Cool YouTube Porsche Promotion Video

[Sar]

The title humorously caught my interest, so I watched it. Pretty cool video! They only name-dropped a single car from their lineup - the Taycan! The way their message proudly stands behind the electrified Taycan fills me with the tiniest amount of additional hopium that Porsche is going to keep focusing on advancing their electrified fleet.

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[whitex]

Having owned the Taycan, I think they missed a few recent things in the ad that they did wrong, such as HV heater, OBC (and then forcing people to accept half performance part as a valid replacement), phone app software architecture (which placates customers by lying to them), and generally the software user experience design (or lack thereof). Other that that, good promo - resonates with my experience of custom ordering a 911C4 in 2001, the best car I owned and drove around up to that point. Funny, I had to wait for an allocation back then, but not as long as I had to wait for the Taycan allocation. Yet, the 911 was so much more solid than the Taycan.

 

[tigerbalm]

Yet, the 911 was so much more solid than the Taycan.

Like many here, having owned both – I think that is still true. However, Porsche is moving in the right direction with the J1.2 Taycan. The improvements have been real.

In every Porsche dealership in the world, there is some variant of this sign:

I think the real question ahead is will Porsche maintain this obligation to their heritage? The lack of software updates to older Taycan's does make me worry. And today's latest model is tomorrow's classic car. Just because there is more electronics in them, doesn't make they cannot be supported. The PCM should be designed to be upgradable.

They've done it previously, so I'm very hopeful they will continue.

https://www.porsche.com/international/accessoriesandservice/classic/producthighlights/pccm/

 

[whitex]

Like many here, having owned both – I think that is still true. However, Porsche is moving in the right direction with the J1.2 Taycan. The improvements have been real.

In every Porsche dealership in the world, there is some variant of this sign:

I think the real question ahead is will Porsche maintain this obligation to their heritage? The lack of software updates to older Taycan's does make me worry. And today's latest model is tomorrow's classic car. Just because there is more electronics in them, doesn't make they cannot be supported. The PCM should be designed to be upgradable.

They've done it previously, so I'm very hopeful they will continue.

https://www.porsche.com/international/accessoriesandservice/classic/producthighlights/pccm/

Over 70% of old cars, but will it be true to contemporary cars? Will those cars still be capable of what they were before, or will they just be decorations on wheels? Does a Taycan with its peak performance parameters cut to 50% count as "still on the road"? Only time will tell.

 

[chun]

I hope just the right thing to do is to fix my maps sooner than 12 months, we're at like 9 now.

 

[crizza]

Gen 1 Taycan buyers were some of the most die-hard Porsche fans, some traded-in their other P-cars, became early tech adopters and were totally burned. Just devastating. No wonder so many enthusiasts hate the Taycan. I would, too.

Luckily I couldn't afford a Gen 1 in 2020... but I did recently buy a new Gen 2 with Active Ride, tuned with MapEV, and I feel like I'm driving the car that all Gen 1 owners expected and deserved.

Shame on Porsche for Gen 1
Long live Gen 2

 

[MoniqueDenver]

A clip from "Drive 2 Extremes" showed up in this video. When I first bought my Taycan 4CT, I was shocked at how many people told me that I had to 'be careful' when driving in snow, ice or rain or soft roading. They were legitimately concerned that the car was going to perform badly. I then sent them the Drive 2 Extremes video to shut them up.

I have J1.1 and I absolutely love it. Any issues I have had were fixed in 0.5-3 days and the dealership washed my car to boot.

 

[whitex]

I think the key to your statement above may be "a first-of-its-kind platform/model from a legacy auto manufacturer". You'd think that manufacturers who have decades and decades of experience would do this better than brand new upstarts with no automotive manufacturing experience, but that does not seem to be the case. I participated in the Tesla early adopter experience. Sure, there were glitches, issues, but I gotta say the biggest difference was the quick turnaround (compared to Porsche) addressing those issues, sending engineers to the service departments, working with customers closely. Legacy manufacturers are very good at producing old designs, with small, incremental changes every few years. Sadly, this is true of most large legacy players in all industries, and this has in the past resulted in a demise of large companies. There is a good book describing this phenomenon - "The Innovator's Dilemma" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma]

Porsche probably should have spun off the EV division, as a wholly owned, but independently operated entity, even if that separation were hidden from marketing/customers. The above book shows historical examples of how such approach has in the past led to successes innovating by legacy players in different industries.

 

[KLHubb]

I bought a J1.1 Taycan 4S as soon as they were available in 2020.
It arrived in September 2020 and I have driven if trouble-free ever since.
It's a fantastic vehicle.

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