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Porsche Tycon and it is the most important car of the year because it is the first electric car that generates as much hype and excitement as Tesla, which has dominated the electric car market for years. Today I'm going to review the Tycon. I'm going to show you all its quirks and features and, first, find out if the hype is justified. A quick overview. Tesla launched the model in 2012 and it quickly became an overnight sensation, suddenly everyone who got the model. The newest high-tech smartphone and laptop wanted the newest high-tech car over the years, other electric cars have appeared, but Tesla fans have barely noticed the arrival of the audi e-tron or the jaguar eye pace that just don't bring as much excitement and enthusiasm when tesla orders and then the taikan

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announced that it was going into production, it was a mad rush to Porsha dealerships to place orders, suddenly a new electric car appeared that everyone was interested in. The design of the production Tycon is remarkably similar to the Mission E concept and right now you can get the Tycon in four versions, starting with the 4s. which has 520 horsepower, then t

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is the 4s with an upgraded battery and 560 horsepower, then there is the turbo with 670 horsepower and then there is this, the king of the hill, the ticon turbo s with 750 horsepower of force, this car also has 775 pound-feet of torque and will do 0-60 in 2.6 seconds, of course, all this comes at a considerable price.

The entry-level Ticon 4 starts around $105k with about 250 miles of range. The Ticon Turbo s starts around 185,000 with a similar range now the other. The Taikan models offer more range, but it never gets there, it doesn't cross 300 miles, meaning it doesn't come close to Tesla. The Long Range model currently offers around 370 miles between charges, but there's more to this car than numbers. Today I'm going to review the Tycon and show you all the cool quirks and features of the most anticipated car of the year, then I'm going to take it on the road, drive it and then I'm going to give it an excellent rating and for more of my thoughts on the Tycon, Click the link below to visit autotrader.com. oversteer.

Alright, I'll start with the quirks and features of the Tycon by just getting in now when When you walk up to the car, you can see that the door handles are kind of pressed against the door, so you can't put your hand in there and open them. So how do you do it right? It turns out that if you have the key in your pocket, you walk up, put your hand under the door handle, they burst open and then you can open the door up, look closer, you can see, I'm approaching the car door handles, I stick my fingers under it and then it opens and you can open the door basically in one motion.

It's cool now that the door handles are raised like this, which basically serves as an indication that your icon is unlocked. If you want to lock it, simply walk up to the door handle and touch it. and then you push down towards the door, the car is locked and you can drive away, of course you can also use your key fob to lock and unlock the doors, as you can see, a pretty standard looking Porsche key fob, you press unlock, the doors unlock it. press lock, they lock which I like about the key fob, although there is a small light around the Porsche shield at the base of the key fob and every time you press a button it flashes to confirm that it has the button you pressed. which is kind of a neat look, but when it comes to opening things on the Tycon, the door isn't nearly the coolest element, that honor goes to the charging port, the charging port is right here and you're thinking How do you open it?

Do you push it and open it? No, it turns out that this little black piece sticking out next to the charging port is a sensor. You slide your hand under the sensor and the charging port opens up and goes into the fender instead of just opening up and looking ugly. like the fuel door or charging port on most cars you want the charging port to close, same process in the other direction just slide your fingers back under the little black sensor and the port door charging is closed. This operation is by far the most skillful of all. charging port door that I've seen on any electric car and then moving on to the interior of the Tycon, there's a lot here so I'm going to walk you through all the cool quirks and features now that you get in this car.

If you want to start it like all Porsches, you can do it to the left of the steering wheel. Porsche has some racing history about putting the starter motor to the left of the steering wheel and that continues into the futuristic era of electric cars in this car. It's a button like the on/off button on your computer, that's how you start this, we're certainly in a brave world compared to an old school key that you turn at the start of the Le Mans car race, but such Perhaps the most interesting element in terms of getting into the car and starting is the gear lever that is to the right of the steering wheel.

You can see it's this very small little lever that you can use to move between reverse neutral and drive, up for reverse, down for drive in neutral. in the middle and then park there is a button on the side. I recently reviewed the new Porsche 911. It has this same strange little shifter, but it's mounted in the middle on this car, it's to the right of the steering wheel, near the stock wiper is very unusual, but this is a type of Different futuristic Porsche, so you might be thinking, okay, they moved the gear shift there, which was so important that they wanted to put it in the middle of this interior and the answer is the cupholders. you have a cup holder in the center and then you have a second cup holder that's a little bit to the right and that's what you have in the middle.

You also get a small storage area in the center console. You press this button on the driver's side and it appears. open it up and then you can put things in there. There is also a wireless charging pad. Pretty simple things that are the center of the ticon. Now the other item you have in the center of this car is much more important than the cup holders in the storage area. this center screen this screen has some of the most basic commands of the vehicle that you use most often you can see at the top you have the climate controls you can adjust the temperature the fan speed the heated and cooled seats unfortunately this screen is not only a simple touch like tesla and other car manufacturers you have to touch it quite hard and get feedback from the screen, it moves down as you press it and that's how you know you've touched something that's not exactly my type favorite screen, but that's what they used.

Now, to me, the bottom half of this screen is more interesting than the top half, although it may look a little blank to begin with. You have a little button on the side that has a battery and a car if you press the battery. part of that button tells you what percentage of charge you are at and your current range so you can always know by tapping that little button, if you press the car side of that button a little graph of the car appears and then you can use it to start opening things if you press here, for example, you can open the AC charger.

There is an AC and DC charger on the other side. You press that and it opens the same way as the one I just showed you. You can also use the screen to open the front trunk, press this little button and the front trunk will open, then you can go and put things in it and you can use this screen to open the rear trunk, press the button and the rear trunk will open automatically runs on power. The cool thing here is that you can also use this screen to close the rear trunk. You press this button on the screen and then the rear trunk will automatically close just as it was opened so you don't have to get out of the car to do that is the same with the cargo doors, they will also open and close on this screen so the screen can be used to open and close things.

Now I will say that there is one big error on this screen and that would be the volume situation. several other automakers have learned this, but Porsche apparently hasn't yet. The volume control in this car is on the touch screen. You have to tap, tap, tap, tap, tap to increase the volume, tap, tap, tap, tap to decrease the volume instead of a simple knob. One mistake, it should always be just one knob and there is one on the steering wheel, but if the passenger wants to change the volume, he has to start tapping. Bad design and I hope they change it now, then with this center screen you might be wondering.

What is the rest of this space? There's so much empty space in this thing. What do you do with it? The answer is: you can use it to control the top screen. Take a look while I move my finger and you can see exactly how I am doing. I'm moving translating to the top screen, so if you don't want to reach up to the top screen, you can simply control it using the bottom screen. I think first you have a screen that controls a screen and these. two screens are just eight inches away from each other, it seems ridiculously redundant, but it's there as a complementary control to the top screen, and to be clear, I say it's a complementary control because, again, the top screen is a touch screen that you can just go to. up there and you touch things or you can control them using the bottom screen, something really unusual, but that's what they've done and another interesting element on that bottom screen, at the bottom left of the screen, you have the camera button, yeah You press it, it pulls.

Install the camera system in this car and one of the options is a 360 degree exterior camera, so it basically shows your car and then shows everything that is happening around it, like there is some kind of helicopter with a camera floating around your car. It's a really good system. I can see it from several different angles and I really like it. I will say that this system is not as good as some rivals. You can see that there is some duplication of the image, which leads you to not be sure exactly if you are about to hit.

Some BMW does it a little better, but it's still a great feature and I'm glad Porsche included it. Next we move on to the center screen which has many more controls than the bottom screen if you go to the start menu in On the center screen you see the typical navigation media settings, basically what you would have in a normal Porsche infotainment system, but there are quite a few new and unusual elements here and now I'll start with the air vents if you look you can see the middle vents you can't adjust them and there's no way to stop the airflow which is a bit strange but sometimes that happens with the middle vents, but even on the sides there is nowhere to move them.

If you move them, there is nothing there that can move the vents, so how do you change the position of the airflow on the vents? Go to the climate tab on the infotainment screen and you can see that there are a few options that have been spread. focused and individual diffuse will blow air throughout the cabin focused will move the vents and focus them on you, but my favorite is individual because you can set the position of the vents using the center screen, you just move around these little bubbles and you can place the vents wherever you want and then the vents will move to blow air to where you place them.

I can feel the eye roll from people who just want a simple little lever on the vents, but I guess this is how Porsche will approach vent adjustments in the future. It's also worth knowing that you can adjust the airflow to the vents with this little bar that appears on the left, it's like a slider and you can move it up or down. for more or less airflow, same on the passenger side, you can choose between diffuse focused and individual and once again you move the bubbles for each individual and you can place the vents exactly where you want so no more You will simply have to move them. in the vents, you have to go to the screen.

Now next we move on to some interesting configurations of the car. The first one that caught my attention was something called electric sport sound that you can turn on or off. What does that do? Actually, I'm not. I'll definitely try it when I drive and see if I can tell the difference between sport and normal. The next interesting item in the car settings is recovery, which you can configure to usepart of the car's momentum. When it slows down to convert back into power and give you more miles of charge, you can set it to off or auto.

Now you may wonder why anyone would turn it off. Isn't it better to have more range but it changes the Apparently it's a feature of the car that slows down so if you want a more natural driving feel turn it off and then it will feel more like driving a normal car and that's why which Porsche allows it to be configurable and then passes to the navigation system. On this screen, the Porsche navigation system is fairly standard, but there are some new and unusual elements. One is range. You can select a menu item called range and then if you zoom out you can see that it shows exactly how far you can go with your current load.

Showing your current range is a pretty cool feature and I would like to see when electric cars include things like that in their navigation systems, this makes things a little more convenient and easier to determine how far you can drive the other new item e interesting. With the navigation system, you enter a destination and search, allowing you to type in an address or city and then you can type it in by hand using that empty space on the bottom screen so you can type in whatever you want. If you want the car to pick up your write most of the time and then stop on the screen you can select it and that's your destination much easier than typing each individual letter on a touch screen it's always a better solution and then up we move to the third screen and that would be the gauge cluster display, which has a very unusual shape.

It's shaped like a gauge cluster, not a rectangular square like most other screens, although to me the most interesting part of this gauge cluster screen is. If it's partially a touch screen, you'll notice that to the left you have several different levels of lighting, you can touch them and it turns on the parking lights or the automatic lights or whatever you want to do and there's no physical control of the light. on the left, like in most other cars, same thing on the right side of this oddly shaped gauge cluster screen, it has several different buttons to control different functions of the car, you can disable the traction control, it has the shortcut button, which is the diamond that you can program can be anything and you can touch them to make the gauge cluster display a touch screen.

Now I should mention that the gauge cluster is not a touch screen in the middle, it is very configurable, but if you want to configure it you have to press this little button. on the steering wheel to move between the different parts of the gauge cluster and then you can use this little wheel on the steering wheel to scroll through several different options, the most important one is in the middle, you can see right now it's on the map. and shows a map of where I am. You can also set it to a zoomed-in map and then it basically takes up the entire gauge cluster screen, which looks nice and can be very useful.

You can also set it to power meter and then it will show how much power you are using while driving with the speedometer right in the middle and you can set it to low if all that is too complex for you put it to low and you have a very simple gauge cluster display that not all kinds of different elements come at you at once, but to the left and right of the central part of the screen you can also set several different elements, again, simply use the steering wheel button to move to the part whatever you want and then you can Use the wheel to scroll through various different elements and there are all kinds of different functions of the car.

You can see your security systems. The pressure of your tires. Your trip odometer. gauge cluster that lets you choose what you want to see, which is a nice departure from the fixed gauges where that's all you're looking at and the next notable element is the gauge cluster graph that appears when you turn off the Tycon. Look at this. you turn it off and it says Tycon and shows a fairly standard silhouette of the car. A lot of cars do that but then the silhouette of the car turns and you see the light bar from behind and then the light bar slowly fades out and then the car is off, a lot of cars now have start and stop graphics but that's one one of the coolest ones I've ever seen and then we move on to the steering wheel, which is pretty much the same steering wheel you'll find on most. other Porsche models, although it notably lacks paddles because this car lacks a traditional transmission, the only interesting element worth noting on the steering wheel is this small dial that comes out to the right, which is the mode adjustment dial driving, you can turn it and then you can see.

Your various driving modes appear in the gauge cluster and you can scroll through them all and choose which one you want. A new one for this car is something called range which I assume will do everything it can to maximize its range and efficiency and allow you to travel as far as possible on a single charge and finally I want to talk about the interior quality which is fantastic, everything feels absolutely wonderful, well stitched and well put together, premium materials throughout this interior that far eclipse what you get in Tesla, this is a really good luxury car interior.

That being said, I am a little disappointed in one aspect and that would be this little plastic panel on this pillar next to the door panel. You can see the door panel is beautiful, with different colors stitched in carbon fiber and then it works. on this plastic panel and it just doesn't look that good for a hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, you would think that that panel would be finished in something other than what looks like cheap plastic and then we move on to the back seat. of the ticon and the first thing you notice here is that it is sporty, there is no three-person bench seat here, instead you have two individual seats and they are quite bolstered.

I guess the theory here is that you can take your whole family on the track and they won't be splashing around in their seats. It's worth noting that optional on this car is a three-person rear bench, so you can have a five-seater car or you can have a four-seater like this if not. Now I don't plan on carrying five people very often, other than the bucket seats, the first thing you will notice when you return here is the roof, which is a huge glass panel, this piece does not open, it is fixed in place and has no cover.

Although it's tinted so not much sunlight gets through, it's still a huge piece of glass and really makes the back feel very open. Now this piece covers the front seats as well, but it is not so noticeable in the front, but rather here in the back. It feels like you're on some sort of glass-bottom tour bus or boat, except it's on top and speaking of windows, another item worth mentioning here because of the design of this car, the rear windows don't open. They open a lot, you lower the windows. and this is as far as they open, contrary to popular myth, this is not a safety issue to prevent your children from getting out, it is based on the design of the back door and in this case the window simply cannot go very far into the door.

That said, there is good news for rear seat passengers. There are some nice features back here, for example it has heated seats in the rear, you can press these little buttons to turn on the heated seats in three different stages and it also has individual reading lights. Back here you have a little button on the roof that you can press that turns on the reading lights so you can read while being driven around the race track in your electric Porsche. Another thing is that rear seat passengers have climate control. The adjusters on the vents have a little dial to regulate the airflow and these little switches to move around the vents, so if you don't want to deal with that center screen for climate vent adjustment, just sit back in the back and then we move. around the back of the Ticon and in the trunk.

I'm going to start by opening the trunk, which is done with this rather obvious button in the center of the rear of the car. Most car manufacturers place the trunk release button right above the license plate. badge, but I guess Porsche thought it would be too far away for people to bend over, so it's right here and it's nice as far as the trunk buttons go, but you press it anyway and then the trunk opens revealing a Quite small trunk. This is not a hatchback like the Panamera, where the rear cargo area is open to the cabin.

Instead, this car has a real trunk or trunk if you want to call it that like a traditional sedan and it's really not that big, although it's worth it. Note that you can pull this little loop out and then there's a little bit more storage under here in case you have small items that you want to keep out of the rest of the trunk and the next notable item in the trunk is the emergency exit. The government requires that all cars with a cargo area include some type of emergency exit opening so that if you are kidnapped and put in a trunk, you can get out.

Most cars have an ugly little lever that hangs down, but this car has a nice little button that says exit in a very quiet way. Porsche even makes the trunk emergency exit open better than other automakers, and then moving on to the back of the ticon, there are a couple more items worth noting, one of which is just above the tuition. You can see you have your rear camera, which is not interesting, in fact it's mandatory, but right next to the camera there is a little thing sticking out, what is it exactly? It's a washing machine and if the camera gets dirty, you can access the infotainment system. the camera presses this little washing machine looking button and then it washes the camera so you don't have to go out and wash the camera yourself, the car will do it for you which is a pretty nice little quirk.

Now, another interesting article related to washing. the tycon comes with the rear spoiler on other porsche models you can drive with the rear wing up so people don't stare at you so on the Taikan there is a spoiler right here and it will go up automatically at certain speeds but you can only put it manually. To wash the car, there's a little thing in the infotainment system that allows you to put the spoiler into cleaning mode, it only goes this far, so you can basically put a rag underneath and clean the area that you can't actually clean. . drive with the spoiler up so you can't have people looking at you and your cool Porsche with the spoiler and then another cool thing on the back of this car.

All Porsche models have light bars. That's not particularly noteworthy. The good stuff is just below. that the Porsche script is on what looks like a circuit, you can see all these little lines between each letter and it looks like something futuristic, special and high tech, and I really like that they bothered to do that which gives the car. just a little bit more interesting look now the last thing I want to discuss here is the name of this car because it has caused quite a bit of controversy. I'm going to start with taikan and yes, that's how you say taikan and not taekon, which is It's weird because it sounds like it would be pronounced taekon, but Porsha assures me it's not.

It's also strange because they have a car called makhan that is unrelated to this, so makon and taikon aren't facing two separate Porsche models. I find it strange but I also want to talk about the other name on the back of this car and that would be turbo s when Porsche announced they would be using turbo and turbo s for the higher performance versions of this car people went crazy. The internet completely missed it, how can they call it turbo? It doesn't even have a gasoline engine or a turbo. It's sacrilege, people say, how can they take names from cars?

This, literally, looking around this parking lot, do you think the Chevy Trailblazer is outside? There are burning trails. Do you think the Toyota Highlander is in the highlands? no, it's in a parking lot in the suburbs of los angeles next to a prius the chevy avalanche the closest you'll ever get to an actual avalanche is when the owner pulls up to milk queen for a snowstorm the simple truth is that In today's world of electrification and smaller turbo engines none of these names mean anything anymore the BMW 550i no longer has a 5 liter V8 the Mercedes C43 does not have a 4.3 liter engine and this one does not have a turbo but In the world Porsche now turbo just means fast, stop clutching your pearls and get used to it.

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, this is what it's going to be like and finally our last item on the back of this car, this is a sports Porsche, so let's do the same. I do every time I review a high performance Porsche car, let's listen to that exhaust note, here you go anyway, nowI want to move on to the front trunk and there are two ways to open the front trunk, one that I showed you before, you can use the screen or you can just press a little button on the key fob, it makes the trunk open up to here, then there is a little latch which sits underneath and then you can open it quite simply, interestingly it's a bit small for a car that has of this front space there isn't much usable storage space in the front boot but it's there and it's nice to have two different boots , especially since the rear is also relatively small, which makes this car more practical and finally we move on to the styling of this car. and I have to say that I like it, like most people, from what I've seen, it has a nice look, very slick aerodynamics and still has the look of a Porsche.

It's a very nice car and certainly looks better than basically any other electric car on the market. today yes including tesla one thing i will say is that i wish porsche had started an electric car with a sports car as that would be more true to the spirit of porsche but sports cars don't really get many sales these days as They probably would have. It was a mistake from a business perspective, but from a car enthusiast's perspective, I think it would have been great. Another noteworthy item on the exterior of this car are these wheels. Porsche calls them Mission e wheels because they're supposed to mimic the ones that were on the original Mission e concept and, frankly, I have to say they did a pretty good job.

Here is the concept of mission e. You can see what it looks like and then what this car looks like. Obviously, it's surprising when an automaker comes this close to a concept. car to reality, but they've done it here, so if you liked the mission e when it came out as a concept car and received a lot of attention, you'll almost certainly like the Tycon too and those are the quirks and features of the porsche 2020 tycon turbo s now is the time to take it out on the road and see how well it handles driving the titan.

I'm going to start by just hitting, oh wow, I have to say I step on it after it gets going, it feels like that. Like a really fast gas car, but that first explosion is the craziest flat I've ever had, you're holding on for dear life, oh my god, it's so fast, wow, oh my god, that's crazy, I can't. I think that I just experienced that one of the first things I notice when I drive this car is the quality, the difference between Tesla and Porsche. You know, I have to say that one thing that really surprised me was when Porsche came out.

The price of this car was something else. The Internet lost its mind. How is it so expensive? You know, the Tesla Model S is much cheaper. First of all, Porsche has never been cheaper than anything else. I mean, if you look at the 911, if you look at the Cayenne x3. versus macan porsche is always more expensive the theory is that because porsche is better it doesn't take much to improve the interior quality of tesla tesla provides an excellent vehicle uh in terms of value they are able to offer enormous range and technology in a car that doesn't is so expensive compared to its rivals, what Tesla doesn't offer is the ability to do track lap after track lap without overheating, the ability to have a very, very high quality exclusive interior, and the result of that is that yes .

This car is more expensive, although the theory is that it is also better and with just a second of walking in here and looking around you can see that the quality is an obvious improvement. I will say that address 2 is clearly top notch. Tesla's management is excellent. very tight ratio, they turn very fast, but one thing this car does is, like the performance of the Model 3 I drove recently, it doesn't run as well, incredibly planted, flat and stable, and you don't really feel much when you're taking it. curves, this feels like a 911, like a sports car, to a point that basically few other electric vehicles oh my god, it's this fast.

I can't believe how fast this car is. I will say I've been driving for four minutes. and I've covered 20 miles of range, so it's exciting to let off the gas and keep going. I really wonder if you can probably drive an hour like that. That's not the intended efficiency mode if that's what you want. Yes, the steering is just fantastic, the car because it is very low and wide, it is perfectly set up for cornering. It's not just that the steering is good, the car also handles tremendously well mid-corner coming out of corners, it feels like a Porsche sports car.

It feels like a 911. To me, it feels faster and sportier than the Panamera. Which I think I've always felt, it feels like a bigger boat type car. This doesn't feel like it and now I want to try the electric. sporty sound oh I hope you can hear that on camera there's like a futuristic type sound that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life now I'm like walking through a kind of standard residential neighborhood um you know because most of the Sometimes people aren't going to put their foot down or corner hard in this car, it really behaves like a nice luxury gas car except you don't really hear anything, it's just fantastic and drives well and feels good.

It looks good and it looks good here and this is a really impressive car to me this is how Porsche makes an electric car it drives like a Porsche it's fast it's fun it's exciting it's a lot of fun to drive and that's the 2020 porsche tycoon turbo s, This is a fantastic car, but Porsche is playing ketchup, they don't have the charging infrastructure that Tesla has, they don't have the range that Tesla has and this car is much more expensive than Tesla vehicles. but this car is much higher quality than a tesla, the performance is crazy, the brand is fantastic and this is the first car that is really equal to tesla in advertising and the advertising is worth it anyway, now is the time to give the ticon turbo s a doug rating.

Starting with the weekend categories and the design of the ticon turbo s is nice, although a little controversial and not exactly classic, and it gets acceleration of seven out of ten, it's crazy, as you can see, it does zero to sixty in two and a half seconds, which easily gives Him a ten out of ten. Handling is excellent, though not as good as my favorite four-door cars, and it gets a six out of 10. The fun factor is huge given the acceleration and handling, and it gets an 8 out of 10. 10. The cool factor is huge right now and easily gets an 8 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 39 out of 50.

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. and gets an 8 out of 10. comfort is average for the class and gets a 7 out of 10. quality is very high and gets an 8 out of 10. practicality is average due to the 4 seats and small trunks and gets a 5 out of 10. finally value and this car is really awesome but it's also very expensive 185k is crazy and that's before options it's very expensive and gets a 5 out of 10 for a total daily score of 33 out of 50. If you Added up, Doug's score is 72 out of 100, putting it up here against other high-performance sedans and electric vehicles.

Surprisingly the ticon turbo ties the auto, i think it's its closest competitor, the mercedes amg gt sedan, they both get 72, but the amg gt does better in the everyday categories thanks to better technology and more reasonable prices, while the tycon fares better in overall weekend scores. The tycon is really impressive but it's also very expensive if you want the charging port to close just slide your fingers back under the sensor. and indeed the charging port eventually