DinSide: The market for premium SUVs continues to increase. Now, Porsche’s contribution, Macan, and we have test driven the car to be the most sporting car in the class of compact SUV.
A look at the available engine options give clear signals about the purpose of the car.
Norway starting the car at around 800 000. When you get a 211-horsepower engine with more than enough torque to have fun. If you’re an average customer of such vehicles, add equipment for around 150 000.
car launches in Norway 5 April, and now all that is available until September, is already sold.
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Known operator environment
Inside, everything seems familiar. It’s like coming back to a place we’ve been before. Buttons are located where they have always done in a Porsche, and the ignition key has of course its own place on the left side of the steering wheel. Female voice navigation system is also known, and it is almost as we say thank you for last.
Materials and perceived quality is just like all other vehicles from Porsche, so Macan bears no means evidence of being a savings product . The effectiveness and cost savings are made entirely elsewhere – in the production line.
The driver’s seat is in other words a nice place to sit down, because the environment is very good. Front makes you small to put you into a smaller car than the Cayenne , but the further back it is natural enough not just space. In the back seat, we were excited at the ceiling, but even with a roofline that slopes down early to give the impression of a more coupe-like style, so they have enough space for even the most lofty.
Luggage space in Macan is provided to 500 liters with all seatbacks up. Then you can play musical chairs until you have a trunk that measures 1,500 liters.
Four and one
Macan will be initially launched with four engine options, as you can see in the table at the bottom. The smallest 211-PS engine, a car that really made except for Belgium and Norway. These are adjusted down to fit the tax system. The other options are as in other markets.
Porsche has chosen to put the car up with a PDK double-clutch transmission as standard. You can, in other words not choose manual, not even as an accessory. This is no reason to be depressed by as PDK gearbox is the most efficient in terms of consumption, safety and driveability. In addition, some of the features of the car that would not have been possible in combination with manual transmission.
Three different bases
You have three different bases to choose from. You can get passive steel springs, steel springs in combination with PASM (Porsche Active Suspension Management), or air springs that always comes with PASM.
In virtually all cars from Porsche, I would recommend choosing one of the systems that are available with this PASM system.
This allows the chassis changes the nature of the driving style you choose, giving you an extra dimension to a car which after all is designed to be sporty. If you decide you would choose no, then never a Porsche as a hammock, but you’ll thank yourself later for the ability to adjust the layout itself.
Renowned platform
Porsche Macan is known based on the platform of Audi Q5 , which mostly means the bottom plate and the inner wheel arches. The rest is redefined by Porsche to suit their clientele. To think that the cars are the same so long as they share the platform is as wrong as believing that two cakes must be equal because they are fried in the same baking sheet.
In many areas it can be said that Porsche still there Audi has ended.
All controllable with throttle
Porsche has its own test track at its factory in Leipzig, a fun track that has copied items from other famous courses around the world, from Laguna Seca in California, the Fuji circuit in Japan.
Although the path is not over just under four kilometers long, so it still has a profusion of fun combinations.
car turns out to be very well balanced, and should you find to provoke too much, let’s all easy control with accelerator. In all engine options are there enough strength to all situations.
Turbo edition is of course the one that stands out on the court, but out on the road we found Macan S diesel just as interesting. It has also more torque than its petrol brother, Macan Turbo, and the lower part of the rev range where you normally reside most.
Active aids
The steering is among the things Porsche has been very good, but they have also experience to be gained from big brother Cayenne. The PTV system (Porsche Torque Vectoring) it is near impossible to get the car to be under controlled, as long as you do blisters of some driver error.
Wheel drive system helps to ensure correct balancing at any time, and it distributes the force lynkjapt to the wheels that need highest operational in every situation.
Porsche has also given back wheels about two percent larger rolling circumference than the front wheels. This is to trick AWD system into thinking that it is a little wheel spin at once. This connects the weak, and is therefore never completely. This makes it even faster when you actually need it, with quicker response.
Works fine in terrain
If for any reason you were to take the new Macan out in the field, it is absolutely capable. Porsche wheel-drive system has the facilities to be, and few have such a great opportunity for variation in the power distribution.
Are offered at a switching from 100 percent pure RWD 100 percent front-wheel drive – including everything in between. In addition, it slows the wheels that have little grip, and transfer to the wheels with the best grip. If need be extreme, you also have the option of full barrier system through PTM (Porsche Traction Management), and when there is little to stop a Macan.
Program choice for off-road-connection at all speeds up to 80 km / h Then change all auxiliary character for prioritizing traffic flow above all.
PHC system (Porsche Hill Control) helps you down the steep slopes, and can be adjusted to the speeds of three to 30 km / h. In combination with air suspension can raise the ground clearance by 40 millimeters to 230 millimeters, which also changes the angle of attack considerably.
Wading depth on a Macan is 30 centimeters, and the restriction is not in the vents, but the air vent on the gearbox . Water in the lubricant is natural enough not desirable.
Sport or Sport Plus
Porsche has a motto that every car they make will be a sporty car, and Macan is no exception. It should follow the trend of Cayenne, which is the more sporty you can get in its class.
Ticking of the Sport Chrono equipment list becomes even more athletic. When you get buttons for Sport and Sport Plus in the center console. These are accessories that most easily distinguished with the analog and digital instrument up on the dashboard.
These give you more aggressive modes in situations that require it. The chassis is tightened up, the idle speed increases, the maximum speed is increased, and the program for gearshift change to a more performance-based program. In addition, it allows for launch-control. In measurable result, this gives you 0.2 seconds better time from zero to 100 km / h.
It is still under sporty driving system is the real payoff. Not primarily in the acceleration.
Efficiency
Even at sporting cars must be envisaged efficiency and fuel economy. All engines in the new Macan is Euro 6 certification, and when it is completely natural with items such as start / stop function, which switches off coasting gear every time you veer off and regeneration of braking power.
Should you still feel that this type of cars are environmentally swine dimensions, I am sorry to bring bad news. The class of compact SUVs are on the increase. In fact, it has increased from 464,000 vehicles worldwide in 2007 to over 1.3 million vehicles in 2014. In 2019, the estimate for the number of sold cars in this class of well over 1.7 million cars, and in 2024 Porsche believes it to be traded close to 1.9 million compact SUVs. This is the number that is in harmony with other manufacturers’ estimates.
By this reckon Porsche as a highly exclusive supplier, with only two to three per cent of the total.
year of Norway awarded around 200 cars, with the hope of more if the sale would indicate that.
On the road
Handling is Porsche’s advantage, also here. It is difficult to arrest Macan on specific points. In addition, there are so many versions with different equipment and packages to get, that if there is something you wish were different, they can always offer something that helps aid.
Inside it is also quiet and nice, but then when Porsche also defined as a premium brand. It shall not stand the noise, although mirror the houses are large and provide some wind noise when the speed starts to get high – take note, by German standards.
to block the wind noise is just book your car with the hefty audio package, preferably with DAB + radio, and you have other things to listen to than wind noise.
Fierce competition
Porsche Macan is not the only car in this segment. It must go out and compete with more and more options. Lexus is heading with its new NX in this segment, and BMW has always been there with X3 . Although they are related, are also Audi Q5 an option and Mercedes-Benz has its GLK .
Land Rover is also competing for customers in the premium class but has no direct competitor, other than Evoque, which is enough to be said to be a bit on the small side for being here.
Next year at this time we see the drawing on whether Porsche has succeeded or not.
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