Report: Walter de'Silva to work on Porsche Cajun

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Oct 13, 2010 | 10:04 AM

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Report: Walter de'Silva to work on Porsche Cajun

"There's no debating that the engineers at Porsche are some of the best in the business. Their designers? Well let's just say that short of the 918 Spyder concept, they've been a little too preoccupied redesigning the Christmas tree to jumpstart the marque's design ethos any time in the last...oh, say, 80 years. That's where Walter de'Silva comes in.

As design director for the entire Volkswagen Group – which now includes Porsche – de'Silva clearly has a lot on his plate. Nevertheless, his next task will be injecting Porsche with some new attitude, and while the next-gen Boxster and 911 are on the horizon from Stuttgart, their designs have reportedly already been completed.

What next, then? The Cajun. The long-anticipated baby Cayenne may be on hold (along with the rest of Porsche's plans) for the time being, but to get it on track, the company will need a fresh design approach. And that's exactly what de'Silva hopes to give the Cajun, collaborating with Porsche's own design director Michael Mauer in the process.

So what can we expect from the Cajun if and when it arrives? For starters, reports indicate that it will initially be available in three-door guise only, targeting the new Range Rover Evoque while steering clear of the Audi Q5 on whose shortened platform the Cajun will ride. A five-door version is expected to follow, with a market debut – assuming it gets the green light – around 2014."

[Source:Autoblog via Automotive News]