Andrew English Never far from controversy, the Cayenne was ridiculed as a Chelsea Tractor, an excessive SUV for well-heeled urbanites, at its launch in 2002. Yet it has since sold 1.5 million through three generations, savingPorsche. This fourth-generation is electric, although not everything running on batteries has been an unalloyed success for Porsche since the Taycan of 2019 or the Macan of 2024, with reports of dubious reliability and poor residual values.