ENCO starts their press release by informing us of the "Exklusive" nature of their customization. Whatever. So they can't spell their name properly. We've seen worse errors of translation and spelling. So they're called "ENCO Exklusive." Anyway.

The ENCO Gladiator is what we like to call the anti-sleeper, loudly proclaiming its additional 190 HP of grunt for all the world by way of flashy 23" wheels, a gaudy front end, revised rear fascia and huge fender flares. And just in case you're prone to forgetting the performance capabilities of the vehicle you're riding in, the Gladiator's been lavished with carbon fiber all over the cabin including four Porsche 911 GT3 seats, as well as a complete red roll cage. Just what we've always wanted in a luxe-sport SUV, a roll cage to clamber over.

The gaudy stuff is made up with some pretty ridiculous gear though, 12-piston calipers up front clamp down on 16.1 inch rotors. Necessary considering that twin turbo V8 gets bigger snails, freer flowing catalysts, new exhaust system and other modifications for a total delivery of 690 HP and 626 lb-ft of torque, capable of rocketing the big brute from 0-62 MPH in 4.5 seconds.

What you get for your hard-earned Euro is a widebody kit over bigger wheels and an all new nose which apparently took eight months to develop. Somehow. It's complete with halo headlights and though the Balrog technically has no performance upgrades, it's supposedly a bit quicker due to improved intercooling and brake cooling. Whatever. We think the only thing it needs is more fiery whip, or perhaps just more fire. We need more spaces in the Ten Ugliest Custom Porsche Cayennes list.
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Despite being mean, fast creampuffs, these over-tuned SUVs suffer from bad paint jobs, questionable materials, unruly body kits or some mixture of all the above. Click "next" to see what the world of spicy tuned Cayennes has to offer.

10.) TECHART Cayenne
Country Of Origin: Switzerland
Theme: Cheshire Cat
What Makes It Awful: The body kit on this Cayenne makes the lumbering wagon look more like a DTM machine — albeit one with a giant, stupid grin and mascara.

9.) Edo Competition
Country Of Origin: Germany
Theme: School Bus
What Makes It Awful: We're not sure where the idea for combining a school bus with the Porsche Cayenne came from, but at least the underlying vehicle is quick enough to outrun the ugly.

8.) Status Design Porsche Cayenne
Country Of Origin: Russia
Theme: First Generation Cylon
What Makes It Awful: In addition to looking like some sort of scary cyber bug, the Russian company takes the already questionable Porsche Cayenne dimensions and adds two sets of scoops and a set if wings.

7.) RUF Dakara
Country Of Origin: Germany
Theme: Porsche 911
What Makes It Awful: Despite being a sales success, many Porschephiles feel the Cayenne is not truly a Porsche. For them, RUF has added the 993 911-style headlights to create a more Porsche-like look. It makes us think less of a Porsche and more of this dream we had involving us being mowed down by an angry dragonfly.

6.) BYD T6
Country Of Origin: China
Theme: Chinese Clone
What Makes It Awful: The Porsche Cayenne is popular around the world, but not everyone can afford one. Thus the BYD T6, a Chinese knockoff, is similar to the Porsche but offers only the power of a tiny 2.0-liter fourbanger.

5.) HAMANN Cyclone
Country Of Origin: Germany
Theme: Snakeskin
What Makes It Awful: As if the M5-type front end wasn't strange enough on the big SUV, when you get on the inside many of the surfaces have been refinished with snakeskin. Seriously. We want these monkey fighting snakes off this monday-to-friday Porsche!

4.) SpeedART Titan BTR 550
Country Of Origin: Germany
Theme: Autobahn Beefster
What Makes It Awful: All efforts Porsche took to create a svelte SUV are thrown out window and what's left is an SUV that looks beefier than a Jersey heifer.

3.) Mansory Chopster
Country Of Origin: Germany
Theme: Bentley On Acid
What Makes It Awful: Luxury car tuner Mansory turns to the Cayenne but doesn't bring with them the usual style and design enthusiasm. For this Porsche there's a 2.3-inch chopped roof, wide-as-William Perry body, and raw carbon fiber body panels offset with a wide orange stripe. It looks like a prop for an especially awful science fiction movie.

2.) The Tourayenne
Country Of Origin: Russia
Theme: Yellow Submarine
What Makes It Awful: We've yet to determine if this is a Porsche Cayenne or the similarly-platformed VW Touareg with some Porsche upgrades. Either way, it's a nightmare one-off with garish yellow paint and an escape hatch out back.

1.) DC Design Two-Door Cayenne
Country Of Origin: India
Theme: Hot Hatch
What Makes It Awful: From the strange creasing around the body to the missing set of doors, this three-door Porsche makes us feel much better about the five-door Cayenne.

The offerings from Mansory just seem to get curiouser and curiouser, this one balances curious and strangely aggressive styling. Most of the original body has been replaced by raw carbon fiber, including the hood, fenders, door skin, side skirts and spoiler with a new carbon fiber nose and hiney piece. It's not all wild bodywork though, the thing's got some performance chops too with new turbos hanging off the V8 and massaged programming good for 710 HP and 663 lb-ft of torque, it stops too with massive 16.5 inch brakes up front and 14.7 inches at the rear. The interior gets draped in carbon fiber and leather as well, but that's just gilding the madness lily. We think Mansory might do well to just rename itself "We're really flippin' crazy." [FancyTuning]

Starting with the missile-equipped nose, which looks like a cross between a Ferrari Enzo and an original BSG Cylon, this Cayenne promises to be a stand-out in a country full of awkward vehicles. The addition of not one, but two, side scoops isn't outrageous for this type of vehicle, but there's little precedence for the C-pillar wings other than the Bertone Mantide. This is still a work in progress, which means there's still time to destroy it before it replicates. It's hideous to us, but sure to be a big hit among the Moscow oil oligarch crowd. [CarScoop via Carmods.ru]

A year ago something like this would have surprised the hell out of us, but we've now become so accustomed to Chinese knock-off clones that we hardly blinked when this story came across our desk. The Porsche Cayenne has been enjoying wild success in the Chinese market which has caused BYD, copier of all things near and far, to begin development of their very own home-market version if you are to believe this scanned image from ClubBYDAuto. Although we spent a month in China, our Chinese reading skills are still heavily lacking, but if you were to believe the scanned brochure page, the BYD T6 will arrive in September of 2010 and carry an, as yet, unknown 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine. Looks like BYD's trying to compete with the other Euro-lux Chinese BMW X5 clone, the Shuanghuan CEO as if their BYD B8 Mercedes SL rip wasn't enough. Uh-hem... good luck with that. [via autoblog.nl]

London’s Chelsea has, as opposed to New York’s version, little to do with alternative forms of human sexuality and a lot to do with conspicuous displays of consumption. Chief amongst them is the public use of large cars, especially SUV’s: hence the term Chelsea Tractor for these vehicles.

The typical Chelsea Tractor is the Range Rover. While Jeremy Clarkson has argued about its merits as the perfect city vehicle—citing “when you put money in a meter, you rent an entire parking bay, so you may as well use all of it”—such a monolithic hunk of a car is a rather poor choice for Central London’s narrow and cramped streets.

More troublesome than even the Range Rover is the widespread use of Porsche Cayennes, for the simple fact that while Range Rovers are great looking cars with their butch British looks, the Cayenne is a eyesore. One night, a city has even displayed an example in stretch limo form, which I fortunately did not photograph, but you get the idea.

Aside from the eponymous tractors, another major feature of Chelsea is its floral diversity. Every square foot of land not covered with Range Rovers, Cayennes or buildings has flowers sprouting in lush abandon. Random street corner parks are covered in thick swaths of wildlife and restaurant windows are planted with masses of tulips.

Which are excellent weapons against Porsche Cayennes. One only needs a photographic lens with a mild zoom, a wide aperture and the focus set to as near as possible to blot every single Cayenne into an aesthetically pleasing smudge. Observe—and reproduce (90mm, f/2.4, focused to 0.9'), at will:

Apparently the first car, a TechArt-tuned Cayenne full of businessmen on their way to lunch shared the license plate digits 177 with the violent criminals. We're guessing those flash bangs did a lot of damage to the pricey Porsche. [via GTSPIRIT]

The Porsche Cayenne GTS Design Edition 3 comes matched with a powerful 405 horsepower 4.8-liter V8 paired to a six-speed Tiptronic S transmission, helping to launch the sporty SUV to 60 mph in just 6.5 seconds with a top speed of 156 MPH. To help fly under the radar the Cayenne has been dipped in a satin-like finish called Lava Grey Metallic, adorned with triple racing stripes down the center, a matching door stripe on the side with Porsche Design script and 21-inch SportPlus color-matched wheels. This Cayenne definitely looks the part.

As with past Porsche Design models, Porsche is offering a special, limited edition Type P'6612 chronograph watch and a matching set of luggage. Following the Cayman S Porsche Design Edition 1 and the Boxster S Porsche Design Edition 2, the Cayenne GTS Porsche Design Edition 3 will be limited to 1000 units worldwide and will be available for order in May for roughly $94,694.

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Rather than merge the Cayenne and the 911, as with the RUF Dakara, it appears the next gen Cayenne is going to be a gentle evolution of the current design. If these taillights aren't designed to throw spies off the scent, expect more Panamera in your Cayenne.

These photos came via the Burlapp Cars page, so we can only guess at the original source.

Scheduled to go on sale in the first half of next year, think of the Transsyberia as a woefully out-of-touch end-of-production special for the current Cayenne, due to be replaced by a new 2010 Porsche Cayenne later that year. [Motor Authority]

THREE PORSCHE FIRSTS TO BE SHOWN AT THE GREATER NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW

World's first 300+hp Boxster, world's first 400+hp naturally aspirated Cayenne, world's first 500+hp 911: all in the Porsche stand at the Javits Center

New York, March 17, 2008 - In 2003, many pundits speculated that Porsche's move into the Sport Utility field would herald the end of the brand and the sports cars with which its name is synonymous. This year's press day's display at the 2008 Greater New York International Auto Show proves once and for all that every drop of that sports car DNA flows strong through the veins of every vehicle Porsche makes, today and in the future.

In 1960, Porsche earned its special place in motorsports history when the relatively small displacement Type 718 RS 60 Spyder took Porsche's very first International endurance win at the 12 Hours of Sebring. Overnight, Porsche became "The Giant Killer" having knocked off its bigger-bore, higher horsepower competition, including several factory Ferrari, Maserati.

To pay homage to that "Giant Killer," Porsche will introduce the Limited Edition Boxster RS60. With over 300 horsepower and a number of special "Boxster RS60" features, this commemorative sports car promises to capture the legacy of its forefathers in a package you can drive everyday.

Since the first Cayenne was introduced in 2003, Porsche has worked tirelessly to improve the breed. The latest of the new generation Cayennes is the 405 hp GTS. This vehicle proves that once again, Porsche has elevated the standard by which all other SUVs will be be judged. The Porsche Cayenne GTS, which has been called "the best handling SUV in the world," will be on display with its Porsche siblings.

For those who continue to insist in the face of overwhelming facts that Porsche has lost its focus on its core business, sports cars, Porsche will be displaying the ultimate 911 - the 530 horsepower, 505 lb. ft. of torque, 200+ mph Porsche 911 GT2. The GT2 demonstrates how Porsche is continuing to refine, improve and invest in its core sports car business.

In 2007, the Porsche RS Spyder proved once again that Porsche's heritage as a giant killer is alive and well. The Penske Team went to battle against the previously all-dominating Audi LMP1s with a lighter, more nimble, more fuel efficient, smaller displacement LMP2 car. The results will stand as one of the most spectacular seasons of racing seen in North America in decades. Taking 11 of 12 class victories and a stunning eight overall victories, Porsche once again demonstrated its technological prowess and reinforced its reputation for winning.

Last weekend, the RS Spyder once again proved the name "giant killer" remains appropriate by not only winning its class at Sebring, but winning the overall victory over more powerful competition in America's most famous sports car race. The 2008 Porsche RS Spyder will be on display at the Porsche booth for the duration of the Greater New York International Auto Show.

The Limited Edition Boxster RS 60, Cayenne GTS, 911 GT2 and the RS Spyder are currently on sale in the United States with a base price of $64,900, $69,300, $191,700 and $1,500,000 respectively.

Porsche Cars North America, Inc., based in Atlanta, GA, and, Porsche Cars Canada, Ltd., based in Mississauga, Ontario, are the two importers of Porsche sports cars and Cayenne sport utility vehicles for the United States and Canada respectively. Each is a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Dr. Ing.h.c. F. Porsche AG. Combined, these two subsidiaries employ approximately 250 people who provide Porsche vehicles, parts, service, marketing and training for 200 U.S. and 12 Canadian dealers. They, in turn, provide Porsche owners with best-in-class service.