Back in 2003 I went to drive a new kind of Porsche. Writing in a Sunday newspaper I concluded: “Porsche has failed with the Cayenne. By any of its own terms of reference, be it that a car should look, feel or drive like a Porsche, it has missed by a mile. Porsche’s gamble is that, to its customers, this won’t matter.”
The gamble paid off like few since a bloke won $39.7m on a single pull of a lever on a slot machine in the Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas that very same year. In short order the Cayenne
