FIRST DRIVE: Porsche Macan Turbo - As Fast As A 911 GT3!

The Porsche Maan has gone all-electric, so here are some important facts: First, they've packed the hardware into a can, but more on that in a moment, there are two models, the Maan 4 and the Maan

turbo

, both powered by dual and, therefore, with four. front-wheel

drive

and both have a 100 KW battery, of which 95 KW hours are usable, so 95%, and even I can do those calculations, there is probably a cheaper rear-wheel

drive

car on the way, so like an S and probably a GTS because that's how Porsche runs up to 380 Mi for the four, a little less for the

turbo

in 367 and both have an 800 volt architecture that allows for very

fast

charging.

Oh, and they're both on a new platform called the premium electric platform, which is the Lego bits that underpin the Audi q6 rron and the upcoming A6 rron, not a single piece carryover from the previous Macan, not even the cu badge that's also been modified recently £69,800 for the Macan 4 which is just £600 less than a basket in the UK or 95 Grand on the nose for the turbo neither is slow. You could stop this video now but you wouldn't get to the good part, so this is a turbo Macan and no, it doesn't have a turbo, that's what Porsche calls it.

It's a

fast

er model, so you don't need to make that k in 1 12746 joke on the Internet, this car has 635 brake horsepower and 833b-ft of torque, which means it will hit 62 mph in 3.3 seconds and hit 162 mph, so it gets to 62 a couple of seconds quicker than the maam 4 at 5.2. I'd like to make it clear: this is a mid-size electric SUV that will accelerate as fast as a 911 GT3 from rest to 62kph and it doesn't even have the stupid gooseneck spoiler on the back, dammit Yes, that's very fast and it won't make you look like a racetrack refugee in the Tesco car park either because the new McAn actually looks like a slightly swooper version of a Maan.

I'm not going to surprise any current mechanics with their golf shoes or anyone in particular because of the rear end and because of some of the shapes, I get hints of knen from certain angles, especially the coupe with this kind of swoopy towards the roofline and the big changes. They're actually on the front because you've got these daytime running lights on top here like the 4-point Tyon ones you'll recognize and then since there's no internal combustion engine under the front, it actually has a pretty low hood. with these. they're kind of like buttresses that go up the hood um and for the

first

time on a Maan because this is a Tada a frunk bear and it opens via gesture control or with the key so it's actually quite convenient and yeah you can put a decent sized bag or your charging cables or whatever is there, on the front we also have some really trixy aerodynamics, so there are some blind fins under here and some air curtains that channel the air through here and over the front wheels and Basically they give this car an aerodynamic drag coefficient of 0.25.

Now, if you go over the 35 of the old car, it's worth 80 km of range, which is approximately, I don't know, 55 thousand, something like that. As for the wheels, you can have up to 22, which This is a turbo, so the 22 inch wheels don't seem to really affect the ride, which I was quite pleased with and then one thing about these side paddles down here and you can get them in three different colors such as gloss black, black and a carbon fiber thing that visually lowers the car a bit, there is the usual 3D light bar at the rear across its full width and you have two different charging points, so which one side is just AC for when you plug it in at night. and the other side is both AC and DC for fast charging, so you can choose for your AC.

Your CC is just on this side, a bit like a tyon, it's shorter than the ice version but has a longer 86mm wheelbase so there's more of it. space for people and stuff and I actually think it looks pretty good, let me know what you think, as for the interior, it's pretty much what you'd expect if you've ever been in a modern Porche or even another powered Macan, it has a vegan leather, leather free and you can have a Comfort or sport seat, this one is a turbo so these get sport seats which are actually very comfortable and actually look pretty good, a large 12.6 inch curved screen in front to me here and then a touchscreen in the middle so it's all pretty standard with some little rockers down here and another set of haptic switches for the weather related stuff, then there's an optional passenger screen which is basically a duplicate of the one here so your passenger can do things like alter the navigation or even watch Netflix if they don't like you very much and that's directional so you can't over drive at the same time.

It's interesting that Porsche has really upped their game with this new Macan, much better connectivity, it's got Android. On board, everything is much faster, so every time you touch a screen it reacts instantly and after that it's pretty much what you'd expect a modern Porsche to be, except with a few extra touches. I mean, the steering wheel is still in the right place where the seats were. Really good ergonomics and you can change the drive modes just with this control wheel here and then in the middle there's a lot more room than you would get with something with a transmission tunnel so these cup holders have a lot of room down here in the middle . the center console, a wireless charging pad here and something I really like is that little shelf is actually cooled so my phone always gets really hot if you put it on a wireless charging pad that cools it down there's a little more storage here and Overall there's plenty of room in the back thanks to that longer wheelbase, a big boot and obviously that frunk and that basically makes it a 911 honestly it's all improvements and good news, since, as a daily practice, the new Macan practically has it nailed, there is always the Worry about very fast battery electric cars because the Finesse is missing, that the torque and weight hit you in the face, but with this car electric Porsche in particular doesn't really feel like that, it feels very solid now, the only cars.

The four motor electric cars that I've driven that have really managed to negate the weight of the battery and then you can basically make the car drive wherever you want just through programming and the Maan only has two motors front and rear so what can. It's not absolutely spot on, but I think Porsche has done a great job of making it possibly the best-handling midsize SUV on the market. It's really precise and they are very twisty and quite narrow roads and you have a lot of control and confidence in 20 degrees. % through the city it feels very languid, very calm and then it feels normal in the mid range and as soon as you start pushing this car it comes to life again and then when you start going very fast you change modes to through this little wheel here and go into sport or Sport Plus and this changes around the belt line of the car everything stiffens the throttle response becomes more it feels like the car really wants to turn it's quite aggressive look there are erections for a car like this it held its line perfectly, now a lot of these big, fast battery electric cars are so heavy when you go really fast, they just understand that they feel heavier the faster you go, but No, it's the other way around, it becomes livelier and more involving the faster you go.

Use it the harder you drive it and it's actually a lot of fun and I didn't think it would be. I thought that a 100 kwh hour battery is probably a bit much, as the 100 KW battery is a decent size and while it's not a particularly smart battery chemistry, it's an 800 volt architecture like the Tyon, so what you're looking at is a maximum charge rate of 27 to 20 kW, which gives between 10 and 80% charge in just over 20 minutes with a large enough charger, that's something like 60 Mi every 4 minutes , unless you're on the road. Traveling is actually convenient, especially when traveling on the road, and you can charge the bank by essentially splitting the battery into two parts, so you don't need an expensive booster like the Tyan has for 400-volt charging stations, which which means more efficient charging and better heat management.

There are also 11 Kow DC Charges for target reloads, which is pretty good and don't forget that the time spent on the charger is actually in a decent range. The official figures are 380 Mi for the Maam 4 and 367 for the turbo, that is, 4.2 m per KW. for the maam 4 and that's a really solid performance, there's torque vectoring through the brakes but apparently that's low on the priority list because it slows the car down slightly and Porsches shouldn't slow down, there's no Active Ride Control or none of the really EXP expensive stuff because this is supposed to be some kind of entry level Porsche, the gateway drug to the Porsche dump.

I would say that although the best part of this car for me is the steering, I now like the size of the steering wheel. I like the fact that it has alcantar, but more than that, it has different physical properties than the steering on the Audi version of this platform and some electric cars feel like simulators or like steering columns made of old socks and spit and this is not connected to you. You can really feel your way around the corner. It feels like there is a relationship between the front and rear motor. You can feel the grip.

Is not perfect. It's not as good as a good analog system, but it's pretty accurate and for a car this size. it's like look you just get, the more aggressive you are with it the better it gets, it's wicked, why well, it's actually about the spread of the

macan

's abilities, if it's suitably fast, the overtakes flash, you'll get it you lose sure, but not only is it fast, it's kind of a swiss army knife, there's air suspension that's standard on the turbo and optional on the otherwise steel 4, and the body control is tight as a drum, Two-valve damping that allows for greater distance. between total, soft comfort and greater response well thought out modes that do what you really expect rear wheel steering that makes it a car that parks, but is also very stable in a high speed corner and then they are the other Porsche stuff so there's no regenerative braking no pedal drives all the regen comes out of the actual brake pedal so you have to press the pedal but that suits the car it suits a Porsche as the brakes are absolutely solid, they are consistent, they are not too aggressive again, this is a car that you will probably do it daily, so you don't want something that has a rock C pedal that you can't modulate and that also makes that cool noise, and when you turn it on, yes, you see it's rear biased, it feels like a Porsche, it sounds really stupid to say it, but it's true that a 911 driver could drive this Maan being purely electric and know it's a Porsche, and that's a tremendous trick.

What I think I'm basically saying is that we're looking at the new benchmark for this kind of thing. Porsche has just made the new boss, although the caveat I would have is that the turbo is just starting to look as stylish and performance-oriented at the top end of its performance envelope. So if you're never going to drive the car like this, maybe the four that's a little slower would be more appropriate. Oh, what am I saying? Just get a turbo. It's Mega. This is crazy. So is the new Porsche Maan really any good? When I

first

saw this static car, I wondered if it would be worth it to buy an electric Maccan or just buy a GTS and use it until it breaks.

I have to say I still think the GTS is a good car but this car is absolutely brilliant, if there was a car that would convince you of the whole EV thing then the new Maan probably would be it. I think the Macan 4 is probably the most sensible purchase, but this turbo feels a little heavy, even though I think Porsche just made it. a new benchmark is expensive, but at least you know where they spent the money, oh yeah, and as for that boat you saw before, well, this is it, so this is a fra exp pora Phantom 850 a and the interior, What there is, it's a bit like a 911, it has five dials, it has different modes, such as autonomy, Sport and Sport Plus, it has a Porsche steering wheel, but better than that, it has the complete transmission of the new Macan Electric, so the same 100 kW battery of the rear motor the turbo has around 600 horsepower and that means it is quite agile as an electric boat, it makes you feel like you are in Miami Vice, it can be charged quickly with direct current, it also has capacity It seats nine people and has a top speed of 4.46 knots, which is about 53 mph. and it can move for an hour without needing to be charged, so it's not for transatlantic crossings.

This is a Porsche experience like no other. I just remembered that I don't know how to drive aship, but I know so little about ships. It looks great and people tell me it handles well, but you'll need a little more cash to pay for one. Costing 56,000 plus tax, it makes the Maan look like a bargain.