Macan EV

How’s the reliability on the e-tron GT? Does it have the same heater issues etc?

The plan Porsche has for meeting minimum BEV percentage thresholds must be based on the Macan EV selling well which it inevitably will whatever people say about range and price, unless Starmer kills the BIK bribe but that is unlikely. The thing that gets me wondering is that any delay to these cars might cause Porsche a problem with the 2024 stats.

You may be right about the Macan EV selling well regardless, however as someone who has had a £3K deposit against one for over 2 years I’m very disappointed about 1. The cut away rear end and 2. just how expensive it actually is. Unless you own your own business (which I don’t) and hence get some decent tax breaks there are plenty other cars which make way more sense financially. Spending £105/10K on a turbo with a few creature comforts seems (in my eyes at least) crazy!

Porsche might have missed a trick here they maybe should have thought about carrying the pricing over from the ICE cars. The Macan was a nice little entry into the brand our base one was about 57k with a nice spec. £23000 more now for the equivalent and no chance of having residuals as solid.

Then again if you look at the alternatives a Polestar is 3 80k 85 with performance pack plus add a bit more to both for spec. The Eletre is a load more. Tesla a lot cheaper but who wants a Tesla? Looking at it through that lens they have the pricing bang on. Polestar 2 is an interesting alternative at about 60 though. I couldn't get the Mrs into one though!

Really ugly from the back. The front looks like a nice evolution of current generation. As others have said, I’m guessing that these will follow the same downward curve of the Taycan.

Ha, Porsche might have peaked with the most “that should be standard but is an option”

A rear wiper…. On an SUV. Porsche I love you but ffs!!

How so? If ICE cars start jumping £15k then no one will buy them and the manufacturer will be left with un-bought cars in fields. That can't be good for business.

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Adding 15k to the price of a 911 likely isn't the biggest of deals. I imagine doing so on the entry level Cayman might be... But also suspect they'll add less there and more on 911s. And then tune the order book. I doubt it's also coincidence that the electric boxster/cayman is nearly here.

Adding penalties on Polos and Golfs will be harder. But I reckon there'll be less resistance to those being electric anyway.

I expect all manufacturers will have to work on less volume moving forwards (the right thing if green is king). Watch out for more "subscription" models a la Volvo....

Porsche told the market that they would charge 15% more for EVs and that their customers would pay it and volumes wouldn't be affected, all part of the plan when they spun off Porsche from VW, the aim was to attract P/E multiples more akin to a high end luxury brand, it worked for a while but they have been trading below the IPO for the last 2 months as the market lost faith that they could achieve such returns, but to U turn now would send the share price further down.

There is no base Macan EV currently to compare to the 265hp ICE Macan, the Macan 4 is 408hp so equal to the S ICE version 60k plays 70k or around 15% increase just as they promised.

I think there will be one at around 60k perhaps a single motor front wheel drive one, I was pointing out that the comparison between the Macan 4 and the current base ICE Macan wasn't apples for apples.