I’ll come clean straight away. I have never liked the look of Porsche’s 4×4 - not one little bit. A VW Touareg with the bonnet of a Porsche 911 grafted on is how it appears to me. A million miles from Porsche’s ‘true’ cars of the 911, Boxster and Cayman it’s launch in 2002 was a cynical attempt to exploit the Porsche badge and would never sell, I told myself.

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