Is it a Touareg or a Cayenne?

 Is it a Touareg or a Cayenne?
Russian mechanics is the craziest people / SeatGuru

Ridiculous Russian SUV Spotted

If you know about the Moscow-run Millionaire Fair, held in both Russia and Amsterdam, then you know that it would be easy to argue that several Russians have been able to earn far too much money with little idea about how to spend it well.  Case in point is brought to you by CarsGuru, translated by English Russia, which has many pictures of a mash-up between a Porsche Cayenne and Volkswagen Touareg.  Whether you call it the Touarenne or the Cayeg, one thing you won't call it is good looking.

Just because Porsche and Volkswagen may become one company in the coming years, does not mean that someone should create a Frankensteinian combination of the two vehicles.  As Jalopnik points out, either this is a Cayenne with windows from a Touareg, or a Touareg with a lot of plastic surgery to make it appear like a Cayenne.

We know two things for sure.  First, the Porsche-style Speed Yellow color is totally unessential, as the car stands out enough as is (not necessarily a good thing).  Second, our children would kill us if we drove them to school in this bastardization.  In Japan, the designer of this SUV would have committed seppuku because of the dishonor he would have brought on himself and his family for creating this.

In Russia, the bodyshop probably got more work because of the final product.

Source: SeatGuru

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 Penner Penner
Not too bad, I think. With that colour every car would look Frankenstein-like. In black maybe, why not.
January 23, 2008 9:16 am
 Nitric Nitric
It's extremly customized Touareg :)
January 23, 2008 9:19 am
 SZQ SZQ
I reckon it resemble a Smart car.
January 23, 2008 9:20 am
This car was built about 3 years ago. Actually the project took a lot of time for designers and engineers. Most of the work was done in fact in Germany. The team later created RussoBaltique Impression. The project name is 'NeCayenne' - in English 'UnCayenne'. The base car is Cayenne Turbo, not Touareg. You can find 3 more pictures on the company's page: http://technika.multipass.ru/uploads/products/im69m3big.jpg http://technika.multipass.ru/uploads/products/im69m2big.jpg http://technika.multipass.ru/uploads/products/im69m1big.jpg
January 23, 2008 9:35 am
 BegiG BegiG
Pontiac Aztec + Sangyoung =Cayeg
January 23, 2008 9:37 am
 Bristol411S3 Bristol411S3
Truly monstrous. Delightfully reinforces all the stereotypes I hold about Russians and their money.
January 23, 2008 9:41 am
 super_car_muscle_man super_car_muscle_man
exactly. i want to invest in making some piece of crap like that, take it to russia, find a fool who has got lucky with his oil money and tell him thats its 10 times more than everything else on the market and its the best looking thing out there and get rich off those lucky b*****s!
January 23, 2008 2:08 pm
 kt kt
touareg =p
January 23, 2008 10:11 am
 catch22 catch22
The Cayenne and Touareg actually share front and rear doors so basically you couldn't tell apart from a sideview. However the front reveals that this is a Cayenne after all... My two cents
January 23, 2008 10:19 am
 ocean_drift ocean_drift
You guys forgot to notice the Audi grill. So, all in all, They have learnt to master the art of platform sharing better! hehe!
January 23, 2008 10:32 am
 ocean_drift ocean_drift
Yep, I forgot to add , old merc C-class grill and a pontiac grill on the rear? Or is it a radio active diffuser?
January 23, 2008 10:37 am
 vincent_driver vincent_driver
I can't agreee more the only thing missing is a bio-hazard sign next to it.
January 29, 2008 2:40 pm
 Marsman Marsman
I think they got a cayyene body and coustomized it and added things to it
January 23, 2008 11:04 am
 mickey_f1 mickey_f1
My God, this one is ugly! People on the streets would be scared if it appears round a corner! The russians must have forgotten what "proportion" means!
January 23, 2008 11:44 am
 ck314 ck314
It's clearly a VW Touareg (gloss black window contours and carved sills). The art of the grotesque I'd say.
January 23, 2008 12:39 pm
 gautdo gautdo
It's a Touareg. If you take a look to the last side window, the cayenne and this one doesn't have the same. It looks very similar to a Touareg.
January 23, 2008 12:48 pm
 xLumino xLumino
Yes, it's a wicked Touareg Some Details are very interesting styled, but the whole is a bit to strange. not my taste of tuning. A standart Cayenne looks better ^^
January 23, 2008 1:04 pm
 homebate homebate
Who designs these cars? Rich people think everything is cool if they pay 3 times the original value.
January 23, 2008 1:57 pm
 Gust3439 Gust3439
isnt that a Q7 grill ?
January 23, 2008 3:01 pm
 smokeonit1 smokeonit1
touareg... ugly as hell... russians have no taste... unfortunately..
January 23, 2008 3:17 pm
 napehbNYC napehbNYC
That is an ugly car, I agree, but its IMHO. To everybody its own. Someone might like it. And don't judge please the whole nation by just one person's deeds.
January 25, 2008 7:40 pm
 Alfafox5 Alfafox5
The skull on the back is pretty cool! LOL! What is sad is that it takes this radical design mess to make the plain jane Cayenne seem good-looking.What's with that name anyways, Cayenne belongs in a kitchen, not on a car. Overall the Toureg looks better IMO than a Cayenne, yet neither is very striking. The Cayenne has a similar bug-eyed look to this yellow school bus. Crazy all around,I guess beating a Cayenne / Toureg with a hammer does not make it more attractive.
January 23, 2008 3:46 pm
 Gio Gio
It is cayenne.I've seen this car in 2006 on supercar&bike show in Moscow
January 23, 2008 5:03 pm
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