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Nope, dedicated external speakers on old Taycans, shared speakers for 2025 Taycans but Bose option or higher is required in order to spec the car with the sport sound.

I use it when I drive my Taycan at night on rural roads to warn/scare animals away. Discovered this usecase by accident when Taycan navigation took me through some state park in the middle of the night for some reason, and while on some gravel road I got literally surrounded by a bunch of deer...

Just to clarify, when I said "buying for the badge" I meant "buying for the brand", I did not mean "buying to show off to others" - that would only be a subset of badge seekers. Others buying for the badge are brand loyalists, or people who like particular brand's products, whether because they...

You are not wrong about the EV realities. I think however Porsche is marketing to ICE car buyers, not EV buyers. Macan EV is a replacement for the ICE version (which is being discontinued in EU). Most of Porsche lineup is ICE too, so they position their EVs within the ICE lineup. IMHO currently...

Hmmm... they moved the charging ports to the back, so anyone switching from a Taycan would have to re-install their garage EVSE to a new location (or drag the cable if long enough). Anyone who would get a Macan EV as a second car could not charge in the Taycan parking place in the garage either...

If you're looking to avoid breakdown potentials, stay away from first production year of a new EV platform from a company which is still learning EVs, online services, software in general. Porsche has way more experience with air suspensions than EV drivetrains, or heaters. As a buyer of a brand...

I wonder if the Turbo aprons (front and back) are standard, or some Sport Design Package option. If the latter, you might be able to order it on a 4 too.

Porsche numbers are likely in Launch Mode only. Same as Taycan. No LC performance numbers are lower.

I wonder how much of that max power/acceleration requires Launch Mode from complete stop, i.w. how much power/torque is usable for anything other than drag racing.

My C4 options must have been expensive. Also, that over $100K I remember might have been the cost out the door. Then again, I put over $25K in options into the Taycan, with only about $1K being esthetics, so Porsche sure knows how to extract money from customers via options.

I'm not old enough to go back 50 years buying Porsches, but I bought my first one in 2001 - a 911C4, IIRC it costed me just over $100K USD. Today, 23 years later, 911C4 starts at $122K, so say $130 for matching package (I did not option the fist one, only got all the tech package and performance...

Ok, let's see if the new Taycan comes with a smaller, lighter battery matching the range of the current one, or will it come in heavier but with extra range.

Ha, ha, welcome to the 21st century car software conundrum - how long is the manufacturer on the hook to maintain the onboard software? 4 years, 8 years, 10 years, 20 years, 40 years? Nobody knows, and in a lot of circumstances nobody thought about it before they shipped the car out. It's a...

That's an equivalent of a $2,100 discount (7 years x ~$300). You can probably negotiate this kind of discount when buying today.

Automotive manufacturers need to make EV's compelling for people to buy, not count on some government legislation to force the sale of EV's. Elon proved it long ago, if you want to sell EV's, you build ones which people want over ICE car. Governments can help by providing incentives for EV...

Maybe I'm getting old, but when I see these announcements, I just think to myself "sure, let's see what actually gets delivered and when", given the typical disparity of announced features vs. delivered features. Once Macan EV shows up, I will definitely go test drive it. If it's good, it might...

Agreed, but if speed and acceleration with high budget limits is the overarching goal, should you not consider power more power vs. less power and gear box? Why was less power with gear box chosen over more power? More power solution yielded better result in a Model S Plaid which accelerates...

Merging into high speed highway lanes, coming off the ramp and choosing to merge into the high speed lane rather than build up speed in the slow lane first. Yes, I could just cut-off people in the fast, lane, but I prefer to merge and accelerate quickly, so the car behind doesn't have to slow...

So instead of KISS, Porsche uses KICS ethos? I'm imagining engineering office posters already - "What have you complexified today?" :CWL: Perhaps Honda hired Porsche engineers for this this commercial: In all seriousness, I get wanting to push the envelope for performance/speed, but doing it...

While you are correct about Normal mode, I figured out a while back to stop using it for this reason, so using mostly Sport and SportPlus. There is one drawback to this - in first gear at ~50mph (whcih happens to be my cruising speed on one of my common routes) the transmission makes an annoying...