Baby SUV prepares to roar

Porsche hopes its newest SUV - named after an Indonesian tiger - will eat up the competition, writes Matt Robinson.

The Porsche Macan: a compact SUV that blends driving thrills with traditional SUV strengths.

Porsche's new baby SUV promises to be the most appealing product the German sports car company has yet released for Irish buyers. While the very mention of the brand's name conjures up images of supercar-baiting 911s and Caymans, diversification has been a fact of life for the Zuffenhausen firm ever since the dark days of the late 1990s, when it was struggling to survive with a limited model range.

The bigger 4x4, the ...