Porsche celebrates 18 years, three generations, and a million units of the Cayenne Autoblog 12/10/2020 Ronan Glon
In 2002, Porsche snapped the public s opinion in half when it sent the first-generation Cayenne to compete in the then-new high-performance SUV segment. Its bet paid off, and it just manufactured the one millionth example.
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Built in Bratislava, Slovakia, the milestone car (shown above) is a GTS model painted in Carmine Red. Don t look for it in the company s official museum; it has already been delivered to a customer in Germany, so it might be cruising at 130 mph on the autobahn as you read this. Taking 18 years to build a million cars might not sound impressive, not when Ford sold nearly 900,000 units of the F-Series in 2019, but it s a significant achievement for a small company like Porsche that hasn t concerned itself with volume. Building the millionth 911 took 54 years.