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Our 2019 Porsche Cayenne Hits a Rough Patch K.C. Colwell © Michael Simari - Car and Driver At the 32,000-mile mark, a clunky transmission and some unfortunate mishaps have marred our Cayenne ownership experience. 30,000-Mile Update At our last checkup, our long-term Cayenne was the perfect patient. Only a certified quack in desperate need of cash could have found something fundamentally wrong with our Porsche SUV. Yet, while we have yet to encounter a serious problem with it, a few smaller concerns have crept up in recent months. The most alarming issue is the unbecoming low-speed behavior of its automatic transmission. Although it hasn t been helped by Michigan s frigid winter weather, the clunky, jerky downshifts and stop-start driveline jolts that we ve experienced recently are so uncharacteristic of its ZF 8HP eight-speed gearbox that one misinformed editor wrongly jabbed Porsche for not fitting the Cayenne with the ZF unit. This is somewhat understanda

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