The Porsche Cayenne Transsyberia is a Future Million Dollar Collectible

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The Porsche Cayenne Transsyberia is a future collectible you need to buy right now. This limited edition SUV was only sold for one year in 2010 and offers Porsche lovers the chance to own a very rad SUV.

In 2007 Porsche entered the grueling 4,400-mile Transsiberian Rally using a purpose-built Cayenne racer. Porsche's Cayenne was able to traverse some of Russia’s most intense terrain and started a dynasty of rally success with Porsche winning the rally three years in a row. To celebrate this achievement Porsche built 600 special editions Cayenne Transsyberias so you'd never forget.

The Cayenne Transsiberian is more than just an SUV with orange wheels and some decals. Developed at the legendary Weissach Porsche Center, home of Porsche's most potent supercars and 911s, engineers got to work on the pedestrian Cayenne.

Fitted with Porsche's active air suspension, stainless steel skid plates, and off-road lights as a no-cost option, the Cayenne Transsyberia was a serious package. The Transsyberia also used Porsche's full time four wheel drive system tuned to send 62% of the SUV's torque to the rear wheels.

To give the SUV more offroad cred, Porsche added rock rails, a locking rear diff, a strengthened engine bay guard, and skid plates for the fuel tank and rear end. These features meant the Cayenne Transybria owners could embarrass owners of normal Cayennes with soft underbelly and normal colored wheels.

Today the SUV is king but when Porsche gave us the Transsyberia in 2010 they were a mere distraction from the sedans that dominated car sales. These 600 Cayenne Transsyberias were built long before the likes of Lamborghini or Rolls Royce built SUVs and come from a time when SUVs were more than just taller cars with hatches.

With all of these special options and features, the Cayenne Transsyberia was a serious SUV. The sadly only 600 Transsyberias were built making them very hard to find. Typically good examples with the offroad package sell for around $40,000, a small price to pay for a future collectible.

Sure SUVs aren't the most interesting vehicles are the road but when you turn them into a performance-focused vehicle they more than makeup for their boring starting point.

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Comments (4)

  • It was a great idea by Porsche but it’s a just shame they had to build it off the ugliest generation of the Cayenne, if it was the model from later years this thing would appreciate far better. Definitely not in the millions though.

      2 years ago
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