TANGO TUNERS ARE AT IT AGAIN!
‘Sabertooth’ Porsche Cayenne – B500
“Quite simply the best SUV tune and paint your Forza credits
can buy”
Sunday morning, was like any other Sunday morning for me,
stay in bed just that little bit longer, eat cereals, shower, get dressed,
brush teeth and so on, you get the picture. However, little did I know that the
guys at Tango Tuners had delivered a nice little surprise, well I say little,
but actually it was a rather large surprise. It came in form of an SUV adorned
with a livery which simply blew me away. I duly took it for a test drive and
suddenly my ordinary Sunday morning was turned into a very extraordinary Sunday
morning, but was it for the right reasons?
How does it look?
Absolutely brilliant! Without a doubt this has to be the
best paint I have seen so far. DOA Liquid has pulled out all the stops on this
project and it has paid off big time. He has turned a huge, ungainly vehicle
into a thing of beauty and as a result the Cayenne looks superb from every angle.
What’s the performance like?
DOA KappaTango really has worked wonders with this SUV tune,
turning the mediocre standard Porsche Cayenne, into a definite B Class winner.
The Cayenne has
seen a staggering increase of over 100bhp, taking the total bhp to a whopping
659! There has also been a noticeable torque increase, with the Porsche now
possessing 578lb ft of torque. It’s not all good though, as Tango Tuners seem
to have ignored the fact that the Cayenne
needed to go on a diet and increased the weight to a hefty 5,230lbs. Amazingly,
the increase in weight seems to have had no impact whatsoever on straight line
performance and at full throttle the Cayenne
is at its best. Although Tango Tuners claim that the ‘Sabertooth’ is not a
leader board car, I managed to easily stick it in the top 1 per cent at most
tracks. But the track which really seemed to play to the Cayenne’s strengths had to be Silverstone, in
all three track configurations this SUV excelled. Clearly the large number of
high speed corners and fairly long straights played right into the hands of the
Cayenne.
Granted, it’s not going to come top of any leader boards, but for an SUV the
performance is mightily impressive.
How does it handle?
In the fast, sweeping corners the Cayenne is in its element, taking them in its
stride. However in the slower stuff the Porsche does come a little unstuck and
unsurprisingly really, because the weight of it takes its toll. Under heavy
breaking you can feel the Cayenne
struggling to slow down, tyres clawing at the race track, begging to slow down.
As a result of this you find yourself sliding helplessly past the apex, time
and time again. However, do not be alarmed, this is by no means the end of the
world. All it takes is a slight adaptation in driving style. You can’t just
slam on the brakes; you’ve got to wipe the speed of gently and calmly, allowing
yourself to ease the Cayenne
into a corner. Once you have wiped off enough speed the front end suddenly
bites a lot more than it usual. It not longer has to worry about slowing down,
that part’s done and it just pulls round nicely. Nevertheless this will cost
you time up against other B Class cars, but the second you get on the throttle,
you will be untouchable. Let rip down the straights and gain all your lap time
there.
Would you feel cool pulling up to start line in it?
Normally, pulling up in an SUV would result in numerous
sniggers over the microphone, but with the ‘Sabertooth’ this is certainly not
the case. The paint alone silences the sceptics before the race has even begun.
Once you hit the straights and rev the pants off the beast, not only do you
further silence the sceptics, but you also put miles of track between yourself
and them. With the ‘Sabertooth’ racing an SUV just got super cool.
Is it worth spending your hard earned credits on?
If you are looking for an SUV paint/tune combo and you don’t
go for this then you probably need to seek medical advice. This really is a no
brainer, as long as you don’t mind being the hate figure of online rooms as you
drive effortlessly away from everyone down the straights.
FINAL VERDICT
Once again Tango Tuners have attempted to break the laws of
physics, or at least the laws of Forza, and turn an SUV into an online
dominating, leader board smashing, strangely beautiful, winning machine. Tango
Tuner’s ‘Bulldog’ B Class Mercedes SUV certainly proved it was possible despite
its hilarious, not to mention dangerous tendency to tip over. This time however,
it certainly seems as though Tango Tuners have learnt from their mistakes with
Porsche’s all-wheel-drive SUV, the Cayenne.
Virtually every aspect as been improved upon second time around, in the SUV
tuning department. Tango Tuners really have nailed it this time. Everyone needs
an SUV in their Forza garage and the Sabertooth is the one to have.
AVENGER