Sorry Marc, but I'm going to have to sit on Sam's side of the aisle on this one, too: The stick shift in the Cayenne GTS is very un-Porsche, with long throws and imprecise action. Yet it's still pretty fun to bang through the trucky gears, easily heel-and-toeing and leaving beautiful, high-strung V-8 music in your wake. However, I can imagine that this particular stick-shift experience could get pretty tedious after a couple weeks of ownership...
With its rear spoiler, fender flares, and aggressive stance, the GTS is the best-looking Cayenne of the bunch, in my opinion. Sharing my opinion was some dude in a crappy Ford Aspire, who gave me an approving head nod after I burbled by his car.
Rusty Blackwell, Copy Editor