The Porsche Cayenne is now officially a Guinness world record holder – the German SUV has taken the crown of heaviest aircraft pulled by a production vehicle during a recent publicity stunt at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
The new record was set utilizing a basic £66,676 Cayenne S Diesel, which makes utilize of a 4.1-litre V8 twin-turbo creating 380bhp, however a lot more importantly, 850Nm of torque. With those figures it was able to tug a colossal, 285 tonne, 516 seat, 73 metres long Airbus A380 supplied by Air France over a distance of 42 metres.
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More frequently than not world records are set by fine margins, however the Cayenne has taken the record by a considerable gulf – 115 tonnes to be precise. The previous Guinness world record for heaviest aircraft pulled by a production vehicle was set back in 2013 by a Nissan Patrol, which handled to tow 170 tonnes of aeroplane. 
The vehicle was driven during the accomplishment by Porsche GB technician Richard Payne, who said, “We don’t normally go this far to test the limits of our vehicles however I believe today we got quite close”.
The record was repeated later on utilizing a 562bhp Cayenne Turbo S, too.
Porsche is no complete stranger when it pertains to Guinness world Records. together with the marque’s different Motorsport benchmarks, a team of 12 from Porsche Human performance set the world record for the biggest distance run on a treadmill over 48 hours back in 2009, covering 868.64km collectively. Porsche owners as well as fans have likewise come together to set records  – in 2008, a convoy of 2,325 owners in Germany produced the largest parade of Porsches on record. 
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