What should be the premium SUV? The most luxurious, fastest, most comfortable? Bse start with a little friendly game of boxing directly to the publisher. Excuse for a fight - the theme of "How can you compare BMW and Porsche?».

And why not, if both - the premium class, very fast and very luxurious? Yes, it will just be a sacrilege, because the Porsche - the top of the car Olympus. A BMW, therefore, is not so high flying? " No, not so. Why? Well, Porsche - the same vertex car Olympus ... So, clearly, stop fawning rolls his eyes. We will compare. Even if you have a mic in his hands vymeryat degree slope above sea level.

They are equal, but BMW LONG
If we were talking only about the functionality, the BMW X5 and Porsche Cayenne really can not be reduce to a duel-test. Because Porsche has reduced transmission and air suspension that allows to increase the ground clearance to 271 mm. But nobody would go on these cars on the track from the timber. Even if their owners go on a hunt to lost in a thicket hut hunter is likely to be laid asphalt. Maximum off-road, which expects the cars to life - the sand on the beach and a couple of shallow pools. So if we are going to compare them cross-country, from a practical point of view it makes no sense. Here a purely academic interest. For the premium is more important than others: acceleration, comfort, quality finishing, handling. And, of course, nuances, nuances, nuances. At such altitudes, no trifles ...
"Bavarian" generously gave the competitor a head start - its engine for 45 forces weaker. And it is in the top version of X5. In her rivals, we took the average complete set with a label Cayenne GTS.
Starting position of our athletes are ridiculously close. It is worth every one of them for about four million rubles. Accelerated to hundreds in 6.5 seconds (Cayenne, though more powerful, but at the same time heavier than about 120 kg). 4.8-liter engines, are located longitudinally. Six-speed automatic transmission. Simply twins! If you do not believe that Cayenne shorter (total length less than 74 mm and the base - 80 mm).
May be mentioned that the engine Cayenne used a proprietary technology of direct fuel injection, and it reaches capacity of 405 liters. with. But the BMW with its 355 hp. with. going as fast, and most importantly, eat a lot less: 15 versus 20 liters, according to our measurements.
Suspension of both vehicles are crammed with electronics. In Cayenne among the major tools - a system of suppression lists and Damper. Banks choke with active stabilizers, which, depending on steering angle and lateral acceleration creates stress that tends to align the body. Plus a special off-road mode: when downshifting stabilizers are displaced relative to each other and allow an increase in the angle of crossing axes.
"Bavarian", in turn, is armed with a control system for braking in the turns, as well as traction control system, DTS, allowing the increased wheel slip when the situation requires, in particular on the roads.

BAVARIAN DRUMS
Inside the cars finished in totally different ways. At X5 on the front panel plastic - very beautiful, expensive, high-quality. Plus, insert "under the tree." In Cayenne - ideally dressed and sewn almost hand skin. Plus, insert "under Aluminium. Architecture of the front panel of X5 - a high-tech style, and his rival - in the spirit of VW Golf. And so on. Perhaps it is the rare case when the ultra-modern approach seems solidly traditional. What's missing from the cabin Porsche? Whether thoroughness, whether for sport: it's not very well balanced between these two extremes.
True, the movement is different. Reseeding of the Cayenne in the X5, you can hear thunder: it rattles panels salon "Bavarian"! You may even want to insert Birushya or to make music louder. But let's be honest: these sensations appear exclusively on the contrast.

WE DO NOT Hitcher
So you will not hear the squeak of panels in the Porsche, but at high speed on the highway, to him importunate companion joins the aerodynamic noise. Literally stands to accelerate to 150 - and all the rest is gone. BMW's this is not observed. But his trajectory stability is lame: if the arc under the wheels hit the uneven pavement, this superkrossover significantly interchanges. And on the line similar symptoms. Alas, all of its excellent handling, honed over decades culture settings, suspension and steering is good only for the German autobahns. For long spans on our highways Porsche Cayenne - better. His suspension runs clearly regardless of the regime, whether it's "sport" or "comfort". And this despite the fact that, in general Porsche stiffer than BMW!
About the city commissioned to write sad. One should not begrudge those who rides a BMW X5 and Porsche Cayenne in Moscow. It's like a walk of a powerful dog on a leash in a public park: all the time to move jerkily. Passengers still unhappy: if you do not fasten them tightly, they beat alternately forehead and nape of the luxury interior. Brake to the floor - gas to the floor. And so all the time. But keep in mind - in X5 is still a lesser evil than his current rival. He was a little softer, a little smoother - how generally applicable to similar machines such terms.

With clarity SHARKS
Some grunting with pleasure when they will press the pedal to the sharp turn in a car with five-liter engine and price of $ 150,000. But there is no greater pleasure than to drive a car in the gravel pit. We consciously use the sand in my tests. Victory over the mud is too dependent on the type of tread or engine power, and the sand are all equal, especially on the road tires, which encased the majority of test machines.
Off-road BMW and Porsche have met so differently that fit to write his doctoral on features of their all-wheel drive. Gently, intelligently crisscrossing sandy slopes X5, rarely interfering with the driver strangled electronics motor. Moment on the wheels is distributed quickly and accurately, completely unnoticed. And this is without any locks, multi-disc clutch is already at the start of "tightened".
Cayenne GTS will not praise, then he runs clumsily. The machine comes in spurts: obeying the ASR system, pads hard hit on the brake discs. With such a "nix" from the Cayenne expect heroism, and he climbs through the trifling plot, as if straining. If it were not reduced transmission and air suspension, Porsche would be disgraced.
But BMW ... Tear him to the front bumper - and he did a lot of rogues! Just click on the stronger right foot. "Bavarians" not afraid of dirt. And yet they do not scare puncture. Stiff sidewall provides an opportunity to get to the service for 100 km at a speed not exceeding 70 km / h. On the Cayenne, sorry, this does not say. He has a stiff sidewall not, and instead of spare wheel in this case was the subwoofer. In case of trouble is an emergency kit - a bank with a gel. We have it all through a pierced nipple pumped wheel - has not helped. On the rim got to tire store, where zonked from what he saw the master showed us through-hole five on three centimeters from the inner side of the disc. Probably, it was mine.

OFF WHEELS AND BUMPER
Cayenne wonderful car. On the asphalt, he maneuvered with precision shark seems to be only Dun - and he will obey the diamond within. Beautiful and BMW, but only on a flat asphalt or soil. And to satisfy the demanding consumer in the off-road competitors can, if you withdraw from the first 21-inch wheels with low profile tires, and the second front bumper.
What to choose - Cayenne or X5? I put in a Porsche: it excels in any way. However, his celestial glory is still exaggerated.