Macan 4 EV Range Test by Bjorn Nyland

[Fun TC Driving]

Bjorn really likes the way it handles, loves the Bose, and more, but its 22’’s effected its range

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[Hawk_Tuah]

He’d pick the Q6 over the macan in the end. I don’t know how he came to the conclusion - he normally is a smart guy…

 

[Big Grack]

He did say that if you valued space and range efficiency then chose the Audi with the implication that if you valued the quality of the drive. handling etc. and the sound system then choose the Porsche - only the second inference was left unspoken!

 

[Fly4ever]

An Audi is just an Audi whilst a Porsche is (and ever was) a Porsche.As simple as that.Period.
There are so many people who all of their lives dream to be fortunate enough and get a Porsche sometime.Are there so many dreaming they sometime may get an...Audi?Only if it were the R8 and then again only a handful of them.
Such comparisons are ridiculous and mostly useless... Porsche vs Tesla, Porsche vs Kia, Porsche vs Hyundai's,vs Xiaomi's...vs Audi's... simply because no one who thinks to get "just" a car would ever even think this car to be a Porsche.Exactly the same,no one who is thinking to fulfill a childhood dream getting a Porsche would ever replace it with something else instead.

 

[PrudentOcean]

There are plenty of very nice Audis, and I happen to think they do technology and interiors better than Porsche.

However, Porsche does driving dynamics and driver focus better.

I didn’t get this car for its prestige or what other drivers think of it. I wanted something with a decent amount of room but not too large for city living, with enough performance to satisfy my history of high performance track events and auto crossing. I could have gotten better tech, range and frankly a better value from a different brand.

 

[CJ-4S]

Interestingly, Audi advertise better range on the SQ6 vs the Q6 quattro version despite the larger wheels - this is largely due to the air suspension allowing lower ride height and better aerodynamics.
All the Macan tests I've seen (including Bjorns) are with the car in 'Normal' mode. Would be great to see what benefit it would get from the suspension in the lowest setting...
Changing from 22" to 20" wheels should gain a 7-8% range benefit too.

 

[Dragon Tourniquet]

There are plenty of very nice Audis, and I happen to think they do technology and interiors better than Porsche.

However, Porsche does driving dynamics and driver focus better.

I didn’t get this car for its prestige or what other drivers think of it. I wanted something with a decent amount of room but not too large for city living, with enough performance to satisfy my history of high performance track events and auto crossing. I could have gotten better tech, range and frankly a better value from a different brand.

My thoughts are similar. I didn't get the Macan instead of the Q6 because of prestige or how it looks. For me was handling, more physical controls for climate (now if only there was a dedicated "previous" button on the stereo), and I do like the interior a bit better, but not significantly so.

 

[Hawk_Tuah]

There are plenty of very nice Audis, and I happen to think they do technology and interiors better than Porsche.

However, Porsche does driving dynamics and driver focus better.

I didn’t get this car for its prestige or what other drivers think of it. I wanted something with a decent amount of room but not too large for city living, with enough performance to satisfy my history of high performance track events and auto crossing. I could have gotten better tech, range and frankly a better value from a different brand.

Audi is pure plastic from the inside. How can you say the interior is better? I owned several Audis years ago, but in the past 10 years they took a awfully wrong direction in designing their interior and sometimes exterior. More and more hard ugly plastic inside and dumb decisions outside like the fake exhaust pipes on S models. I mean, look at the new steering wheel

The macan isn’t without its flaws, but the design and built quality of that car is excellent. The used materials are one of its kind for a 2025 car.

 

[Wivenhoe]

Sometime ago, I test drove an Audi E Sportback and it came with cameras not wing mirrors. Horrendous experience, you have to take your eyes completely off the road and look down and then right or left. I told the sales guy I wanted a car without them and he said they were standard fit as Audi buyers wanted the ‘leading edge’ technology in their cars.
Having told him that just because you can do something it doesn’t mean you should, I asked him about winter driving and how were the cameras kept clean and ice free - he said they were just cameras so it was a good point.
Suffice to say, Porsche don't offer them in the myriad of options.

 

[Fly4ever]

...BTW does anybody knows how the Q6 sales are doing?If the car really is so similar to Macan must be already a success in its segment given its lower price,which price IMHO it's so close to Macan's that someone capable to buy it would certainly reconsider to pay something extra and get a Porsche instead!

 

[Fly4ever]

...And maybe Audi's (same counts also for other well-known brands) are good cars even though rather expensive for what they actually are with some of them more than it deserves...but anyway do you remember that sticker at the back of the cars?It was fairly common around here back in the days...I don't remember seeing one stating something else instead of "Porsche" unless someone wanted to troll the whole thing.

 

[Awaz]

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[stevo58]

If the car really is so similar to Macan must be already a success in its segment given its lower price,which price IMHO it's so close to Macan's that someone capable to buy it would certainly reconsider to pay something extra and get a Porsche instead!

Long-time Audi driver here. Thirty-five years. I‘ve owned an 80 (4000 in the US), 100 (5000), A4 Avant, A6 Sedan, A6 Avant, and an A1. The A6 Avant, which I am still driving (until my Macan 4 arrives) is a 2006. It is in excellent condition and could easily run well for at least another ten years. I’ll be getting up there by then though, and we decided it was time to go electric. But the A6 is a well-built, comfortable, reliable car.

When we decided to go electric, we obviously looked at Audis first. To our horror, we found the materials give a cheap impression, unlike the 2006. The cheap plastic “grill” really annoyed me - it looks like it came out of a cereal box. They also apparently fired all of their good designers. The cars all look like rejects from a Transformers movie (we later realized this is simply the current fashion).

So we looked at BMW and Mercedes. Tesla wasn’t even a consideration. My wife suggested we look at Porsche (we were leaning to the BMW iX5) and I laughed, but she talked me into going to the dealer and checking it out. We found good exterior design, for-the-most-part good materials (a bit more plastic than I like, but what are you going to do?) and excellent workmanship. It was fun to drive but we were confused by the noise level (the sport sound was turned up loud. Didn’t order that option when it came time).

Here’s my point - after pricing the Q6 eTron, ix5, and Macan 4 the way we wanted them, the Macan wasn’t significantly more expensive than the other two. Maybe €10k, but in this price class that’s not significant. Especially considering we are also installing photovoltaic at home, which we consider a part of the car price. For that 10k we get a car which at the very least gives the impression of much higher quality materials and workmanship.

For me, a car is a just a tool, but I wouldn’t buy a cheap router either. You get what you pay for, that hasn’t changed. Some things are technical, physical, some are experience, and some are emotional, and to my surprise as a non-car-freak, owning a Porsche - even if it’s not a 911 - turns out to have emotional value.

By the way, if anyone can tell me how to change that little flag, I’d appreciate it. Last time I checked, I don’t live in Korea.

 

[Petzi]

in your account click on “account details”. there you can edit your country.

 

[cometguy]

There are plenty of very nice Audis, and I happen to think they do technology and interiors better than Porsche.

However, Porsche does driving dynamics and driver focus better.

I didn’t get this car for its prestige or what other drivers think of it. I wanted something with a decent amount of room but not too large for city living, with enough performance to satisfy my history of high performance track events and auto crossing. I could have gotten better tech, range and frankly a better value from a different brand.

I agree... on my fourth Porsche, and it's not because of prestige -- in fact, I special-order my cars and black out badging (or eliminate badging) and keep exterior colors subdued because I don't want to be overly obvious, for a variety of reasons including worries about parking the car in public and knowing that lots of idiots out there are eager to do damage to luxury cars.
That's one reason I'd never get a Mercedes -- because they look to ostentatious (not to mention they look ugly and tacky, inside and out to me).

I get Porsches because I like to drive and like to feel safe at high speeds. The cockpits in Porsches are second to none in my opinion -- driver controls are superb and where they should be for serious drivers; no other car costing < $150k has that, in my opinion. And Porsche seats are, in my experience, at the top of the auto industry (along with Volvo seats); for long trips, that's very important to me because I have a history of lower-back problems. Porsche hit a home run with the layout of the Macan EV cockpit, in my opinion, regarding physical switches coming back for climate controls, a dial for volume and on/off audio, the placement of the cupholders down low like they did, the reverting to a good center-concole storage box (vs. Taycan), and a great storage area for phone and cables.

The other reason why I like Porsches is because of how you can option them in so many different ways, to get what you want (generally) and not get what you don't want (much of the time); to me, it's worth the extra cost because of the many things you can option that other automakers don't let you option. People often miss this when they complain about Porsche prices (and I complain about them too!), but we're talking a certain amount of cost to have so many ways to option a car to your own tastes, and you have to expect a price for that ability.

People have commented on the cheaper interior plastics that seem to have come out recently in Macan and Cayenne, but they're not really issues to me for the most part. My biggest gripes with modern Porsches are the shiny "piano-black" surfaces, which nobody seems to like and everybody seems to hate, and I can't understand why Porsche doesn't go for more leather (or even partial leather) on the passenger side (where the optional passenger screen goes) and on the lower panels. Matte-black surfaces would be so much better regarding fingerprint smudging and reflections of sunlight. And Porsche isn't alone in the "piano black" surfaces; I'd like to hear some explanations from design departments at these automakers as to why they'd even consider this...

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