New Porsche Macan Review - has it lost appeal

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the new Porsche Macan and it's a little bit like the location I've chosen to film the car you see it's a bit risky looks desirable but there is a chance I could fall in the water and drown likewise with Porsche its customers who love the ma May reject this new one because it's electric only now I'm going to tell you whether this car is any good in this video going to walk you around the exterior here's a baboon's bottom I'm going to show you the cabin this is one of the very biggest I'm going to tell you what's good about this car it work what's not so good about this car how much is your charge of life worth I'm of course going to take it for a drive and I'm going to launch it to see how quick it is from 0 to 60 MPH I'm Mt Watson and you're watching carwow let's start this video by talking about the design of the new Maan so from the rear it's familiar to the previous car but looks quite new because of the new light designs very thin you got F length light bar got the new Porsche 3D logo that's exposed as well some more like streaks and lines down here this being the turbo model it has a more aggressive rear bumper design which protrudes slightly and sort of reminds me of a baboon's bottom anyway this being the turbo as well look you've got these extra vents here over the standard car they're not actually vents they're fake they're just to make it look sporty moving down the side here wheel sizes start at 20 rise to 22 which is what this car has and there's a number of different designs to it as well once again being the turbo you get slightly different Windows around so they're like this kind of sort of like satiny effect whereas you just get matte black on the standard car these panels here you can have either in body color like on this car you can have them in black or you can have them in carbon fiber similar story really with the door mirrors so normally they're split color so body color at the top and then black at the bottom but you can have them full body color carbon fiber or matte black moving down to the front this is the biggest differentiator compared to the old Maan these are actually the daytime running lights and then the actual headlights are down here here a trend that was first started by citen I think on the old Picasso look one of the things I really like about the new Maan is that being electric it doesn't have to have a grill to cool the engine yes there is an air vent down here but this design makes it feel more sporty and more 911 and actually back in the day Porsches never had grills because the engine was always at the back so this is pretty much going back to their Roots now being a turbo this is more aggressive this part here with this front splitter and it does look quite cool doesn't it I like the design of this car this would be the color I would go for or sort of like metallic green there are a load of other different more exciting colors you might say but this is definitely my bag now something else to point out on the turbo is that there's now a new badge bespoke to the turbos look Porsche Crest is in this sort of like monochrome smoked effect sander car is just the normal badge you do have to pay quite a bit extra for the turbo though so the range for the Nan starts at just under £70,000 the turbo though is £95,000 which is pretty expensive here on the inside the Nema car feels very very different and more modern than the previous generation version clearly inspired by the tyan and the new knen so there's these straight lines here lots of screens as you can see so you got a digital driver's display there all digital D slightly curved screen really high definition by pressing a button on the steering wheel I can toggle between the different views and settings for the three dos like that there we go go to the next one as well so plenty of option and functionality with that then there's a main infotainment screen very similar to that in my 11 GT3 RS but it just seems slightly more responsive slightly sharper Graphics being able to control all the different functionality on the car then there's this optional screen it's about £1,000 extra and the passenger can then play with this satav all that kind of thing the entertainment system and watch videos on YouTube look there oh Auto Alex and German car wow don't know where the British carwow one is it's a bit sad isn't it anyhow quality in here yeah feels really nice this car does have the extend leather and it feels premium and look at that this is very Porsche isn't it straight straight stitching no higgledy piggledy action there obviously you can alter all the interior trims lots of choice if you don't like leather you can have artificial leather you can have race Tex which is basically Porsche's version of Alcantara but they don't have to pay Alcantara people for their Alcantara seats we got the turbo badging and the interesting thing on this car is that they've lowered the seat position by almost 3 cm compared to the old Maan justes make me wonder why have a jacked up SUV only to then sit lower suppose it gives you a bit more of a sporty Driving Experience but if you prefer to sit High look there is plenty of adjustment in the seat and you can sit quite High there's also plenty of adjustment in the steering wheel as well so you can move it just as you like plus there's a variety of different steering wheels to choose from on this steering wheel we have the drive mode selector so you can quickly toggle between your four different driving settings though if you want to you can go into the menu here and just alter some of the settings individually as you like let's check out some of the practicality cuz it does matter so underneath here some storage and it's quite deep and lined with felt so if you put things in there they will not rattle here you have your cup holders and what I like about this not only do you get ambient lighting around the cup holders but they're nice and deep so they don't get in the way of any of the functionality here and this is key as well while other car manufacturers are stuffing more and more functionality through the screen Porche said no climate controls should be easily accessible and look you got these switches which you toggle and while these buttons are touch sensitive the actual panel does move so you know that you're pressing something underneath here is your charging pad for your mobile phone and I'll just turn that off again there like that and look M everything does feel quality let's just check out the glove box a yeah look at that nicely damped yeah and the size that's reasonable and once again it is lined with felt let's just check out the door bins oh yeah there's plenty of room in those I could fit a big bottle no problem at all and while you're down there darling have a look at that bur sound system 21 speakers obviously that's an upgrade you can get a bow sound system as well like a mid tier that comes standard on the turbo and entry level cars have a slightly less Punchy sound system as standard but there we go yeah it is very nice in I like the glass roof obviously that's an optional extra but one of the good features is that it opens a what a beautiful day another thing I like is this look the frameless rear view mirror it's a nice big size and you have a decent size vanity mirror as well so you can get a good look at yourself be very smug about your new Porsche Macan and the fact that it's an EV and you're not like harming the environment well depends who you talk to in it you know where did the batteries come from anyway should we should we move on and I'll talk about that right now here in the back of the new Macan it's definitely more spacious than the previous version which did feel a little bit cramped whereas here look this seat is in my driving position I'm 179 cm tall knee room is good now porch of this thing with the battery packs where they don't actually have cells in this area here so you have these foot garages however the seat does seem quite low so yeah I'd rather be at that position but one of the things yet again that they've done with this car is tried to make the seating a bit lower so so it feels more sporty So it's 15 cm lower to the ground this seat this hit point than in the old Maan now in this car I can't really stretch out under the seat in front can you see that but that's because I've got that seat quite low if I move over here where this seat is raised up somewhat there that is a bit better but you may have just noticed something there as I moved across I dragged my feet across the climate control buttons there is a risk that when you got kids jumping in and out of the car they may end up knocking those bit of a shame because it's quite useful having all this functionality here with dual zone climate available here in the back heated seats yeah it's pretty nice and loads of Technology what's not so good though is this these little sliders there for the air vents feel so cheap shame because the rest of the car does feel quality now if you have young children look you got ice fix anchor points though they seem so anchored on the covers there we go I've got them open look those are easy to access once you're know how to work them and you're not an idiot there you go easy to get to if I fall down this you have your cup holders there they are exposed so if you not got cups in there it's not as comfy as it could be though you do have through loading by pulling that lever there and yes we got some stuff in the boot other things to show you is this one of the benefits of the lower seat Headroom is okay now this has the Panic roof so it's not quite quite as good as in the car without it because youve got the mechanism for the roof I've got that much space above my head just so people over 6 foot should be okay but let's find out for ourselves so Adam how tall are you I'm 6 foot go on sit back it's not great it's it's not great there we go that's proper car consumer journalism right there let's move on to the door bins so they're a reasonable size quality back here feels great look we've got the ambient lighting extending here and you can mix and match different like trims this has got the carbon fiber effect there quite like that now let's just check out the windows do they go all the way down that is pretty rubbish isn't it however this car is fitted with the sunshade which is good if You' got young children look so pull that again oh that's satisfying that sort of thing pleases me so it's pretty decent back here however if you need an electric SUV with more space for similar money you could get a BMW iix and if you want to watch my full in-depth video review of that car just click on the pop out Banner appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen alternatively use your mobile phone to follow that QR code that should be appearing on the screen now the boig capacity of the new Porsche Macan is up to 540 L which is bigger than that on a BMW iix and the new Mercedes eqe SUV and as you can see it's a nice square shape there's not too much of a load lip to list Stu over you have these scuff plates as well so you don't damage your body workor as you're hking things in and out we got some good features as well so netage over here and there's more netage over there as well we've got strap we have tied Downy pointage there's hook it's all well and good now you might be thinking what about storing the Low cover underneath the false floor well on this particular car you can't and I'll show you why in a moment but that would normally mean that the parcel shelf is going to get yeed and today that would mean it's going to end up in the ocean however there is a solution on this particular car because when you're not using this you can not doing a very good job with this but you can come on store it there like that so it's had a stay of execution now I just want to show you this cuz I like this feature to lower the rear seats you just pull the lever and they flop down and you get a nice continuous flat floor there's plenty of space in here as I can illustrate Now by childishly climbing into the boot and you could sleep in here if you needed to however there is a slight issue with turbo and cars that you fit with the more expensive sound systems because you do get a subwofer underneath the false floor and that eats into the luggage capacity reduces it by 60 L and that brings on to five annoying things about the new Porsche Macan safety is Paramount these days yet for some reason the rear passenger side airbags on the new Maan are an option they're not that expensive three £5 but let's say you order this car and you forget to spec that or you think I'm going to spend on that and you end up cheaping out and then so unlucky that you have an accident in your car you got a kid in the back and um yeah the worst happens imagine that you didn't take that option you know how much is your Char's life worth I'm not say it's going to happen and it's extremely unlikely but it's not impossible why not just make the safety kit like that standard come on just add it to the cost of the car for everyone it is in the best interest of everybody concerned Porsche as standard there is no rear window wiper why not I know it's red and water might drain off it but for a while when the window's dirty it's just going to gather there so if You' have been parked it's been raining you're going to have to get out and wipe the window with your hand this black plastic trim scratches really easily and if you've got a right-and drive car like us in the UK and you got a watch and you're operating this you can scratch the Buckle against there and it'll soon look a total mess so you might want to ppf protect that you can get the car with an electrically operated charging flap would you open like that it's kind of nifty isn't it however there is no way to shut it from here you have to either use the key or when you drive off it'll shut it will shut itself after about 2 minutes but let's say you just shown your friend oh look at my clever charging flop which incidentally you have to pay extra for you're going to be left with your flaps open for a while which is a little bit kind of embarrassing isn't it now another thing that could be embarrassing is if you completely deplete the car's battery and the 12vt battery as well you're not going to be able to open that are you without breaking into the car somehow and and then pulling the release lever which is somewhere inside so you could just go you know what I don't want that I'm just going to not pay extra for it and have a normal manually operated charging flat which you can get with this car however I've been told there's a problem in certain countries that when you're charging your car kids are walking along and just snapping off the open flaps finally the towing capacity of the new Macan is 2 tons which is actually 400 kg less than the old internal combustion engine version OD dear however it's not all bad you see you can get this car with an electrically Deployable tow hitch if I press this button here it's going to pop out there we go and then you just lock it into place same thing to put it away you press the button it's going to relax off and you push it up there might get your hands a little bit dirty but no big problem now you can get this car with air suspension and then there's these other buttons in the boots where you can raise and lower the car to make it easier to load or unload actually you can change a ride height in this cup by up to 70 mm from its lowest position to its very highest position for off-roading this LED lighting in the car isn't just for your Ambience it's also a communication light which you can turn off and on it does a welcome animation when you get in the car and this is it there's also a goodbye animation there is your drive mode change which seems similar again then there's the launch control look at this ooh launch control then there's the charging bet it's green yes it's green of course it is and then it will do this when you lock the car when you activate the voice controls it does this kind of thing blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah exit warning so if you get to get out the car but there's someone walking past and then there's the lane change and turn assist does that all very communicative this is one of the very biggest heads up displays available on any car so it's optional on the Maan and it's so big that it's a little bit like watching an 87 in television 10 m down the road from you also it can display actual directions on the road so you got augmented reality satnav and it can show loads of other functions as well such as your driving assist pretty cool isn't it as with many other vehicles you can have handsfree opening of the boot it's handy if you got arms full of shopping and you can shut it as well so it does want you to move away to shut it for safety go on shut I'm safely away but has you got this safety feature anti pinch please it sused it out let's see if I can trick it it works I did H really anyway I want to show you this cuz this is particularly Unique Look you got hands free for the front Boot and there is 85 L of space in there is it big enough for me to to just sit in and enjoy the scenery yes cuz I've got narrow hips you might think it's a little bit dangerous to have a screen for the passenger which they can watch YouTube channels on such as German carw it's not an issue right because when I put this car into drive the driver won't be able to see anything anymore watch I can still see it but the driver can't these is a special filter it's very strange the Maan shares quite a lot of its components with the Audi QC like the battery system the inverter all that kind of stuff however for the rear motor on the Porsche it is behind the back axle rather than in front of it like on the Audi for the Porsche Driving Experience yeah I've got some Germans looking at me like I'm a yeah now one of the benefits along with that kind of classic Porsche feel is this you can get rear axle steering on this car and it can turn the back wheels up to 5° benefit of that is that it reduces the Turning Circle by 1 M over the car without it and compared to the old Maan so it goes down from 12.1 M to 11.1 M with a rear axle steering this is the rear axle motor on the Porsche Macan turbo now this will not be shared with the Audi q6 it's Porsche unique this thing though look at the size of it it puts out up to 640 horsepower which is pretty much the same horsepower that you get from the 3.8 L twin turbo in the current 911 Turbo S this is less than half the size it weighs less than half that engine it's insane that it can deliver that much power that's not all though it's more efficient so 97% of the energy that you put into this will actually go to the wheels whereas with the internal combustion engine only about 30% of the energy that you burn in it will go to the wheels one thing I can't say though is that this is going to sound as good as the engine but that is quite a high price to pay for the noise Porsche has teamed up with ostan boat maker frer to create this it's called the E Phantom uses the batteries the motor from the Maan turbo this thing has 550 horsepower it will do over 50 m hour which is quite a lot on water apparently it's a game Cher in the Boating Leisure industry and it's going to cost you about £700,000 now I wonder if I can get an allocation on this Sebastian here has decided to let me foolishly have a drive of this boat oh it's so responsive W ow but apparently I'm in some safety range mode because if you take it out of range mode it goes a lot quicker but Sebastian doesn't trust me with that so you're going to drive it in mode can okay go on then Sport Plus you want to sit down uh really oh I'm getting excited go on 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car or you can just click on the pop out bner that should be appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen now alternatively just Google help me carwow and we will help you sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price on with the video just starting to drive the Maan and I went to drive through a roped off barrier but thankfully there's a man to help us out and just cleared it's like playing limbo in the car now what I've done is reset the trick computer there so we're going to measure the efficiency of this car we've got a 95 kwh battery pack range on the standard car is up to 380 Mi on the turbo about 360 we're going to work out what the real world range is so I've got the car just running in normal mode we'll see how it does round town so first test let's check out how good the suspension is this turbo is on air as standard so yeah over the speed HPS it's nice and relaxing I might just raise my seat up because I do like an SUV to feel tall it's what expect from an electric car it's very very quiet very very relaxing got good sound insulation so I can't really hear anything on the outside not much suspension noise this surface in the road is pretty bad right now and it's coping with it very well steerings reasonably light but not too light it has that sort of chunky feeling that you get from Porsches you know I can tell this is a Porsche just in the way the steering wheel feels which is what you want if you're paying this kind of money now this is going to be £10,000 more than the equivalent Audi q6 so you want that pory feel don't you one thing that I'm kind of missing is one pedal driving you do have regen effect but it's not that aggressive I'd like it to be more aggressive I think the philosophy from Porsche is that actually always using regen isn't as efficient as coasting because you're recouping energy and putting it back into the battery blah blah blah blah blah there's all those kind of losses going on whereas just keeping on rolling is better but from a control point of view one ped driving is quite useful visibility in this car so these pillars are really chunky and the dash is quite long but I can see the corners of the car fact the design of the Bonnet is a little bit 911 with the way that you have like haunches over the lights the view out the back window not the best cuz it's quite narrow but I've got big door mirrors which are helping me out there's another Maan oh look we don't see many of these in the UK but I've seen a few here in France a citroni right I do want to test out the Turning Circle in this car I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be doing this but oh yeah that is super tight look made it round no problem at all for a reasonable size family SUV pretty blim and easy to drive around town so that's a win in that department we got a bit more speed up now into an 80 km an hour or 50 mph Road it's very quiet in here just a bit of noise from the tires but wow just whack it into sports mode Sport Plus let's see if it's a bit more responsive fly me blim me blim me so Adam I'm just going to jab the throttle a little bit with the car in normal mode so I'm just jabbing the throttle I'm going to do the same with it in Sport Plus you ready me oh my God right let's get back into normal shall we until we get out of the city Porsche warn me about that cuz sometimes electric cars while they absolutely take off that first bit of throttle response can be a little bit like of a delay this is like it's on it straight away finally got out the town and we're on to some twisty Mountain Roads do you know what I'm going to lower my seating position let's go all the way into sports plus right here we go with the suspension in its sportti setting this car stays pretty flat through the BS that's interesting it seems to build speed like an internal combustion engine car rather than being all at the initial press wa who also feels quite tail happy you see the interesting thing is is that this turbo has a total power output of 640 horsepower and as I've already explained you can get that from just the rear motor the front motor can produce 230 horsepower so you might be thinking why not combined do I have over 800 horsepower well the reason you don't is because the battery can only provide enough electricity for 640 horsepower at once but what it can do is make all of that horsepower come from the rear axle if it wants to and that just H makes the car playful now I'm not going to mess around turning off the stability control or anything silly like that cuz I just don't like doing that kind of thing on the road but oh my gosh you really do get a sense that this is sporty rear wheel drive and it has that Porsche element of fun now I get the point of having the seating position lower because when you're driving like this you want to be lower more connected to the car I'm astonished at the brakes actually how natural they feel cuz sometimes electric car brakes don't have the feel in terms of of blending out of the brake as you're going into a corner whereas this works just like a normal friction brake it's very very very good now a lot of people who buy this car probably won't really care about that but for those that do who maybe have a 911 in the garage as well will appreciate that the braking system on this car still has that Porsche vibe to it a Tesla Model wide performance that can give you Thrills in a straight line like this in fact you can see my full in-depth video review of that car by clicking on the pop out banner up there or following the QR code should be appearing on the screen right now but the Tesla can't get close to this thing in terms of fun factor for people that get enjoyment from not only going quick in a straight line but quick and with lots of control through the corners and that's what this car does which is quite surprising when you consider just how heavy it is 2.4 tons for this turbo I mean eventually the weight will get the better of it normal Road speeds it doesn't have an impact this thing can properly handle now be quite interesting to try the normal Maan 4 which has a minia 408 horsepower maximum output I'm sure that still feel pretty quick whether it's just crazy dynamic as this one though probably not now let's check out the performance n 60 of this turbo is supposed to take 3.3 seconds what's the reality launch time wa it's quick 3.2 seconds course wow it's rapid one last thing to do is to check the efficiency join my test drive I've averaged 21.5 5 kwatt hours per 100 km and that converts to about 2.9 m per kwatt hour which when you multiply up by the battery capacity of 95 KW gives a real world range under the driving conditions I've just experienced of about 276 miles so that's about 76% of what the manufacturer claims though to be fair on this car I have been enjoying some spirited driving and of course I launched a car which won't have helped the efficiency and isn't probably how much most people will be driving this car most of the time but it does mean if you want to drive it in a way that you can have some fun you will still get around 270 Mi out of it so then what's my final verdict on the new Porsche McAn should you avoid it consider it short list it or just go right ahead and buy it well I have to say this is the best handling and most desirable electric SUV however because it's only available as an electric car and there's no internal combustion engine version the actual appeal of the Macan probably isn't quite as wide as it used to be and that's why I think you should short list it I hope you'll enjoyed the video if you did give it a like if you want to watch some more videos click on the windows and if you click on the carw logo you're going to get a surprisethis is the new Porsche Macan and it's a little bit like the location I've chosen to film the car you see it's a bit risky looks desirable but there is a chance I could fall in the water and drown likewise with Porsche its customers who love the ma May reject this new one because it's electric only now I'm going to tell you whether this car is any good in this video going to walk you around the exterior here's a baboon's bottom I'm going to show you the cabin this is one of the very biggest I'm going to tell you what's good about this car it work what's not so good about this car how much is your charge of life worth I'm of course going to take it for a drive and I'm going to launch it to see how quick it is from 0 to 60 MPH I'm Mt Watson and you're watching carwow let's start this video by talking about the design of the new Maan so from the rear it's familiar to the previous car but looks quite new because of the new light designs very thin you got F length light bar got the new Porsche 3D logo that's exposed as well some more like streaks and lines down here this being the turbo model it has a more aggressive rear bumper design which protrudes slightly and sort of reminds me of a baboon's bottom anyway this being the turbo as well look you've got these extra vents here over the standard car they're not actually vents they're fake they're just to make it look sporty moving down the side here wheel sizes start at 20 rise to 22 which is what this car has and there's a number of different designs to it as well once again being the turbo you get slightly different Windows around so they're like this kind of sort of like satiny effect whereas you just get matte black on the standard car these panels here you can have either in body color like on this car you can have them in black or you can have them in carbon fiber similar story really with the door mirrors so normally they're split color so body color at the top and then black at the bottom but you can have them full body color carbon fiber or matte black moving down to the front this is the biggest differentiator compared to the old Maan these are actually the daytime running lights and then the actual headlights are down here here a trend that was first started by citen I think on the old Picasso look one of the things I really like about the new Maan is that being electric it doesn't have to have a grill to cool the engine yes there is an air vent down here but this design makes it feel more sporty and more 911 and actually back in the day Porsches never had grills because the engine was always at the back so this is pretty much going back to their Roots now being a turbo this is more aggressive this part here with this front splitter and it does look quite cool doesn't it I like the design of this car this would be the color I would go for or sort of like metallic green there are a load of other different more exciting colors you might say but this is definitely my bag now something else to point out on the turbo is that there's now a new badge bespoke to the turbos look Porsche Crest is in this sort of like monochrome smoked effect sander car is just the normal badge you do have to pay quite a bit extra for the turbo though so the range for the Nan starts at just under £70,000 the turbo though is £95,000 which is pretty expensive here on the inside the Nema car feels very very different and more modern than the previous generation version clearly inspired by the tyan and the new knen so there's these straight lines here lots of screens as you can see so you got a digital driver's display there all digital D slightly curved screen really high definition by pressing a button on the steering wheel I can toggle between the different views and settings for the three dos like that there we go go to the next one as well so plenty of option and functionality with that then there's a main infotainment screen very similar to that in my 11 GT3 RS but it just seems slightly more responsive slightly sharper Graphics being able to control all the different functionality on the car then there's this optional screen it's about £1,000 extra and the passenger can then play with this satav all that kind of thing the entertainment system and watch videos on YouTube look there oh Auto Alex and German car wow don't know where the British carwow one is it's a bit sad isn't it anyhow quality in here yeah feels really nice this car does have the extend leather and it feels premium and look at that this is very Porsche isn't it straight straight stitching no higgledy piggledy action there obviously you can alter all the interior trims lots of choice if you don't like leather you can have artificial leather you can have race Tex which is basically Porsche's version of Alcantara but they don't have to pay Alcantara people for their Alcantara seats we got the turbo badging and the interesting thing on this car is that they've lowered the seat position by almost 3 cm compared to the old Maan justes make me wonder why have a jacked up SUV only to then sit lower suppose it gives you a bit more of a sporty Driving Experience but if you prefer to sit High look there is plenty of adjustment in the seat and you can sit quite High there's also plenty of adjustment in the steering wheel as well so you can move it just as you like plus there's a variety of different steering wheels to choose from on this steering wheel we have the drive mode selector so you can quickly toggle between your four different driving settings though if you want to you can go into the menu here and just alter some of the settings individually as you like let's check out some of the practicality cuz it does matter so underneath here some storage and it's quite deep and lined with felt so if you put things in there they will not rattle here you have your cup holders and what I like about this not only do you get ambient lighting around the cup holders but they're nice and deep so they don't get in the way of any of the functionality here and this is key as well while other car manufacturers are stuffing more and more functionality through the screen Porche said no climate controls should be easily accessible and look you got these switches which you toggle and while these buttons are touch sensitive the actual panel does move so you know that you're pressing something underneath here is your charging pad for your mobile phone and I'll just turn that off again there like that and look M everything does feel quality let's just check out the glove box a yeah look at that nicely damped yeah and the size that's reasonable and once again it is lined with felt let's just check out the door bins oh yeah there's plenty of room in those I could fit a big bottle no problem at all and while you're down there darling have a look at that bur sound system 21 speakers obviously that's an upgrade you can get a bow sound system as well like a mid tier that comes standard on the turbo and entry level cars have a slightly less Punchy sound system as standard but there we go yeah it is very nice in I like the glass roof obviously that's an optional extra but one of the good features is that it opens a what a beautiful day another thing I like is this look the frameless rear view mirror it's a nice big size and you have a decent size vanity mirror as well so you can get a good look at yourself be very smug about your new Porsche Macan and the fact that it's an EV and you're not like harming the environment well depends who you talk to in it you know where did the batteries come from anyway should we should we move on and I'll talk about that right now here in the back of the new Macan it's definitely more spacious than the previous version which did feel a little bit cramped whereas here look this seat is in my driving position I'm 179 cm tall knee room is good now porch of this thing with the battery packs where they don't actually have cells in this area here so you have these foot garages however the seat does seem quite low so yeah I'd rather be at that position but one of the things yet again that they've done with this car is tried to make the seating a bit lower so so it feels more sporty So it's 15 cm lower to the ground this seat this hit point than in the old Maan now in this car I can't really stretch out under the seat in front can you see that but that's because I've got that seat quite low if I move over here where this seat is raised up somewhat there that is a bit better but you may have just noticed something there as I moved across I dragged my feet across the climate control buttons there is a risk that when you got kids jumping in and out of the car they may end up knocking those bit of a shame because it's quite useful having all this functionality here with dual zone climate available here in the back heated seats yeah it's pretty nice and loads of Technology what's not so good though is this these little sliders there for the air vents feel so cheap shame because the rest of the car does feel quality now if you have young children look you got ice fix anchor points though they seem so anchored on the covers there we go I've got them open look those are easy to access once you're know how to work them and you're not an idiot there you go easy to get to if I fall down this you have your cup holders there they are exposed so if you not got cups in there it's not as comfy as it could be though you do have through loading by pulling that lever there and yes we got some stuff in the boot other things to show you is this one of the benefits of the lower seat Headroom is okay now this has the Panic roof so it's not quite quite as good as in the car without it because youve got the mechanism for the roof I've got that much space above my head just so people over 6 foot should be okay but let's find out for ourselves so Adam how tall are you I'm 6 foot go on sit back it's not great it's it's not great there we go that's proper car consumer journalism right there let's move on to the door bins so they're a reasonable size quality back here feels great look we've got the ambient lighting extending here and you can mix and match different like trims this has got the carbon fiber effect there quite like that now let's just check out the windows do they go all the way down that is pretty rubbish isn't it however this car is fitted with the sunshade which is good if You' got young children look so pull that again oh that's satisfying that sort of thing pleases me so it's pretty decent back here however if you need an electric SUV with more space for similar money you could get a BMW iix and if you want to watch my full in-depth video review of that car just click on the pop out Banner appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen alternatively use your mobile phone to follow that QR code that should be appearing on the screen now the boig capacity of the new Porsche Macan is up to 540 L which is bigger than that on a BMW iix and the new Mercedes eqe SUV and as you can see it's a nice square shape there's not too much of a load lip to list Stu over you have these scuff plates as well so you don't damage your body workor as you're hking things in and out we got some good features as well so netage over here and there's more netage over there as well we've got strap we have tied Downy pointage there's hook it's all well and good now you might be thinking what about storing the Low cover underneath the false floor well on this particular car you can't and I'll show you why in a moment but that would normally mean that the parcel shelf is going to get yeed and today that would mean it's going to end up in the ocean however there is a solution on this particular car because when you're not using this you can not doing a very good job with this but you can come on store it there like that so it's had a stay of execution now I just want to show you this cuz I like this feature to lower the rear seats you just pull the lever and they flop down and you get a nice continuous flat floor there's plenty of space in here as I can illustrate Now by childishly climbing into the boot and you could sleep in here if you needed to however there is a slight issue with turbo and cars that you fit with the more expensive sound systems because you do get a subwofer underneath the false floor and that eats into the luggage capacity reduces it by 60 L and that brings on to five annoying things about the new Porsche Macan safety is Paramount these days yet for some reason the rear passenger side airbags on the new Maan are an option they're not that expensive three £5 but let's say you order this car and you forget to spec that or you think I'm going to spend on that and you end up cheaping out and then so unlucky that you have an accident in your car you got a kid in the back and um yeah the worst happens imagine that you didn't take that option you know how much is your Char's life worth I'm not say it's going to happen and it's extremely unlikely but it's not impossible why not just make the safety kit like that standard come on just add it to the cost of the car for everyone it is in the best interest of everybody concerned Porsche as standard there is no rear window wiper why not I know it's red and water might drain off it but for a while when the window's dirty it's just going to gather there so if You' have been parked it's been raining you're going to have to get out and wipe the window with your hand this black plastic trim scratches really easily and if you've got a right-and drive car like us in the UK and you got a watch and you're operating this you can scratch the Buckle against there and it'll soon look a total mess so you might want to ppf protect that you can get the car with an electrically operated charging flap would you open like that it's kind of nifty isn't it however there is no way to shut it from here you have to either use the key or when you drive off it'll shut it will shut itself after about 2 minutes but let's say you just shown your friend oh look at my clever charging flop which incidentally you have to pay extra for you're going to be left with your flaps open for a while which is a little bit kind of embarrassing isn't it now another thing that could be embarrassing is if you completely deplete the car's battery and the 12vt battery as well you're not going to be able to open that are you without breaking into the car somehow and and then pulling the release lever which is somewhere inside so you could just go you know what I don't want that I'm just going to not pay extra for it and have a normal manually operated charging flat which you can get with this car however I've been told there's a problem in certain countries that when you're charging your car kids are walking along and just snapping off the open flaps finally the towing capacity of the new Macan is 2 tons which is actually 400 kg less than the old internal combustion engine version OD dear however it's not all bad you see you can get this car with an electrically Deployable tow hitch if I press this button here it's going to pop out there we go and then you just lock it into place same thing to put it away you press the button it's going to relax off and you push it up there might get your hands a little bit dirty but no big problem now you can get this car with air suspension and then there's these other buttons in the boots where you can raise and lower the car to make it easier to load or unload actually you can change a ride height in this cup by up to 70 mm from its lowest position to its very highest position for off-roading this LED lighting in the car isn't just for your Ambience it's also a communication light which you can turn off and on it does a welcome animation when you get in the car and this is it there's also a goodbye animation there is your drive mode change which seems similar again then there's the launch control look at this ooh launch control then there's the charging bet it's green yes it's green of course it is and then it will do this when you lock the car when you activate the voice controls it does this kind of thing blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah exit warning so if you get to get out the car but there's someone walking past and then there's the lane change and turn assist does that all very communicative this is one of the very biggest heads up displays available on any car so it's optional on the Maan and it's so big that it's a little bit like watching an 87 in television 10 m down the road from you also it can display actual directions on the road so you got augmented reality satnav and it can show loads of other functions as well such as your driving assist pretty cool isn't it as with many other vehicles you can have handsfree opening of the boot it's handy if you got arms full of shopping and you can shut it as well so it does want you to move away to shut it for safety go on shut I'm safely away but has you got this safety feature anti pinch please it sused it out let's see if I can trick it it works I did H really anyway I want to show you this cuz this is particularly Unique Look you got hands free for the front Boot and there is 85 L of space in there is it big enough for me to to just sit in and enjoy the scenery yes cuz I've got narrow hips you might think it's a little bit dangerous to have a screen for the passenger which they can watch YouTube channels on such as German carw it's not an issue right because when I put this car into drive the driver won't be able to see anything anymore watch I can still see it but the driver can't these is a special filter it's very strange the Maan shares quite a lot of its components with the Audi QC like the battery system the inverter all that kind of stuff however for the rear motor on the Porsche it is behind the back axle rather than in front of it like on the Audi for the Porsche Driving Experience yeah I've got some Germans looking at me like I'm a yeah now one of the benefits along with that kind of classic Porsche feel is this you can get rear axle steering on this car and it can turn the back wheels up to 5° benefit of that is that it reduces the Turning Circle by 1 M over the car without it and compared to the old Maan so it goes down from 12.1 M to 11.1 M with a rear axle steering this is the rear axle motor on the Porsche Macan turbo now this will not be shared with the Audi q6 it's Porsche unique this thing though look at the size of it it puts out up to 640 horsepower which is pretty much the same horsepower that you get from the 3.8 L twin turbo in the current 911 Turbo S this is less than half the size it weighs less than half that engine it's insane that it can deliver that much power that's not all though it's more efficient so 97% of the energy that you put into this will actually go to the wheels whereas with the internal combustion engine only about 30% of the energy that you burn in it will go to the wheels one thing I can't say though is that this is going to sound as good as the engine but that is quite a high price to pay for the noise Porsche has teamed up with ostan boat maker frer to create this it's called the E Phantom uses the batteries the motor from the Maan turbo this thing has 550 horsepower it will do over 50 m hour which is quite a lot on water apparently it's a game Cher in the Boating Leisure industry and it's going to cost you about £700,000 now I wonder if I can get an allocation on this Sebastian here has decided to let me foolishly have a drive of this boat oh it's so responsive W ow but apparently I'm in some safety range mode because if you take it out of range mode it goes a lot quicker but Sebastian doesn't trust me with that so you're going to drive it in mode can okay go on then Sport Plus you want to sit down uh really oh I'm getting excited go on then a few moments later fly me wow freck me out you all right yeah it's so cool want to sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price then head to car while to have over 4,000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction first enter your car's 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starting to drive the Maan and I went to drive through a roped off barrier but thankfully there's a man to help us out and just cleared it's like playing limbo in the car now what I've done is reset the trick computer there so we're going to measure the efficiency of this car we've got a 95 kwh battery pack range on the standard car is up to 380 Mi on the turbo about 360 we're going to work out what the real world range is so I've got the car just running in normal mode we'll see how it does round town so first test let's check out how good the suspension is this turbo is on air as standard so yeah over the speed HPS it's nice and relaxing I might just raise my seat up because I do like an SUV to feel tall it's what expect from an electric car it's very very quiet very very relaxing got good sound insulation so I can't really hear anything on the outside not much suspension noise this surface in the road is pretty bad right now and it's coping with it very well steerings reasonably light but not too light it has that sort of chunky feeling that you get from Porsches you know I can tell this is a Porsche just in the way the steering wheel feels which is what you want if you're paying this kind of money now this is going to be £10,000 more than the equivalent Audi q6 so you want that pory feel don't you one thing that I'm kind of missing is one pedal driving you do have regen effect but it's not that aggressive I'd like it to be more aggressive I think the philosophy from Porsche is that actually always using regen isn't as efficient as coasting because you're recouping energy and putting it back into the battery blah blah blah blah blah there's all those kind of losses going on whereas just keeping on rolling is better but from a control point of view one ped driving is quite useful visibility in this car so these pillars are really chunky and the dash is quite long but I can see the corners of the car fact the design of the Bonnet is a little bit 911 with the way that you have like haunches over the lights the view out the back window not the best cuz it's quite narrow but I've got big door mirrors which are helping me out there's another Maan oh look we don't see many of these in the UK but I've seen a few here in France a citroni right I do want to test out the Turning Circle in this car I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be doing this but oh yeah that is super tight look made it round no problem at all for a reasonable size family SUV pretty blim and easy to drive around town so that's a win in that department we got a bit more speed up now into an 80 km an hour or 50 mph Road it's very quiet in here just a bit of noise from the tires but wow just whack it into sports mode Sport Plus let's see if it's a bit more responsive fly me blim me blim me so Adam I'm just going to jab the throttle a little bit with the car in normal mode so I'm just jabbing the throttle I'm going to do the same with it in Sport Plus you ready me oh my God right let's get back into normal shall we until we get out of the city Porsche warn me about that cuz sometimes electric cars while they absolutely take off that first bit of throttle response can be a little bit like of a delay this is like it's on it straight away finally got out the town and we're on to some twisty Mountain Roads do you know what I'm going to lower my seating position let's go all the way into sports plus right here we go with the suspension in its sportti setting this car stays pretty flat through the BS that's interesting it seems to build speed like an internal combustion engine car rather than being all at the initial press wa who also feels quite tail happy you see the interesting thing is is that this turbo has a total power output of 640 horsepower and as I've already explained you can get that from just the rear motor the front motor can produce 230 horsepower so you might be thinking why not combined do I have over 800 horsepower well the reason you don't is because the battery can only provide enough electricity for 640 horsepower at once but what it can do is make all of that horsepower come from the rear axle if it wants to and that just H makes the car playful now I'm not going to mess around turning off the stability control or anything silly like that cuz I just don't like doing that kind of thing on the road but oh my gosh you really do get a sense that this is sporty rear wheel drive and it has that Porsche element of fun now I get the point of having the seating position lower because when you're driving like this you want to be lower more connected to the car I'm astonished at the brakes actually how natural they feel cuz sometimes electric car brakes don't have the feel in terms of of blending out of the brake as you're going into a corner whereas this works just like a normal friction brake it's very very very good now a lot of people who buy this car probably won't really care about that but for those that do who maybe have a 911 in the garage as well will appreciate that the braking system on this car still has that Porsche vibe to it a Tesla Model wide performance that can give you Thrills in a straight line like this in fact you can see my full in-depth video review of that car by clicking on the pop out banner up there or following the QR code should be appearing on the screen right now but the Tesla can't get close to this thing in terms of fun factor for people that get enjoyment from not only going quick in a straight line but quick and with lots of control through the corners and that's what this car does which is quite surprising when you consider just how heavy it is 2.4 tons for this turbo I mean eventually the weight will get the better of it normal Road speeds it doesn't have an impact this thing can properly handle now be quite interesting to try the normal Maan 4 which has a minia 408 horsepower maximum output I'm sure that still feel pretty quick whether it's just crazy dynamic as this one though probably not now let's check out the performance n 60 of this turbo is supposed to take 3.3 seconds what's the reality launch time wa it's quick 3.2 seconds course wow it's rapid one last thing to do is to check the efficiency join my test drive I've averaged 21.5 5 kwatt hours per 100 km and that converts to about 2.9 m per kwatt hour which when you multiply up by the battery capacity of 95 KW gives a real world range under the driving conditions I've just experienced of about 276 miles so that's about 76% of what the manufacturer claims though to be fair on this car I have been enjoying some spirited driving and of course I launched a car which won't have helped the efficiency and isn't probably how much most people will be driving this car most of the time but it does mean if you want to drive it in a way that you can have some fun you will still get around 270 Mi out of it so then what's my final verdict on the new Porsche McAn should you avoid it consider it short list it or just go right ahead and buy it well I have to say this is the best handling and most desirable electric SUV however because it's only available as an electric car and there's no internal combustion engine version the actual appeal of the Macan probably isn't quite as wide as it used to be and that's why I think you should short list it I hope you'll enjoyed the video if you did give it a like if you want to watch some more videos click on the windows and if you click on the carw logo you're going to get a surprise\n"