Porsche Cayenne Interior Revealed With New Passenger Screen

• The next Porsche Cayenne has a brand-new interior with more connectivity than ever.
• Porsche offers an optional passenger screen so occupants can stream their favorite shows.
• The Cayenne now gets the steering wheel right out of the 911.

The screen will allow passengers to do a number of things, from adjusting various settings to controlling audio to fiddling with the car’s navigation. On top of that, Porsche will allow passengers to stream video from the screen, which is where the tinting comes in handy. The brand says the service is courtesy of ScreenHits TV, which basically turns all your streaming services back into a TV guide. Most importantly for road trippers, Porsche says passengers can use the service while the vehicle is in motion.

Despite the new screens, Porsche made an effort to keep the focus on the driver. The driver’s cluster has seven total display options, including nav, the optional night vision, and the 3D driving assistance system. You can also toggle to a “classic” view, which we imagine features traditional gauges and displays. Thankfully, Porsche has kept physical controls for the driver, with most of them centered around the wheel. Drive modes, which include Normal, Off-road, Sport and Sport Plus are selected via the same dial as in the 911. A new toggle switch for various screen functions is also on the wheel, as are controls for the car’s head-up display.

Porsche doesn’t say much about the car’s central screen or its functions, presumably because these details will arrive at the Cayenne’s full reveal in April. However, it does say that the new dash the screen sits in is intended to be a design statement. It’s supposed to make the Cayenne appear wider from the inside, and the entire instrument cluster, center tunnel and door uppers have all been completely restyled.

Connectivity is one of the new Cayenne’s main talking points thus far. A new, cooled wireless charger allows 15-watt charging — something other brands need to be doing. New “online services” mean you can use your favorite voice assistant, like Siri, in-car. Cabled charging can be handled by any number of USB ports as well. There are two in the front storage compartment and two in the rear center console. All are capable of fast charging. The front two ports also pair your phone with PCM (Porsche Communication Management).

Phones can also be paired wirelessly in the new Cayenne by scanning a QR code, and PCM will offer Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, and integrated apps like Spotify and Apple Music. The new Cayenne is set to debut in a few weeks, and more details on the interior — and the rest of the car — will be available on April 18.

Edmunds says

The new Cayenne's interior looks incredibly promising and thoroughly modern — it also sets the same tone for the rest of the car. The new passenger screen is something we expect to see more of in new luxury cars, and the cooled wireless charger is a brilliant if obvious solution to a common complaint. Porsche is known for its plethora of optional extras, like the passenger screen, and we're curious to see pricing on such a luxurious option.