times.

Buying a car, especially an expensive one like a Porsche Cayenne, is kind like a marriage, in the sense that you get to live with it every day – except that you can have more than one and it doesn't talk back to you…

When things go bad, however, it’s not just couples that get a divorce: the ongoing financial crisis that has plagued Northern European countries is forcing owners to depart with their beloved vehicles because they simply can’t afford their expenses anymore.

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Hofele-Design to Debut Porsche Cayster GT670 at the 2011 Essen Motor Show

Next up on our motor show calendar is the largest tuning event in Europe, the 2011 Essen show in Germany, where Hofele-Design will introduce its own bespoke take on the Porsche Cayenne called the Cayster GT 670.

The package bundles a new aero body kit that includes wheel arch extensions, a rear apron with a diffuser, a front apron with a skid plate, side skirts, a roof spoiler and real carbon fiber trim bits for the body.

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Lumma Design Restyles the New Porsche Cayenne II

You didn’t think the German tuning industry was done with the second generation of the Porsche Cayenne, did you? Of course not. Say hello to the new Porsche Cayenne CLR 558 GT dressed up by none other than Lumma Design.

The German design house’s CLR 558 GT package upgrades the appearance of the luxury SUV with a new wide body aero kit. It comprises of a redesigned, two-tone front bumper with a plethora of LEDs and fog lights, a carbon Kevlar hood with air vents, high rising side skirts, wheel arch extensions, and a restyled rear bumper housing a diffuser and three central mounted exhaust tail pipes.

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The King of Overkill Captured in Canada by Carscoop Reader

If there was ever a prize for the crappiest application of decorative ornaments and decals of any sort on an automobile, this here Porsche Cayenne would win the contest hands down. I mean, just look at it…

We first showed you the Porsche Cayenne with the Ontario license plates last Friday, but today, Carscoop reader Jonathan Fernando spotted the car parked outside –wait for the drum roll- a….Dollarama store and didn’t waste the opportunity to snap a few photos.

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Decorative Overkill on a Porsche Cayenne SUV

While never mainstream, car decorations in the broadest sense of the word have always appealed to certain people. However, this is something you expect to see on an old, probably run down, conventional vehicle and not on a fairly new upscale model like the first generation Porsche Cayenne SUV….

The absurdly decorated German SUV with the Ontario license plates is covered in stickers, badges, chrome add-ons, reflectors and toys. We even managed to discover a few LED spotlights on the SUV's hood. Talk about overkill… More photos in the gallery after the jump.

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Porsche to Bring Historic Race Cars at Goodwood Festival of Speed

An array of historic Porsche race cars will make their way at this at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed that takes place in the UK from 2 to 4 July. The German automaker said that it will be bringing some of the victorious sports cars from the Targa Florio road race in Sicily, as well as the Porsche 917 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1970 win at Le Mans.

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Coachbuilder Teases Porsche Cayenne Coupe SUV Special

What you see here in these renderings isn't another conceptual design study but a teaser for a limited production coupe version of the Porsche Cayenne SUV from a UK-based tuning house called Merdad that is owned by someone who previously worked with Uwe Gemballa.

The tuning company says that buyers will have the option to base their car on either the current- or previous-generation Porsche Cayenne.

Aside from chopping off the rear doors, Medrad will also upgrade the Cayenne Turbo's 4.8-liter V8 boosting output by nearly 250 ponies to a total of 740-horsepower and allowing it to complete the 0 to 60 mph (96km/h) sprint in less than 4.4 seconds.

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Project Kahn Readying Tuning Mods for New Porsche Cayenne Turbo

Here's a teaser photo of Project Kahn's upcoming show car based on Porsche's new Cayenne Turbo. No news on whether it will have performance upgrades or just be a wheel deal.

Even in bone-stock form a 500-horsepower second-gen Turbo hits sixty (that's 96km/h) in 4.4 seconds, so don't complain. Usually I'm not a big fan of aftermarket wheels, but these Kahn units sure do look good.

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TechArt Styles-Up the New 2011 Porsche Cayenne

TechArt is unveiling the first of several new upgrades for the second generation of the Porsche Cayenne. For its first take on Stuttgart's SUV model, the German tuner has focused on the Cayenne's looks releasing a subtle optics package, full interior upgrades and custom wheels.

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