BMW X6 xDrive30d vs. Porsche Cayenne Diesel

Forefront in the list of suspicious lumps: BMW X6 and Porsche Cayenne. Welfare effect of the two at first sight, definitely not.

This resource eater but something more economical to move forward, there is also diesel. So we have the BMW X6 xDrive30d and the Porsche Cayenne diesel can compete.

Body / interior

The X6 is a statement: Extremely powerful presence, the car body above the asphalt. The Bayer is 4.88 meters with eight centimeters long and 1.98 meters with five centimeters wider than the Cayenne. Only the height is 1.69 meters with a centimeter below the cars from Stuttgart. The roof of the Coupé-X6 provides for additional attention. You can see the X6 in its modernity, but his acting unscrupulously Design polarized. The owners are those "You-can-me-all-love and presence as a hostile confirmation feel.

Hold a regular Cayenne

The Cayenne diesel can be used with the extroverted exterior of the X6 not keep up - but that he also did not. Absolutely spectacular in the meantime a little bit in the aging Cayenne outfit is the diesel model of the six gasoline variants differ. The Cayenne lettering is black like the brake calipers and 17-inch wheels have a footwear range.


Old School

The Cayenne is also expected to as domestic Cayenne. After all he can against the X6 seats with five points - a quad configuration was reached only at the new Porsche Panamera ravish. The seats of the Cayenne are very comfortable, no trace of sportsmanship. Typical Porsche: the jumble of buttons around the little deep-seated Navi screen. From various VW models known, centered between the circular instruments seated multifunction display makes clear, however, because of their joy.

Because of the large, almost vertically sloping rear window, the Cayenne is much clearer than his challenger from Bavaria. In terms of gift processing, the two adversaries nothing - both are at the highest level.

Chassis / driving

The outfit of the monstrous X6 draws not only from its relatively small interior, even to the chassis of the Brocken nobody thinks. They have the engineers here, where special effort - the X6 should in any case, despite its 2.1 tonnes of live weight agile come along. And he's so agile: The X6 whisks around the curves, as are many smaller and lighter vehicles can hardly. The secret behind it: Its all-wheel drive as standard, not only distributes the force needed between the front and back but can also be the most kurvenäußere rear wheel speed, in order to improve the grip. Sorry Dauerärgernis and when maneuvering is to be interpreted against the planet-orbit-periodic turning circle of 12.8 meters.

A bit polterig

Although smaller than the X6, brings the Cayenne with approximately 2.3 tonnes of weight almost 200 kilograms on the scales. In terms of steering and brakes is with the X6 on the same high level, but the chassis can also be equipped with four-wheel drive Stuttgarter not keep - too often he rumbles on uneven across. Even at speeds beyond 200 km / h does the X6 sovereign than the Cayenne. Only when turning circle of Porsche ahead: 11.7 meters is 1.1 meters less than the BMW.

Engine / gearbox

The heart of our X6 represents a 3.0-liter diesel with 235 hp. Its maximum torque of 520 Newton meters at 2,000 rpm to. Gas, the engine under constant snarl good. Working Joyfully it sends the Bavarian plate bubble to travel. Maximum 210 km / h and there are even at this speed, the engine does not feel overburdened. And the pace is one hundred thick Bayer in 8.0 seconds.

According to the manufacturer, on average, walk 100 kilometers to 8.2 liters of fuel through the combustion chambers - in our test, it is 11.0 liters.


Cozy donor heart

What in a BMW almost a matter of course, is in a Porsche of a sensation: the availability of a diesel engine. But Porsche is too small for its own self-igniter to develop. Thus, we summarily a 3.0-liter Audi diesel caught by the Ingolstaedter for example, in her fat einklinken SUV called the Q7. With 240 hp engine makes five more horsepower than the BMW engine.

Also is the maximum torque of 550 Newton is 30 meters higher than the X6 and is also at 2,000 rpm are available. During operation, the diesel does not growl, he nails. The aggregate X6 is a little louder, but sounds of the Audi diesel is more diesel. And in terms of Antrittsfreudigkeit here is the Porsche behind the BMW back.

In 8.3 seconds, in 0.3 seconds slower than the BMW, the Porsche at 100 km / h, 214 km / h maximum speed are there. From the manufacturer average 9.3 liters per hundred kilometers are in our testing 12.0 liters - the Porsche that is consumed per 100 kilometers a liter more than the BMW.


The X6 provides his Hau-top design is a clear statement: I am new, I fell and I do not want everybody. Whether it is now more customers than be discouraged, the problem of BMW - the sales figures show that love, for example, the Italians, the X6 form. The only real shortcomings of Bavaria: The comparison to the external dimensions close interior, the lack of headroom in the rear and the selected poor clarity to the rear. The chassis of the X6, however, proves to be excellent, making the huge SUV a very agile vehicle. And the 235-horsepower diesel impresses with its sparkle to the final section.

The Porsche Cayenne Diesel is also a clear statement: No one will see that I am a diesel. So is the car outside and inside a classic Cayenne, but in terms of space and clarity, well ahead of the X6 is. When the landing gear can then use the Schwabe tangible and visible modern Bavaria not quite match the Audi foreign Heart makes its leisurely job is not quite as good as the self-ignition of Bavaria.

If the 11er Turbo on the "I-am-Porsche" scale at the top, so the Cayenne diesel sits at the other end. The BMW X6 xDrive30d has more feeling than the Porsche Cayenne Porsche diesel - which can not obscure the fact that this contest in a high league play: The Cayenne Diesel is still an exceptionally good car.