[Closed] Porsche Macan

Isn't the cayman the sensible/informed choice of the whole range?

It looks great IMO and enjoyed the ride in Jambas one a couple of year's back.

Not sure it passed the golf club test - forget a 29er!

I watched it. It shows that you can buy a much better looking car that's faster than a Macan Turbo for £18k less. I'm not sure you've made your point well 😆

 

RichPenny

I watched it. It shows that you can buy a much better looking car that's faster than a Macan Turbo for £18k less. I'm not sure you've made your point well

So lap times and appearances are the main factors when buying a car?

They kind of lost interest with the rear end though...

Well I was loaned the Macan for a day on Saturday and all I can say is wow. Drives like a sports car and the power is impressive. Refinement is also there, so foolish of me not to order one. Roll on May 2017 !!

^^ just a couple of months after Brexit starts..

You sure?

So lap times and appearances are the main factors when buying a car?

Those were basically the two points from the post that the video was attempting to counter, yes. (well it was inefficiencies and appearance)

Well I was loaned the Macan for a day on Saturday and all I can say is wow. Drives like a sports car and the power is impressive. Refinement is also there, so foolish of me not to order one. Roll on May 2017 !!

What other cars have you tried of a similar design?

Well I was loaned the Macan for a day on Saturday and all I can say is wow. Drives like a sports car and the power is impressive. Refinement is also there, so foolish of me not to order one. Roll on May 2017 !!

Yes indeed. I am cynical with sales people and when they told me the Macan drive was modelled on my Cayman I thought - yeah right. Salesman was right and I was wrong

Make sure if possible you can get a price guaranty as it seems likely prices will rise 10%

Bikebouy I am expecting new and used car prices to rise post A50 and thats without tariffs. If we have those they will both (new and used) rise further. Relative economic risk post A50 is all on Europe, I expect plenty of pressure from German (and French) car unions to put plenty of pressure on their Governments

What other cars have you tried of a similar design?

IMO there are none comparable, not even close. An Evoc ????

they told me the Macan drive was modelled on my Cayman

4wd, front engined hatchback on stilts = Rwd, mid-engined low coupe that's 500kg lighter? 😕

Or would I be right to assume that this 'modelling' is the steering/suspension/pedal feel when bimbling around?

I have driven many cars in this category and owned high performance two seater sports cars and in my opinion the Macan doesn't feel like a 4x4, it's a sports car on steroids. I had read the reviews and didn't think it would live up to the hype, I was proven wrong when I tested it on country roads/urban/motorway routes only to find it is everything they say it is.

I thought this would be about an exciting new sports car, from a legendary marque. 😳

No, it's about a vulgar ego-chariot marketed at insecure people who need to feel somehow elevated from the common herd, yet can't afford the 'real deal'. It's a glorified Audi ffs. 😆

The Chelsea Tractor is the evolution of the fact that some overprivileged matriarch, unable to ride horses any longer, yet still wanting to follow the local hunt etc, didn't want to travel in a dirty old Land Rover, and insisted on something more in keeping with their overinflated sense of their own importance. Hence the development of the first Range Rovers (the more traditional shooting brakes were shit at getting around muddy fields). It gives the owner the illusion of status, without them actually needing any. They appeal to the insecure, because of the way they can substitute for inadequacies of character.

How interesting that such a pointless bauble is owned by a certain poster on this forum. 😆

A neighbour of ours, who is currently doing up an old LWB Landy with a view to offroading it round Iceland, sees Chelsea Tractors as 'dick enlargements' for the not so well endowed. A perfect summary, imo.

You want to put all your money in an uncertain and unproven Brexit, go ahead.

Car prices will slump as no one buys them for fear of expected massive job losses.

Wait for 12 moths then go in and expect 40% discount because they can't shift em'.

A neighbour of ours, who is currently doing up an old LWB Landy with a view to offroading it round Iceland, sees Chelsea Tractors as 'dick enlargements' for the not so well endowed. A perfect summary, imo.

I see lots of females driving them 😯

I hope he has some 'One life - live it' stickers for the crowning glory of the restoration. 😆

I quite fancy getting some 'on a driveway, covered in stinking transmission oil' stickers made up to stick next to the one life ones..

[quote=clodhopper ]marketed at insecure people who need to feel somehow elevated from the common herd, yet can't afford the 'real deal'. It's a glorified Audi ffs.

The real deal being ... ?

I hate the things in general, but by all accounts these are really rather good.

I honesty hope you enjoy it.
🙂

Not the brown, surely?

clodhopper - Member

A neighbour of ours, who is currently doing up an old LWB Landy with a view to offroading it round Iceland, sees Chelsea Tractors as 'dick enlargements' for the not so well endowed. A perfect summary, imo.

As someone that doesn't currently drive, can you imagine how large my penis must be?
I could probably beat you to death with it! 😯

I take it you're somewhere in between with a more average car type and penis size?
Let me guess, are the limits of acceptably ostentatious car ownership defined by what you've decided to drive? 💡

[quote=clodhopper]
A neighbour of ours, who is currently doing up an old LWB Landy with a view to offroading it round Iceland, sees Chelsea Tractors as 'dick enlargements' for the not so well endowed. A perfect summary, imo.

not sure what he'll make of the super-jeeps out there. they make chelsea tractors look modest

sbob

As someone that doesn't currently drive, can you imagine how large my penis must be?
I could probably beat you to death with it!

Don't be silly. The landrover penis expert will simply use some other metric to deride your genitals (whilst subtlety aggrandizing his own) such as your dog, your house, phone, power tools etc.

In comparison with a man who fixes landrovers with HIS OWN hands pretty much all penises are tiny. He can weld and drive at the same time after all.

Hope this helps.

Aren't Aston Martin going down this route too now?

(edit) and Bentley?

Before Steve here bought this Mercedes-AMG G 63 6x6 he was a hugely endowed manly man. But just look at him now.

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"The real deal being ... ?"

This:

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This:

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And this:

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IE, not some glorified shopping trolley...

Do they increase penis size?

Owning one of those rebadged Audis is a bit like owning one of these:

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😆

I often nip to Booths in a LeMans car to pick up some spuds

ps: I don't shop at Booths by the way, just thought I would prod the fire

"Do they increase penis size?"

Dunno. Can you afford one?

Not this month. But for the sake of the others on the forum who may well be able to afford them it might be relevant information. Avoid the tiny penis stigma of a Porsche Macan, buy a classic Porsce Le Man car and bask in the shadow of your giant penis.

"Not this month."

Never mind eh. But maybe you can afford a t-shirt?

clodhopper

Never mind eh. But maybe you can afford a t-shirt?

You got a million pound Porsche clodhopper? Tell us about your penis size.

"You got a million pound Porsche clodhopper?"

Dunno; haven't counted this month.

Why are you so interested in my penis size? I'm not...

Clodhopper.

There's something about the way the name sounds that seems oddly appropriate for the blundering arguments.

😆

clodhopper

Dunno; haven't counted this month.

Haven't counted what? Your cars? you might just have a 962 lying about that you'd forgotten about?

clodhopper
Why are you so interested in my penis size? I'm not...

I thought you and your neighbour have categorically proven the correlation between the vehicle you drive and your penis size. Or did I miss something?

clodhopper

A neighbour of ours, who is currently doing up an old LWB Landy w sees Chelsea Tractors as 'dick enlargements' for the not so well endowed. A perfect summary, imo.

jimjam - Member
Five pages.

Nearly!

So I take it nobody has any info on specs etc 🙂

No big deal, ordered 21" wheels to match my penis size ha ha

No big deal, ordered 21" wheels to match my penis size ha ha

Diameter? 😯

So I take it nobody has any info on specs etc

Defo get the panoramic roof and phone kit.

Pan roof not worth the money, on any car.

And shirley a phone kit is standard?

Shifter, how do you know?

Legend, amazingly it's not!

I have driven many cars in this category and owned high performance two seater sports cars and in my opinion the Macan doesn't feel like a 4x4, it's a sports car on steroids. I had read the reviews and didn't think it would live up to the hype, I was proven wrong when I tested it on country roads/urban/motorway routes only to find it is everything they say it is.

OP agreed entirely (@legend take note). Enjoy it it's going to be fabulous 🙂 Haters here have to hate

I have owned two Shoguns inc a 3.5 24v V6 and a Rav4 (allegedly "sporty" 😐 ). The Macan is a real Porsche and as beautiful as the old air-cooled 911 is a Macan would beat one round a track no problem IMO, technology has moved on massively. I have little doubt on a track they'd be very little between the Macan S and my Cayman S. On the road zero difference except the Macan being more comfortable.

Phone kit ? I never answer my phone in the car so not needed for me. Tech to play my music through stereo would be more useful. Also never felt the need for a mechanical oil dipstick in 9 years of ownership.

Phone kit ? I never answer my phone in the car so not needed for me.

Because you can't.

Tech to play my music through stereo would be more useful.

They don't even have that? 😆

I win I win I win - I had a rusty defender and a real deal 911. And a mahoosive knob as well. I win. Yesssssss

This thread is hilarious! How can people get so worked up about cars? They're just [i]things[/i] after all. Honestly. I'm not massively keen on the big lumpy expensive Porsche thing personally, but everyone with too much disposable income (and I'm including myself TBH) chooses how to spunk it in their own, mostly obscene to varying degrees, way. It's a really weird argument. Showing off is really important to some people. Let them crack on