Porsche Cayenne as an Ambulance?

So whats the first thing that springs to mind when you think of an Ambulance? Loud sirens and flashing blue lights? Big and cumbersome vehicle?

This is an example of an ambulance:   

and here is a Porsche Cayenne:      

Not usually something considered together in any thought you may have… but not so for the Health Ministry of Bulgaria!

The cash-strapped ministry is taking out a loan from the World Bank to buy a fleet of 32 Cayenne’s to serve as ambulances/patient transports.

Can’t help but wonder how some officials at the Ministry are probably just hoping to use all of this as an excuse to get thier hands on a high performance car for the weekends. For a while anyway… to ‘test drive’ it…

There are many alternatives that could have been chosen. Especially the Volkswagon Touareg as it is so similar. (I wasn’t surprised to discover the Cayenne and Touareg were developed together as I remember thinking how much it looked like a Cayenne when I first seen one.)

The Touareg would be a lot cheaper than the Cayyene for sure. The Ministry does however state that it was from Porsche that it received the lowest bid. Maybe Porsche will be making the real money on this from the maintanence after the sale.

I guess if you can have a Lamborghini Gallardo as a police car in Italy.. then why not a Cayenne for an Ambulance?

Well more on this story here. As well as more comments and suggestions of alternatives…