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After months of wait, I finally picked up my 2025 Macan Turbo today. Specs-wise:
Still spent 15ish minutes setting the car to my liking, playing with the plethora of options in the PCM. This thing is snappy, very pleased!
During that time, I also got to marvel at how nice the Turbonite accents are: I really didn’t like them outside but inside, it really works.
I didn’t opt for the full leather package and am very happy with the result as is, it’s definitely premium to me - glad I didn’t spend the extra $2k.
The central console in high gloss looks great but marks like crazy, I already ordered a protective film from Suncoast: it’s a must have.
Battery was charged at 99% and when I sat in the car and turned the engine on, the guesstimated range was 280.
By the time I was ready to go (so about 20 minutes later), it was showing 298 miles of range. Maybe had I waited another 15 minutes, the range would have broken 300 miles?
Right off the bat, the car is very agile: navigating out of the parking lot was eye opening, the car needs very little space to do u-turns. Similarly entering my garage tonight, I had to adjust the steering wheel as I was getting close to the wall much quicker than I’m used to.
The lane change at speed didn’t wow me as much, at least not yet - I will need to put more miles on the car to get a good sense.
Speaking of speed, no launch control for now, I had a friend following in another car and so mostly behaved.
I was however surprised on a couple occasions that I was going north of 80mph - you do *not* feel the speed at all in this car. From a standstill (toll booth), the acceleration is powerful and you get to 75mph in the blink of an eye. But also in traffic, being stuck behind a truck and then switching lanes to overtake it, the pull is delightful!
No chance to really test twists and turns - but getting close to home, there is essentially a very long U-turn exiting the turnpike and this one, at speed, was superb. I felt very confident going faster than usual and I could almost hear the car going “is that all you got?”… promising.
One weird issue however: I tried to engage the adaptive cruise control but it wouldn’t let me because was seatbelt wasn’t fastened. It obviously was. After stopping the car once home and restarting it, the issue went away. I’ll have to keep an eye on this one.
Lastly, I got home with 193 miles of guesstimated range left after driving just shy of 103 miles. That would mean 296 total instead of the initial 298 guesstimation - pretty close.
67% SOH at arrival means I used 32% of battery = about 30.4 kWh. That puts me over 3.3 mi/kWh (!).
Granted I had slow moving traffic for a long stretch towards the end… but I also had sustained stretches at 75-80mph.
The above:
Won’t be able to drive it for a couple days now and these are obviously just first impressions, to be validated and challenged with a lot more miles on the car. But I’m very optimistic and truly enthused with the car so far!
Well done Porsche, well done.
- Ice Grey Metallic exterior, no badges
- Black/Turbonite interior
- 21” Michelin on Turbo rims
- Sport Chrono package
- Rear Axle Steering
- Innodrive with ALK
- A few other minor things
Still spent 15ish minutes setting the car to my liking, playing with the plethora of options in the PCM. This thing is snappy, very pleased!
During that time, I also got to marvel at how nice the Turbonite accents are: I really didn’t like them outside but inside, it really works.
I didn’t opt for the full leather package and am very happy with the result as is, it’s definitely premium to me - glad I didn’t spend the extra $2k.
The central console in high gloss looks great but marks like crazy, I already ordered a protective film from Suncoast: it’s a must have.
Battery was charged at 99% and when I sat in the car and turned the engine on, the guesstimated range was 280.
By the time I was ready to go (so about 20 minutes later), it was showing 298 miles of range. Maybe had I waited another 15 minutes, the range would have broken 300 miles?
Right off the bat, the car is very agile: navigating out of the parking lot was eye opening, the car needs very little space to do u-turns. Similarly entering my garage tonight, I had to adjust the steering wheel as I was getting close to the wall much quicker than I’m used to.
The lane change at speed didn’t wow me as much, at least not yet - I will need to put more miles on the car to get a good sense.
Speaking of speed, no launch control for now, I had a friend following in another car and so mostly behaved.
I was however surprised on a couple occasions that I was going north of 80mph - you do *not* feel the speed at all in this car. From a standstill (toll booth), the acceleration is powerful and you get to 75mph in the blink of an eye. But also in traffic, being stuck behind a truck and then switching lanes to overtake it, the pull is delightful!
No chance to really test twists and turns - but getting close to home, there is essentially a very long U-turn exiting the turnpike and this one, at speed, was superb. I felt very confident going faster than usual and I could almost hear the car going “is that all you got?”… promising.
One weird issue however: I tried to engage the adaptive cruise control but it wouldn’t let me because was seatbelt wasn’t fastened. It obviously was. After stopping the car once home and restarting it, the issue went away. I’ll have to keep an eye on this one.
Lastly, I got home with 193 miles of guesstimated range left after driving just shy of 103 miles. That would mean 296 total instead of the initial 298 guesstimation - pretty close.
67% SOH at arrival means I used 32% of battery = about 30.4 kWh. That puts me over 3.3 mi/kWh (!).
Granted I had slow moving traffic for a long stretch towards the end… but I also had sustained stretches at 75-80mph.
The above:
- On a TURBO
- That had 17 miles on the ODO when I took the keys (therefore limited regen)
- Running on 21” Michelin all-season wheels
- In temperatures ranging between 41 and 38 F.
Won’t be able to drive it for a couple days now and these are obviously just first impressions, to be validated and challenged with a lot more miles on the car. But I’m very optimistic and truly enthused with the car so far!
Well done Porsche, well done.
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Just kidding, looks great! Definitely curious to hear more about InnoDrive, I'm not yet at the point where I regret not having it, but you never know.
