The high-performance SUV is a troubling thing. Too large, too heavy and with an unfavourable centre of gravity, high-performance SUVs are never rewarding as drivers' cars.
As performance cars, high-performance SUVs are deeply paradoxical. They're ungainly when driven quickly on tight and twisty roads, and equally compromised when travelling on corrugated dirt roads.
Silly things, these high-performance SUVs. But if you want all the space of a station wagon configuration, which is what an SUV is, with immense reserves of performance, there's always been an Audi to serve that purpose.