The Watermelon - Taycan CT4S
Discussion
After a few months delays it finally arrived in October.
Circa 3k miles in now and still really enjoying it.
We went for a slightly left field for the choice of colour - Mamba Green with Bordeaux Red Leather interior.
Spec wise; 4S, Folding mirrors, Bose, 20" wheels, surround camera, black rather than silver plastic, tinted windows
Circa 3k miles in now and still really enjoying it.
We went for a slightly left field for the choice of colour - Mamba Green with Bordeaux Red Leather interior.
Spec wise; 4S, Folding mirrors, Bose, 20" wheels, surround camera, black rather than silver plastic, tinted windows
I love the colour combination as well. 
To me the lease route is an opportunity to choose a spec combination that I’d like and not worry about the resale.
I quite like it although I wouldn’t have the guts to do it myself!
Top choice OP!!
I also have a Taycan CT 4s on order (also as a lease but a more conservative colour combo of Gentain with slate interior ) I am pondering the carmine red and may end up changing at spec lock-in time.
I quite like it although I wouldn’t have the guts to do it myself!
Top choice OP!!
I also have a Taycan CT 4s on order (also as a lease but a more conservative colour combo of Gentain with slate interior ) I am pondering the carmine red and may end up changing at spec lock-in time.
RDMcG said:
I would have thought the attention would have been positive. Great colour combo and great car!
All the attention has been positive. Either people are being polite or they genuinely like it.Friends that knew the proposed colour combo before it arrived have also been very pleasantly surprised
RC1807 said:
Great car.
Unusual colour combination, but the nickname is perfect!
I look forward to updates as your mileage increases, with only one other Taycan being reports upon in Readers' Cars, IIRC.
A couple of small niggles from delivery:Unusual colour combination, but the nickname is perfect!
I look forward to updates as your mileage increases, with only one other Taycan being reports upon in Readers' Cars, IIRC.
only a single key due to supply issues
Wireless charging doesn’t work (missing a module)
A couple of rattles (drivers seat)
It’s going in to the garage in Jan to have that taken care of (along with some bodywork where someone hit it whilst it was parked up).
Overall experience has been great to date (bar the niggles above), I wish we’d specified the memory seats as my wife and I have significantly different seating positions and the Bose stereo is lacking bass (compared to the HK system in my XC90).
For day to day the standard brakes are good but you do know it’s a heavy car if you need to stand on them. I’d love to try a car with the ceramic options.
pmanson said:
A couple of small niggles from delivery:
only a single key due to supply issues
Wireless charging doesn’t work (missing a module)
A couple of rattles (drivers seat)
It’s going in to the garage in Jan to have that taken care of (along with some bodywork where someone hit it whilst it was parked up).
Overall experience has been great to date (bar the niggles above), I wish we’d specified the memory seats as my wife and I have significantly different seating positions and the Bose stereo is lacking bass (compared to the HK system in my XC90).
For day to day the standard brakes are good but you do know it’s a heavy car if you need to stand on them. I’d love to try a car with the ceramic options.
Do the ceramics make a big difference? I thought they improved repeated braking performance rather than improve an individual stop? only a single key due to supply issues
Wireless charging doesn’t work (missing a module)
A couple of rattles (drivers seat)
It’s going in to the garage in Jan to have that taken care of (along with some bodywork where someone hit it whilst it was parked up).
Overall experience has been great to date (bar the niggles above), I wish we’d specified the memory seats as my wife and I have significantly different seating positions and the Bose stereo is lacking bass (compared to the HK system in my XC90).
For day to day the standard brakes are good but you do know it’s a heavy car if you need to stand on them. I’d love to try a car with the ceramic options.
Heartworm said:
Do the ceramics make a big difference? I thought they improved repeated braking performance rather than improve an individual stop?
I would suggest that the ceramics make little difference in any kind of road use. They are of course much cleaner as they produce minimal brake dust. I tracked my ST Turbo at the Nürburgring and Spa ( not my usual type of car but had to do it). At Spa in particular which is Godawful quick I had to some in to cool the brakes and drop tire pressures but it was surprising how a car of that size could handle without ceramics:
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