2020 Porsche Macan Turbo Review // Too Fast, Too Serious

hey Thomas what's going on here I keep finding these turbo stickers around Thomas you you can't just stick the word turbo on everything or Porsche did it first you are an idiot you're watching throttle house I'm Thomas and I'm James and this is the 2020 Porsche Macan turbo makan is an exotic name and with it Porsche have chosen to combine ideas of suppleness power and dynamics it's actually from the indonesian word for tiger but hilariously if you look at the same word and scottish it means sony Lodi or little boy games which we think also works because it suggests a stoutness and a William Wallace level of strength in today's Macan turbo gets some fun changes for 2020 including an upgraded engine that gives us 434 horsepower and 405 pound-feet of torque more Aero and finally the new makan design language that adorns it's less powerful siblings which includes that delightful light bar rear end we're importantly now that we've tested BMW Mercedes Audi and alphas finest in this department we're keen to see how Stuttgart's latest and most competent sports crossover stacks up and if it can truly serve as an example of in a one car solution being able to have your Porsche cake and eat it too you're new to throttle house we do car reviews track test and quite a lot of messages out so subscribe hit the bell [Music] [Music] this is the 20/20 Macan turbo and I didn't know it would launch that aggressively all right Manuel I've heard the launch control is aggressive 5,000 rpm all night why do you do this at a crossover and the reason we have that power is even though Porsha say that there is no substitute there is a substitute for displacement because this now has less displacement this is now a 2.9 liter v6 rather than the outgoing 3.6 liter v6 and yet we have 34 more horsepower now and that's some hot V turbo magic and placement of the engine I've driven this car a lot but that's the first time I've done launch control and I can tell you that what they've done is package the majority of the drama into the hearts control because that's the most electrifying part of this car so far [Music] that v6 up front is objectively awesome it has all of the right torque characteristics and it's attached to a PDK which is the only thing you can get our makan that's a good thing because the ships are stupid they're so fast listen when I click this paddle the gap doesn't exist it simply doesn't is a PDK still blows my mind to this day the Macan turbo is very very good however display those numbers this isn't actually as quick off the line as estelle via Quadrifoglio or a GL c63 s or an x 3m competition we have the question whether you need that because every time we drive one of those we say it doesn't need this speed and this still qualifies for that level of speed when Porsche took what is effectively an Audi and decided to make a little crossover out of it originally and as they updated it what they did was they kind of engineered all of the Audi out of it which means that they not only made it look very different on the outside and James and I'll talk about that in a second but they made it drive very differently as well and they changed kind of the seating position how the car feels I'm driving this in Sport+ at the moment so this has this comes standard with adaptive dampers so in Sport Plus mode it's the most aggressive most aggressive throttle response most aggressive damping basically I put it in sports car mode and it is that this can be had with air suspension which is only about a thousand bucks more fifteen hundred bucks more and sees this is actually configured to a hundred and seventeen thousand dollars I think I'd add that on to as well because in the city this is quite harsh and in ride and the air suspension is supposed to make it a lot more supple a lot more compliant so that for me would be a worthy upgrade therefore have succeeded and they tend to always succeed it's the handling making a car feel smaller fill agile they've even got a smaller steering wheel on this the diameters like it's like a Kamath handling what do we got well for sure did redesigned all of the suspension when they took the Audi parts and they did a good job turns in very well the steering feels fantastic it weights up perfectly and it's just rock planted solid on the crowd from where I'm sitting this is very porsche incredible solidity to everything the way that the car responds to inputs the damping everything the better it is very stout the thing is though is that it has a little turbo badge on it in turbo in Porsche world even if you're talking about the Thai contr boat means ballistically fast bass ripping lis fast and this isn't that if you told me this was the makan s I'd believe you it's not as quick as I thought that it was going to be it's impressive it is measurably impressive but it's not crackling and exciting like the stell vo Quadrifoglio it doesn't have the AMG bellow of the GL c63 s [Applause] Porcia have made this in such a way that you if you wanted to you can trick yourself into thinking you are driving a 911 the steering wheel the dash with the sport chrono again you could trick yourself into thinking it's a 911 if it weren't for the fact but actually for really high up and the seats are high in the position is higher my you know my center of gravity is high and nothing can really change that and I said to Thomas and this is my issue with the crossover stuff is I don't really like tomatoes and as fresh and delicious as this tomato is I'm not a big fan of it to which he said yeah but you like tomato sauce and I said yeah but tomato sauce when you put on a plate has a lower center of gravity all right what do you think I think it drives like a little Cayenne it does yeah exactly doesn't drive like a Cayman or a 911 no it drives like a slightly better Cayenne it's an in-between it's the crossover yeah but it doesn't you know this one's got a turbo bad slapped on it and it doesn't feel that turbo no no yeah we mentioned that it doesn't actually feel ballistically fast like I kind of wanted it should break your neck yeah it also doesn't look much like a turbo there's not much that separates this in styling to the Macan s yeah I the 911 turbo has this big vent here do you it's the turbo I mean this has some fancy options stuff so this is the 21 inch spider wheels yeah it comes standard this year with 20 inches but I don't know maybe the 21 inch sacrifice is too much ride yeah and this isn't a square setup either this is these rear tires are bigger than the ones at the 295 in a 265 I wear so like that's they probably did that to build in some understeer because safety but I wonder if you went to a square setup in this I feel like that would actually prove the handling not that it's bad it's very good I think that would even more turn in but it's very sports call that it's do bigger at the back it is gone for the Mekons sports car yeah and yet it is a very pretty crossover that is what it is well the McCanns always been pretty actually it has when it came in later it did is Porsche hit their stride with crossover styling a generation or two into the Cayenne if you look at the old Cayenne yeah and also didn't even the Panamera the old Panamera pretty well what they did which I thought was cool is that this is on the MLB platform Volkswagen which is the same as the sq5 whatever yeah but what they did was obviously other than the engine the transmission and the suspension tuning that's all Porsche they completely redesigned the outside and this is the best part right here check this out watch this be amazed James I'm ready to be amazed whoo it opened but look what happens when it opens you have a clamshell hood this is a full gap yeah that's a big hole I don't know why this is so fun it's very cool this is the new 2.9 liter v6 which obviously we can't see because there's a plastic engine cover on it but what you can see is where the axle is compared to the engine I thought honestly there'd be more engine behind the front axle than there is it's very out front which is amazing they made it handle as well as they did with actually a fair amount of weight out front should we do the interior absolutely socially distance socially just at least six feet away right one James away as it goes it's the it's the streets were bent I was bullying the street yes cops have been in my neighbor cops room if you haven't seen our Cayenne review that might not make much sense that's because the car drops a beat from a distance let's talk about the interior okay it's Porsche qualities but it's wonderful in here it is it's everything is so tight and nice right yeah but there's so many buttons right yeah well we just did a video on this on how so many fractures are getting rid of buttons and Porsche one the other way really far as possible like I counted and even just the climate control alone has tens of this is the Bose audio system it's great you can upgrade to burn astir and you yes Oh grand I think I would because those ones fine it's just fine it's just my eyes usually have both yes yeah and we have the ten point nine inch screen which is very nice I've enjoyed that a lot and it has apple carplay Wireless apple carplay actually although I feel like you know this is our this is V AG group I wish it had the haptic feed feedback that they already had it's wonderful it's got the carbon fire inserts you can do all the normal poor stuff you can have all of this in red this is the black leather that's an upgrade as well this has got the Sport Chrono Package nice leather okay remember this has $30,000 of options and a lot of them are experienced inside heated leather steering wheel you got the climate controlled seats with the air the vented seats these are heated seats in the back of privacy blinds glass sunroof like it's an occasion here speaking of the seats actually so like we talked about how their bolster when we were driving them up but they're soft they only German seats are quite firm and like these are really cushy I actually like them a lot yeah they're very very nice and these are the 18 way as well so yeah so many buttons on the side to adjust its but it makes more sense when you reach down and do it than it does when I'm looking at it right here yeah this is complicated yeah just looks like a Mario level the back seats by the way speaking of that okay it's a bit cramped I find really yeah like it's my head just about touches to see it does kind of brush it but it feels like there's vertical height because the roof is very horizontal and well the glass roof also helps with that as well it definitely the front is definitely a cockpit feeling it's definitely tighter than like the other competitions that we've driven yeah it is a smaller interior overall but I think that may have been a bit intentional to give you that kind of came in low down slung feeling even though they don't feel that you don't the driving distance to it doesn't go that lone you feel high off the road which I guess you want with the crossover I guess that is that a goal we don't know we don't know we can't make sentiment stand in terms of what we said at the beginning just this allows you to have your cake and eat it is it a sports car that happens to be more practical yes and no because of crossover unfortunately is exactly that it's a hybrid car knowing the traditional sense it's like a hybrid meal it's like brunch you get to eat at 11:30 it's delicious but by that point you're starving you've already had an uncomfortable morning you've already sacrificed having your granola with strawberries which is delicious I don't understand why I can't have that every day you've got a line up outside the hipster restaurant it's expensive and you're already hungry by three o'clock again for me the conclusion of this is I think that I would know by the turbo trim if I was buying makan I would buy the S trim saved the money maybe even the new four-cylinder I'm not saying that the Macan doesn't hit the mark I just don't think the Macan turbo is where this car shines and it finds itself more at home in the Macan s territory and yes I know the naughts of 100 kilometer our time becomes 5.3 seconds or whatever it is that you don't need it save the money keep all the wonderful porsche build quality and handling and air suspension and you have a win or get a Cayenne get a bit more space and buy a used Cayman then you get the best of both worlds you get a dynamically excellent crossover SUV whatever that can handle back roads sharp maneuvers has just enough punch to get you into that gap and then when you really want to experience Porsche and what it means you bring out the Cayman you take you to the track and you realize how amazing this brand can be you

Channel: Throttle House

Views: 334,558

Rating: 4.9349594 out of 5

Keywords: Porsche, Porsche Macan, 2020 Porsche Macan, 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo, 2020 Porsche Macan GTS, Macan Turbo, 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo Sound, 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo Top Speed, 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo 0-60, 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo Exhaust, 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo Interior, 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo Fuel Economy, Porsche crossover, porsche SUV

Id: AEpPAYpqhh4

Length: 14min 27sec (867 seconds)

Published: Sun May 31 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Uptons_BJs]

I have a belief that the right amount of buttons should be that all the basic features that are critical for use during driving should be a button, the optional things you set and forget should be on screen.

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There is almost nothing that makes your car look cheap than a blank button, and look at how many blank buttons there are on this damned car! It is solidly over $100k and half the buttons in the middle are blank. Move the functions that you don't commonly use into the infotainment. it declutters the interior and makes the car look better.

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I mean, think about it, this is a $116k car, and half the buttons are blank. To fill those up you need like a $200k Macan. Some of the options are super obscure and rare, stuff like the air ionizer. There is no need to give those options a button.

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For the 0.5% of people who decided to spec the ionizer, they can activate it in the infotainment. Why leave a blank button to make your car look cheap for the 99.5% of people who didn't?

[u/ab84fan]

I have the Macan S in Miami blue.

Pros: beautiful car, head turning color, solid build quality and attention to detail. The engineering is impressive. It’s quite fun to drive especially for a CUV. I enjoy it more than any of these modern “sport” sedans I’ve driven, which tend to be numb/disengaged and more concerned with marketing themselves as “sporty” than anything.

Cons: dated feeling interior design, sometimes frustrating infotainment. Steering is good for EPS but is still a tad light. You generally have to be going above the speed limit to feed like very engaged in the driving experience.

Overall very happy with the car. Complaining about the buttons and infotainment is warranted BUT that’s not what this car is about. If that stuff matters a lot to you then save your money and get an X3 or Q5.

[u/Adaris187]

The Macan is, dimensionally, just a lifted, somewhat-Golf-sized hatchback. I'd *love* to see one of these things lowered (not slammed), to turn it into, essentially, a Porsche hot hatch.

[u/BurgerBurnerCooker]

So money in your pocket, this or X3M?

[u/nerdpox]

TOO FAST? Nonsense...

[u/lijohn]

But a Macan just a Q5 with a Porsche badge!

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[u/UnlimitedBoxSpace]

Ah yes, the superior Commonwealth car reviewers.

[u/IdeaPump]

I feel like if Ford made an RS trim of the 2020 Escape it might look like the Macan. Kia Niro too. All crossovers are approaching the design singularity where everything looks the same. The crossover market is going to be like NASCAR in a few year. Regulated shapes with only badges and decals to tell them apart.

[u/Eyoel_Cybernetics]

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