Hold on for this piece of information. 2011 Porsche Cayenne seems to be in a hurry to come out of the closet.

Just a couple of months before its planned unveiling at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show, this 2011 Porsche Cayenne which shares the ladder-frame with that of the Volkswagen Touareg, has been described in the German press after a private introduction to the German press on Dec 15.

As per the official information that we have gathered from Porsche, 2011 Porsche Cayenne will come in three engine options, a turbocharged, 500 bhp, 4.8 L V8, a 400-hp 4.8-liter V8 and a 300-hp 3.6-liter V6. So what’s new in the 2011 Porsche Cayenne? The 2011 edition Cayenne comes with improved fuel efficient engines and has shed its unwanted flab. Read 10 per cent of the weight reduced compared to the current Cayenne. Diesel and Hybrid versions of the same, though is planned will not make inroads to US of A.

There will be a successor to the recently introduced Cayenne diesel model with a turbocharged, 240-bhp 3.9-liter common-rail diesel seen in the diesel version of the 2010 Audi Q7.

In addition, the Porsche Cayenne will also use the Hybrid power train adopted for the forthcoming Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid, which combines an Audi-engineered combination of a supercharged 330-hp 3.0-liter V6 with a 47-hp electric motor powered by a lithium-ion battery pack. But Volkswagen has not yet planned any of these to American market.

All the Cayennes will come with an eight-speed automatic transmission while the European models will incorporate the automatic start-stop feature. This 2011 Cayenne will lack the gene it always flaunted proudly; off-roading capacities since the low-speed transfer case will be deleted making the Cayenne a pure-on-road vehicle. Blasphemy, you screech? Yes I understand, we in Carazoo.com are equally shocked.

Well Porsche compensates the absence of off-roadability with its new fuel-efficient engines. Porsche claims to have reduced the fuel-consumption up to 23 per cent in their gasoline-powered engines. Porsche also claims that the new Cayenne Hybrid will achieve 28.7 mpg on the European driving cycle, plus it will meet the European standard for C02 emissions of 200 gm/kilometer, which will significantly reduce its tax burden and thus increase sales.

Porsche seems to have hit the gym to cut out the unnecessary flab it had all these years to get back in shape.
The 2011 Cayenne loses 10 per cent of its current weight with the Cayenne S having shed an impressive 396 pounds to weigh just 4,553 pounds. Even so, Porsche says the Cayenne includes more than 154 pounds of assorted new features.

On which diet did Porsche go to achieve this super figure, you might ask? Well, this dramatic reduction in weight has been achieved through a regime of quick thinking exercises. These exercises include a new production process for the doors that saves 86 pounds, the deletion of the two-speed transfer case and an increased number of aluminum chassis components which shaves a further 146 pounds. This new generation Cayenne also combines a chassis with high-strength steel with aluminium hood, doors and a tailgate.

As with its predecessor, the second-generation Cayenne will be manufactured in a two-stage process that begins at Volkswagen’s plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, alongside the Audi Q7 and Volkswagen Touareg and then ends with final assembly at Porsche’s factory in Leipzig, Germany.

The first public outing for the 2011 Porsche Cayenne will still be at the Geneva auto show in March. North American sales are planned to begin in May 2010.