Everyone knows about Porsche's legendary performance on the road and on the track, but what about on the trail?

The Porsche Cayenne SUV, Porsche's best-selling vehicle worldwide, occasionally takes some ribbing from Porsche purists, but here in snow country, it is a very popular vehicle. With models ranging from the base V6 Cayenne to the Cayenne S Hybrid to the powerful Cayenne Turbo, discerning SUV drivers pick up the all-wheel drive Cayenne to get to work in the snow or up to the slopes on the weekend.

In addition to being a reliable companion when roads turn icy, the Cayenne has proven to be an accomplished off-roader when leaving the pavement behind. As such, the readers of "OFF ROAD" trade magazine have voted the Porsche Cayenne the "Off-road vehicle of the year" in the "Luxury SUV" category. The choice was made between models from eleven manufacturers in this category alone. Porsche's sporty SUV attracted more than 20 percent of the votes, putting itself in the lead by a clear margin.

Porsche received the "OFF ROAD AWARD 2012" on February 9th, at a prize ceremony in Munich, Germany. Julian Baumann, Sales Project Manager for the SUV model line, accepted the prize, stating, "This award illustrates yet again just how popular this sporty SUV is. The 100,000th Cayenne of the current generation was built only a few weeks ago in Leipzig."

OFF ROAD magazine's reader poll has been held since 1982. This year there were 143 vehicles from 40 manufacturers in twelve categories in the running, and more than 57,000 readers took part in the poll.

Source: Porsche