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Lol. Would you feel better if you knew that everyone pays 10% less a week after you paid full price? Because that’s exactly the Tesla strategy. If someone manages to get a better deal, kudos to them. With cars, that’s easy to accept - it was your decision (to buy or not, what to pay etc.); not...

I literally said "I can understand that not everyone would willingly accept that brakes may have 'quirks' ". You also seem to agree that the car will stop, and it is the brake pedal feeling that is disconcerting. This being a 'new owner' thread, my intention was to add some color to your earlier...

I mostly agree (4 9s) with the points you raised, but felt compelled to respond on the brakes. I find this to be primarily a subjective issue - just not based on my own experience (22k miles), but also from having read a dozen threads on this topic here. The blending is objectively discontinuous...

There absolutely is a premium on wagons, there were way fewer of them brought over here. The ratio is at best 1:4, and more likely 1:10. I don’t have real data, just based on the then-current allocation sheet my local dealer showed me. On the street, it seems even rarer.

The US dealer model is very different from UK/Europe's. (Porsche have tried once to change it, and it cost the then-CEO his job - though not immediately. Too bad, he was actually quite a good fellow - he saved the 911 from being axed.)

There are a couple of different problems here: - preventing part theft - detecting loss of integrity of a vehicle's componentry - preventing illicit part trade As you may expect, they are not to be solved by the same entity - and quite possibly there may not even be widespread agreement that...

It’s obviously extremely suspicious that the same modules (index-/placement-wise) are having issues. Hopefully they’ll take this opportunity to do a deep dive into the failure mode, and replace your battery. Let us know if you end up getting a gen 2 (battery). ??

That’s a good point, probably a bit too early to tell, though. It will be tough to match like for like, as the base EV is priced near GTS/turbo ICE, which sell in lower numbers and thus have possibly higher residuals. I’m thinking/planning/hoping I can pick up a gently used Macan EV in 3 years...

Do you mean like this? PCCM for Classic ? But i do agree, i don’t see them offering retrofits for the new features. You’ll notice their Classic support (including retrofits) is almost exclusively for 911 models. You can find parts for the 356, and the odd 944. It will be very interesting to see...

Probably a good thing. I wouldn’t want my 20 year old 911 run the UI and features of the new model; it’d look horrible on a tiny LCD display. ?

What @Jenner said; Porsche has not been in need of saving since the mid-00s. The last time that happened it was the Cayenne. 10 years earlier (~’93) it was the Boxster. The Macan is a corporate badge-engineered money maker.

Some say it’s not even a Porsche.. ? The Taycan ain’t going anywhere. Porsche have stated multiple times their goal is to sell 80% electric vehicles by 2030. Maybe their stance has somewhat softened recently, but one does not make a decade-long strategic plan every other year. 911 sales are...

It was, at times: - the 911 - the 924 (then the 944) - the 986/996 pair - credit goes to the Boxster for pulling in the audience, but it was the 911 that brought the profits - the Cayenne The theme is: however great the 911 may have been throughout its life, the company always needed a support...

Was looking for an old poll by F1eng, which asked for opinions on an EV that simulates an ICE experience. (Search suck here, so my apologies to those I rebuke for not searching.) Well, that EV is here. He says the “gearbox might be controversial“; do you mean, like, “turbo EV” controversial, or...

Did your car see you? Like, more than $20? Eww. Eww x 2. I guess one can drill through, and pretend they're functional? Justryna help.

Since you mentioned the cost of rebuilding an engine twice now, I feel compelled to respond. I've had to rebuild the engine of my 996; I didn't go nuts with upgrades or mods (bored to 3.8l & resleeved by LN Engineering, Pauter rods, Woessner pistons, all other parts genuine Porsche, no head...

You proved yourself wrong..?

If your kids are teen-aged, they probably meant it more like rad-ish. Beautiful car. (I may be slightly biased.)

No direct experience with Design 911, but it's pretty well-regarded in the press/media channels focused on Porsche that I follow. I don't recall exactly the details of the mounting claw of the Porsche towers (installed mine and never took them off); out of an abundance of caution, I wrapped...

Can you post your exact settings (screenshot from the app)? Direct charging is exactly that - it'll stop at 100%; the fact that it only happens "sometimes" (from midnight) means the charging speed is very low, or your EVSE is not providing current (<- hint to check your EVSE's settings). Try...