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2026 Porsche Cayenne

Gas

Standard Sport Utility Vehicle 4WD
7 EPA-rated configurations
Data refreshed 2026-10-26

Safety Signal

92 / 100 from the NHTSA recall record

RecallsNHTSA campaigns 1

Complaintsnone reporting a crash, fire or injury 5

Crash ratingnot rated by NHTSA —

Fuel economybest combined, EPA 19 mpg

Starting MSRP13 trims · manufacturer $89,900

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

The 2026 Porsche Cayenne is sold in the U.S. as a gas large SUV with 7 EPA-rated configurations. The most efficient version, the Cayenne, is EPA-rated at 19 mpg combined. NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for this model year, which gives it a Safety Signal grade of A. Owners have filed 5 complaints, most often about the forward collision avoidance. Manufacturer pricing runs from $89,900 to $214,800 across 13 trims.

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Trims & pricing

Source: manufacturer press kitWhich trim should I buy? → Compare a trim →

Trim	Powertrain	Drive	MSRP	HP	Torque	Cargo (2nd row)	Wheels
Cayenne	Gas	AWD	$89,900	348 hp	368 lb-ft	26.9 cu-ft	20 in
Cayenne E-Hybrid	Plug-in hybrid	AWD	$103,100	300 hp	309 lb-ft	25.8 cu-ft	20 in
Cayenne S	Gas	AWD	$108,300	468 hp	442 lb-ft	26.9 cu-ft	20 in
Cayenne S E-Hybrid	Plug-in hybrid	AWD	$111,600	348 hp	368 lb-ft	24.3 cu-ft	20 in
Cayenne GTS	Gas	AWD	$132,400	493 hp	486 lb-ft	26.9 cu-ft	21 in
Cayenne Turbo E-Hybrid	Plug-in hybrid	AWD	$164,500	591 hp	590 lb-ft	22.8 cu-ft	21 in
Cayenne Coupe	Gas	AWD	$95,100	348 hp	368 lb-ft	23.8 cu-ft	20 in
Cayenne E-Hybrid Coupe	Plug-in hybrid	AWD	$107,300	300 hp	309 lb-ft	24.3 cu-ft	20 in
Cayenne S Coupe	Gas	AWD	$114,900	468 hp	442 lb-ft	23.8 cu-ft	20 in
Cayenne S E-Hybrid Coupe	Plug-in hybrid	AWD	$117,100	348 hp	368 lb-ft	23.3 cu-ft	21 in
Cayenne GTS Coupe	Gas	AWD	$137,100	493 hp	486 lb-ft	22.8 cu-ft	21 in
Cayenne Turbo E-Hybrid Coupe	Plug-in hybrid	AWD	$169,100	591 hp	590 lb-ft	22.8 cu-ft	21 in
Cayenne Turbo GT	Gas	AWD	$214,800	650 hp	626 lb-ft	25.8 cu-ft	22 in

MSRP excludes destination. Open a trim for the complete spec sheet and standard/optional equipment. Have the car in front of you? Decode its VIN to see which of these trims it is and what it was priced at.

Specs & fuel economy

Source: EPA fueleconomy.gov

Configuration	Powertrain	Drive	Engine / motor	City	Hwy	Comb	Annual fuel*
Cayenne	Gas	AWD	3.0L 6-cyl turbo	17	23	19	$4,350
Cayenne Coupe	Gas	AWD	3.0L 6-cyl turbo	17	23	19	$4,350
Cayenne GTS	Gas	AWD	4.0L 8-cyl turbo	15	22	18	$4,550
Cayenne GTS Coupe	Gas	AWD	4.0L 8-cyl turbo	16	22	18	$4,550
Cayenne S	Gas	AWD	4.0L 8-cyl turbo	16	21	18	$4,550
Cayenne S Coupe	Gas	AWD	4.0L 8-cyl turbo	16	21	18	$4,550
Cayenne Turbo GT	Gas	AWD	4.0L 8-cyl turbo	15	20	17	$4,850

*EPA estimate at 15,000 miles/year at EPA reference fuel and electricity prices. fueleconomy.gov record ids: 49604, 49605, 49933, 49934, 49930, 49931, 49932.

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Recalls (1)

Source: NHTSA recall database

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Fuel System, Gasoline

ASA9

177 vehicles 52% reported repaired

Problem Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Panamera, Cayenne, and 2025 Panamera E-Hybrid vehicles. The fasteners securing the high pressure fuel pump may not be tightened properly, resulting in a fuel leak. Risk A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire. Fix Dealers will inspect and tighten the screw connections and replace the high pressure fuel pump and fuel lines as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 19, 2025. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is ASA9. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning October 10, 2025.

Filed with NHTSADefect report PDF Owner letter PDF Remedy instructions PDF

NHTSA campaign 25V634000 reported Sep 23, 2025 Porsche Cars North America, Inc. the full filing, and every vehicle covered →

These are vehicle campaigns — the ones the automaker filed against this model. NHTSA also records equipment recalls, filed by a parts maker against a component (a tyre, a child seat, an aftermarket part), and those are not listed here or counted above. nhtsa.gov/recalls shows both for a VIN.

Whether any of this applies to one specific Cayenne

A campaign covers a build range, not a model year, so two identical-looking cars from 2026 can differ. Both of these check a VIN against the manufacturer’s own list, free, in about ten seconds. Porsche publishes its own lookup because federal rule 49 CFR 573.15 requires it to, and to keep it current to within seven days.

NHTSA VIN check →Porsche’s own VIN lookup →

Hear about a recall before the letter does

The manufacturer’s letter is the last step of a recall: it has up to 60 days after filing to mail owners, at the address on the registration. We email you the day NHTSA posts a recall on the 2026 Porsche Cayenne, with what to do next. Nothing else, ever — no newsletter, no marketing, one-click unsubscribe in every message.

Owner complaints

Source: NHTSA complaint database

5complaints filed

0 involved a crash · 0 a fire · 0 injuries · 0 deaths reported

3.2 per 10,000 built · Porsche reported 15,847 Cayenne built (its Early Warning production report to NHTSA)

Filed per year: 2026: 5

Most-cited components

Forward Collision Avoidance 7

Electrical System 2

Lane Departure 2

Vehicle Speed Control 1

Power Train 1

Back Over Prevention 1

In owners' own words

Filed with NHTSA by the people who own these cars, one per problem area. Quoted as written, with anything identifying removed.

The warning system continues to showing warnings and the Blind Spot and Adaptive Cruise Control render the car unsafe to drive. The other warnings has no impact of the functioning of the cars ability to be driven.

Forward Collision Avoidance Sep 24, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11766603

2026 Porsche Cayenne Coupe. The surround-view and rear backup camera system repeatedly fails. The screen goes completely black, including when shifting into reverse. The Coupe's shortened, sloped rear window creates major blind spots, so the driver depends on the cameras. When they fail, there is effectively no rear visibility.

Electrical System Oct 20, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11772320

The emergency braking system light and the adaptive control cruise control is not working in the warning. Lights are on from Dave that I’ve got it from day one January 2026

Forward Collision Avoidance Jun 19, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11745194

1. Driving Conditions & Baseline State I was operating my new 2026 Porsche Cayenne (current mileage approx. 717 miles) at highway speeds inside a tunnel near LAX. The vehicle was functioning normally under normal driving conditions until the incident occurred suddenly and without any prior warning signs. 2.

Forward Collision Avoidance Jun 4, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11742202

Complaint counts are raw owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects, and scale with how many were sold. Use them to spot patterns, not to rank.

Reported by Porsche itself: 1 death-or-injury claim on this model year in its quarterly Early Warning reports to NHTSA (49 CFR 579.21): 1 injured, as claimed, not verified — about 6.3 per 100,000 built. Every Cayenne model year, by year and system → Dated and by system, they are exhibit F of the defect dossier.

Crash ratings

Source: NHTSA NCAP

NHTSA has not published 5-Star crash ratings for this model year.

Service bulletins & campaigns

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications

Communicationsfiled with NHTSA 1,525

Most recentmanufacturer date 2026-09-24

Kindsas classified by NHTSA 1391 service bulletins, 102 others, 32 service campaigns

Most often about: Electrical System, Engine, Unknown Or Other, Structure, Power Train.

No. 96-26 Service bulletin
2026-09-24 · Structure — Body
Symptom-based workshop manual for Noises from Front Wiper Blade
No. 77-26-1 Service bulletin
2026-09-23 · Service Brakes
Technical Information for “Squealing” Brake Noises on the Front Brake During Braking. Note that this bulletin only applies to vehicles with carbon ceramic brakes (PCCB).
No. 90-26 Service bulletin
2026-09-23 · Structure — Body
Technical Information for Replacement Requirement for Rear Bumper Due to Deformation/Accident Damage
No. 31-26 Service bulletin
2026-09-22 · Power Train
Manufacturer's Certificate for Overview of Approved Porsche C40 Engine Oils
No. 30-26 Service bulletin
2026-09-22 · Engine
Manufacturer's Certificate for Overview of Approved Porsche C20 Engine Oils
No. 29-26 Service bulletin
2026-09-22 · Power Train
Manufacturer's Certificate for Overview of Approved Porsche C30 Engine Oils
SPTL2609 Service bulletin
2026-09-14 · Wheels
Special Tools and Equipment Information for alignment machines - Q3 2026 Software Spec Update Available
No. 86-26 Service bulletin
2026-09-09 · Electrical System
Technical Information for Vehicle Color in Front Display/Control Panel Wrong after Replacing Central Computer (PCM)

A service bulletin is the manufacturer telling its dealers how to diagnose or repair a known condition. It is not a recall, not a finding that the vehicle is defective, and the work is not automatically free — though a bulletin is often what a dealer works from when you describe a symptom, so quoting the document number can save a diagnosis. The count is every communication filed; the list shows the most recent, one entry per campaign, because a single campaign is usually filed as several documents on the same day. The summaries are NHTSA's; the full documents come from the manufacturer.

Cayenne by model year

all years, side by side →

Year Safety Recalls Complaints

2026 this page A 1 5 19 mpg 2025 B 2 6 22 mpg 2024 D 5 5 Do not drive 2023 B 2 5 19 mpg 2022 C 3 4 21 mpg 2021 F 7 21 21 mpg 2020 F 6 25 21 mpg 2019 F 8 47 21 mpg 2018 A 1 14 22 mpg 2017 B 2 19 22 mpg 2016 B 2 40 24 mpg

Common questions about the 2026 Cayenne

Source: EPA, NHTSA and manufacturer press kits

How much does the 2026 Porsche Cayenne cost?

Manufacturer pricing runs from $89,900 for the Cayenne AWD to $214,800 for the Cayenne Turbo GT AWD, across 13 trims. Those are MSRPs from the manufacturer's own press material; they exclude destination, options, taxes and whatever the dealer adds. Every trim and price is listed above.

Does the 2026 Porsche Cayenne have any recalls?

NHTSA has posted 1 recall campaign for the 2026 Porsche Cayenne. The most serious on file is 25V634000, covering Fuel System, Gasoline. Check your own VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; a recall applies to specific build ranges, not every car.

How safe is the 2026 Porsche Cayenne?

NHTSA has not published a crash-test rating for the 2026 Porsche Cayenne yet. On the recall record WhichTrim grades it A (92/100), which measures open and severe recalls rather than crash protection.

What is the fuel economy of the 2026 Porsche Cayenne?

Across the 7 EPA-rated configurations of the 2026 Porsche Cayenne, the best EPA combined figure is 19 mpg. Figures are the EPA's own, per configuration, and every one is listed above.

What do owners complain about on the 2026 Porsche Cayenne?

Owners have filed 5 complaints with NHTSA about the 2026 Porsche Cayenne, most often about forward collision avoidance, electrical system, lane departure. Complaints are unverified owner reports, so treat the pattern as a signal and the individual report as an anecdote.

Are there service bulletins for the 2026 Porsche Cayenne?

The manufacturer has filed 1525 service bulletins and related communications with NHTSA for the 2026 Porsche Cayenne, most often covering electrical system, engine, unknown or other. The most recent is dated 2026-09-24. A bulletin is not a recall: it is the repair procedure a manufacturer sends its dealers for a condition it knows about, and the work is not automatically paid for. It is still worth knowing — if the symptom matches, quoting the bulletin number at the service desk can save a diagnosis. The document numbers and summaries are listed above.

Which 2026 Porsche Cayenne trim is the best value?

$124,900 separates the cheapest of the 13 trims from the most expensive, so the answer depends on which of the differences you would actually use. Every trim has its own page here with the manufacturer's full specification and equipment list, plus a short summary of exactly what it adds over the base trim — worth reading before a dealer frames the walk-up for you. The trim-by-trim ladder shows what every step up costs and what it makes standard.

What we hold, and what an empty row means

Paid vehicle-history reports will not tell you the difference between “nothing happened to this car” and “we never received that record” — both of the big two say as much in their own help pages. Most of what is on this page comes from complete federal registers, so we can tell you which is which, row by row.

Data	Held	Source	What it covers — or what empty means
Fuel economy & configurations	7 configurations	EPA certification records	Every configuration the EPA certified for sale, with its own test figures.
Emission certificates	none	EPA emission certificates	The EPA published no certificate we could match to a configuration on this page.
Recalls	1	NHTSA recall campaigns	A complete federal register: every campaign covering this model year, with severity and advisory flags.
Owner complaints	5	NHTSA complaint database	Also complete, but unverified: these are reports owners filed, not findings. Counts scale with how many were sold.
Crash ratings	none	NHTSA NCAP	NHTSA has not tested this model year. Cars are selected for testing, so untested is not unsafe.
Service bulletins	1525	NHTSA manufacturer communications	Everything the manufacturer told its dealers about a defect or malfunction, short of a recall.
Investigations	none	NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation	No defect investigation has been opened.
Driver-assist crash reports	none	NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01	No report has been filed. Only entities named in the order report, and only crashes they hear of — so this is also what an unequipped car, or a manufacturer without telematics, looks like.
Specifications filed with NHTSA	none	NHTSA vPIC, decoded from VIN patterns	We had no VIN pattern to decode for this model year, or the manufacturer filed nothing usable.
Trims, pricing & equipment	13 trims	Manufacturer press kit	Transcribed from the manufacturer's own press material, every value carrying the document it came from.

Rebuilt nightly; this page was generated 2026-10-26. Every figure above is traceable to the source named beside it, and the JSON for this page carries the same values with their identifiers.

Sources & method

Safety Signal starts every model-year at 100 and subtracts points per open NHTSA recall campaign by severity: critical 15 (fire risk, park-outside or do-not-drive advisories), high 8 (brakes, steering, airbags, loss of drive power, structure, battery), moderate 6, minor 3 (software, labels, lighting fixed by an update). The most serious recall counts in full and each further one counts 85% of the one before, because a vehicle sold in millions is recalled more often than a rare one without being more dangerous — and because a flat subtraction bottomed the scale out, scoring a vehicle with 22 recalls within a point of one with six. A ≥ 90, B ≥ 80, C ≥ 70, D ≥ 60, otherwise F. Read it as what it counts: recall campaigns on the federal record, weighted by severity. The damping reduces the sales bias by roughly 40% but does not remove it: like our complaint counts, this is not normalized by how many were sold, so a best-seller still scores somewhat worse than an obscure model with the same real risk. NHTSA crash ratings, do-not-drive and park-outside advisories, and the crash, fire, injury and death counts in owner complaints are reported separately on every page and never blended into the letter — a vehicle can hold five stars and a poor letter at once, and where that happens we say so rather than leave you to notice. Because the scale subtracts from a clean sheet, a model year too new to have been recalled, complained about or bulletined scores full marks on an empty record; we label those grades provisional rather than present them as earned.

EPA figures come from fueleconomy.gov vehicle records. Recalls, complaints, investigations and crash ratings come from NHTSA's public flat files, refreshed nightly. Trim-level specifications and pricing are transcribed from the manufacturer's official press kit; every value carries its source in the data file.

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