The path of the Porsche Cayenne - courage, secrets and world records

With the Cayenne, Porsche entered the SUV segment almost two decades ago and opened up new markets. Now it has cracked the million mark. Time for a look back. "A stool stands better on three legs than on two." Hans-Jürgen Wöhler quotes his predecessor and leans back for a little trip back in time. Until recently, he was head of the SUV series. The two stool legs are symbolized by the Porsche 911 and Boxster models, which already existed in the 1990s. The end of the decade marks the conceptual birth of the Cayenne. A few years later, in 2002, Porsche presents the company's first SUV to the world public. 18 years later, the 1,000,000th Cayenne rolls off the production line in Bratislava, Slovakia. A GTS in crimson red, delivered to a German customer. The Cayenne is the epitome of an SUV, has shaped the entire segment, set standards time and again, and surpassed itself. It has brought the company out of the crisis, taken on a pioneering role in hybridization, and set records. With the Cayenne, Porsche gained in size and earning power. To this day, this SUV stands for the company's success story.