Porsche hopes its Macan compact SUV will be able to repeat the success of its Cayenne, which accounted for 84,000 of the sports car maker’s 162,000 global sales last year.

To do this, however, the Macan will have to battle strong competition such as the BMW X3 and Audi Q5 in a tough segment.

The vehicle is based on Audi’s MLB architecture and shares several systems and components with the Audi Q5. Managing to appear both compact and muscular, the Macan looks more like a 911 SUV than a scaled-down Cayenne.

“We are positioning the Macan at the very top of the compact SUV segment and we envisage it being a major success story in America, as well as Europe and China,” Porsche sales and marketing boss Bernhard Maier said.

Porsche builds the Macan on a new assembly line in its factory in Leipzig, eastern Germany, where initial annual production is forecasted to be about 50,000.