Porsche never made a Cayenne with a bed, so someone in New Zealand decided to fix that. Have you ever wanted a Porsche pickup truck? Not a rally support vehicle or some half-serious off-road concept, but an actual Porsche with a cargo bed hanging off the stern. Probably not. Porsche certainly never did, either. But somewhere in New Zealand, somebody looked at a second-generation Cayenne diesel, and decided Stuttgart's SUV needed a full pickup conversion.
So they built this. Listed for sale in Christchurch for $49,995 NZD (approximately $29,275 USD), this 2011 Cayenne has undergone the sort of transformation usually reserved for fever dreams and late-night forum threads. The listing claims more than $80,000 NZD was spent making the thing legal and certifying it for New Zealand roads. That's not a typo; Somebody spent sports car money turning an SUV into a one-off pickup.
View Price on AmazonImportantly, this doesn't appear to be a hack job. The rear half of the Cayenne has a fully reworked ute bed, and the rear of the cab appears nicely sealed off from the elements. The front half of the vehicle appears unchanged from its original form. This is exactly the type of project that looks so good that others think it was easier than it actually was.
Under the hood sits Porsche's 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6 producing around 240 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of torque in stock form, paired with an eight-speed automatic and all-wheel drive. That's actually a fairly sensible powertrain choice for something pretending to be a utility vehicle.
The rest of the spec sheet reads like a normal Cayenne. It has heated leather seats, navigation, parking sensors, a radar detector, climate control, memory seats, and a claimed full service history showing its work done during the 126,760 miles showing on the odometer.
Porsche itself has flirted with oddball body styles before; the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo existed, and the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo exists. The brand built the controversial first-generation Porsche Cayenne and survived, despite enthusiasts declaring the end of civilization. Still, a Porsche pickup still feels like a line nobody expected to cross. Then again, if the internet taught us anything, it's that if an automaker won't build the weird thing ... somebody else eventually will.
Source: roadandtrack.com
