Porsche Cayenne Cayenne, 955/957
A genuinely fast large SUV that handles far better than its weight should allow. Every part of it was engineered without much thought for what it would cost to replace.
Overview
The 955/957 is the SUV Porsche Cayenne, built 2002–2010 and facelifted in 2007. 2 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €5,500–€26,150, and 1 of the 2 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The cheapest way in is the 3.2 V6 M02-2Y from €7,250, while the 3.0 TDI CASA is the lowest-risk engine at €15,000, so which engine you buy matters more here than which year. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.
Porsche Cayenne SUV (955/957) · photo Porsche Cayenne (955) Washington DC Metro Area, USA by OWS Photography · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
| Body style | SUV | Production | 2002–2010 |
| Platform siblings | sold in this body only | Facelift (LCI) | 2007 |
Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 2002–2006
The 1 variants sold before the 2007 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 V6 | M02-2Y | petrol | 2003–2006 | 250 PS | 310 Nm | R4 | 2 | €5,500–€14,000 | €7,250 | Caution |
Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 2007–2010
The 2 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.
2 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.
Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →
Model-year availability
Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.
Rating map, price against risk
Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.
Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.
Prices across the range
Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.
Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. S / GTS / Turbo cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.
Every standard engine · cheapest first · 3.0 TDI CASA highlighted as best value
at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile
Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these
Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.
Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 2 times: S / GTS / Turbo cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.
Buying summary
Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.
Best value: 3.0 V6 diesel from 2009, which is quick enough and won't drink like the petrols. The 3.2 V6 is the cheapest to buy and the slowest, and it's the one most likely to have been neglected. Check the air suspension at all heights if the car has it, since the compressor and struts are among the dearest items here. So read the folder before you drive the car, because a Cayenne without documented maintenance is a liability rather than a bargain.
Cheapest and dearest in this chassis
The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.