Pretty soon there are going to be two different Porsche Macans. They won't share the same platform, the same powertrains, or the same bodywork. The current Macan is based on the same platform as it has been since it was introduced in 2014. The next Macan will be all-electric and based on the Volkswagen family PPE platform. Both the gasoline Macan …
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Rod Emory is working on a hard core off-road Porsche Macan Baja
It seems like off-road Porsches are all the rage these days. We've seen totally rad Cayennes from E-Motion Engineering, awesome off-roading in Moab, and even Porsche themselves are getting in on the Cayenne craze. And that's to say nothing of the safari 911 trend that has been blowing up in this community for the last decade. The next logical …
Continue to the full articleAn Electric Porsche Macan Is Nearly Here — Packing More Range Than A Taycan
With production rumored to begin next year, Porsche has been on the road to building a new all-electric Macan for a long time by now. This attempt at a world-beating EV crossover is Porsche firing across the bow of the Tesla Model Y and Ford Mustang Mach-E. Jointly developed with Volkswagen, the new Macan will ride on the Premium Platform Electric …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Is On Track To Deliver 20,000 Taycans In 2020
Porsche's first all-electric car has proven to be a sales success already. The German marque can't even build these things as fast as it can sell them. The six-figure Tesla-beater is selling in numbers bigger than any other sports car Porsche currently builds, losing out to only the SUV models in the company's lineup. Despite the challenges of …
Continue to the full articleHow Does The Porsche Macan Turbo Perform In A Drag Race?
Stack Porsche's new Macan Turbo up against Alfa's Stelvio Quadrifoglio and Audi's RS Q3 in a drag race and you've got a proper battle of the European sporty compact SUVs. They're all very expensive, very heavy, and very powerful. So which company makes the quickest one? From a standstill, the Macan Turbo has a clear advantage with Porsche's …
Continue to the full articleThe 2020 Porsche Macan GTS Is Quite A Remarkable Thing
If you give a gorgeous Miami Blue Macan GTS to Henry Catchpole in Portugal, you're going to end up with an edifying and insightful video about the car in question, and because the Carfection crew is so good, it'll have delightful visuals and editing to boot. The real question here is whether or not the new Macan GTS is as good as the old one was. …
Continue to the full articleThe New Macan GTS Is Finally Here
One key model was missing from the Macan model range following the 2019 updates to the model- the GTS. The updated model range did somewhat confuse the old nomenclature wherein the model branded as the "Turbo" received a larger displacement engine, despite all models being equipped with turbochargers. Today all V6-powered Macans, including the …
Continue to the full articleThe New Macan Turbo Is A Practical Performance Porsche
Porsche has already confirmed that this will be the final generation of Macan to be powered by a gasoline engine, moving to a fully electric lineup in the next generation. The thing is, when Porsche changes tack, they always move the nameplate to its ultimate progression before making that commitment to change. The new Macan Turbo is perhaps the …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Cars North America Sales By Model: August 2019
Porsche Cars North America sold 553 more cars in August of 2019 versus August of 2018. Much of this increase was carried by a massive increase in new Cayenne sales, while all other models experienced a small decrease year over year, even the perennially popular Macan. Cayenne was still in that transition phase last year between the outgoing model …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Cars North America Sales By Model: April 2019
Where Porsche's sales are down globally, somehow Porsche Cars North America is having a decent year as it prepares for an eighth consecutive record year of retail sales in a row. While April sales declined slightly, largely due to a decline in Macan availability as the new model has just started to roll out nationwide, the American importer has …
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