More than a facelift: 2024 Porsche Cayenne revealed in preview ahead of official debut

Porsche won't officially debut the heavily updated 2024 Porsche Cayenne SUV until late this month, but we know what it looks like thanks to a digital rendering incidentally revealed by the Stuttgart brand.

In a recent round of previews in Europe, some YouTube channels and reviewers were given a chance to sit inside a new 2024 Cayenne and see the interior of the Porsche large SUV undisguised - including with working tech.

That tech includes a large screen that spans the dash, incorporating a passenger media screen, and also modes that show a render of the car's exterior.

As seen above in screen grabs from a video by the car crash review, the new Porsche Cayenne retains a lot of its style from the current model year, though brings facelifted elements like the split headlight design already seen on the likes of the Porsche Taycan.

So far the majority of what we've seen of the updated Cayenne has been from disguised mules for prototype testing, of which Porsche has undertaken more than four million kilometres of to prepare the 2024 Cayenne - it says this is "one of the most extensive product upgrades in the history of Porsche".

The rear of the new Cayenne also shows a tail-light strip - as is fashionable now.

The Cayenne will keep its horizontal grille and, of course, its hard points like the windscreen won't change until the car's next generation at least.

The rear of the new Cayenne also shows a tail-light strip - as is fashionable now - and bodywork that descends onto the lower rear diffuser in a more aggressive manner.

Inside is where the biggest changes can be found - a huge panel with two screens spans most of the dash, one screen is for multimedia and vehicle controls, the other purely for the front passenger, while the instrument panel is a 12.6-inch curved display with a ‘streamline' look in a relatively traditional binnacle shape.

As seen above in screen grabs from a video by the car crash review, the new Porsche Cayenne retains a lot of its style from the current model year.

Porsche has kept a significant amount of physical buttons for controls like HVAC and on the steering wheel, however, possibly after negative feedback to parent company Volkswagen after some changes to interiors for the Golf and first ID.3.

After the mid-life facelift, Porsche's Cayenne team will turn more attention to the next-gen model, expected early in the second half of the decade as a fully electric variant to be sold alongside the current generation for some time.

That tech includes a large screen that spans the dash, incorporating a passenger media screen.

Porsche Board Chair Oliver Blume confirmed the brand is "expanding our product portfolio with new sports car concepts".

The Macan and the Porsche 718 small sports car will go full-BEV, followed by its most popular model, the Cayenne.