Ever since the advent of the Sports Utility Vehicle, naysayers have queued up to stick the boot into these jacked-up family run-arounds. Despite featuring chunky cladding and a raised ride height; the majority are generally useless at tackling the muddy stuff and serve mainly to clog up the streets during the school run. But over time,manufactures have honed the recipe and created all manner of compact crossovers (see our Best SUVs list) that look good, drive well and can actually go off road, convincing many family hatchback owners to trade in their motors for something taller and more rugged. Range Rover has the Evoque, Audi's Q3 is a pretty good all-rounder and BMW's X Series has proved popular but very little has come along that offers an all-round package quite as blisteringly quick as the Porsche Macan Turbo.
A lot of the criticism levelled at the bloated Cayenne surrounds its size, slightly awkward styling and the fact it doesn't handle like a product from a company with decades of racing experience. The Porsche Macan Turbo does, its shorter wheelbase and race-ready suspension tweaking ensure it can take corners at mind-altering speeds. That's not to say it is overly harsh on cracked road surfaces, either. In fact, avoid thumbing the Sport button and the Macan Turbo cruises like an executive saloon.
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