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It works perfectly for me... as long as I touch the door with the hand opposite the pocket my key is in. The problem is almost certainly that the car can't reliably tell if the key is inside or outside the car. If the car thinks the key is inside, you can't lock or unlock the doors with comfort...

There is absolutely no excuse -- none whatsoever -- for not outfitting the Taycan with sufficient processing power to accept full-feature upgrades for at least five years. The first-gen iPhone SE, release date March 2016 (almost 6 years ago), can run the latest iOS. And that's a phone! Not only...

I think you're right. Many modern cars put the side marker light on the mirrors, and the light is often designed so that it's partially visible to the occupants of the vehicle as well. Here in the States, the "traditional" side marker lights were only reliably present on low-volume European...

This is a really complicated topic and I'm not sure I can do it justice here. But basically, OTA updates are a way of reducing the overhead associated with deploying software changes to cars after they've been sold. Think about it like this. If it takes 6 hours of tech time to deploy an update...

Normally I would agree with you, but in this case, the PCM literally already does every single thing they are adding/changing. It already displays color, it already has a streaming music service, it already has a voice assistant, it already has a route planner, it already has a map that supports...

Ignore the range estimate; it's been polluted by nearly 1300 miles of other people driving a car they don't own. Instead, calculate your range by driving a known distance, and then dividing that distance by the points lost from your battery charge. For example, if you drive exactly 50 miles...

Looks like it might be in the cleaning position. Maybe they lifted it up to give the car a spit-shine prior to all those close up glamour shots, and forgot (or couldn't figure out how) to retract it?

Which is not to say the complaints aren't genuine, just that not all problems are created equal. I will say that I sometimes get ticked off that Porsche gets the most challenging stuff so right, and the easy stuff so very, very wrong.

We didn't. We tried to, at first, but the night before our departure, an ice storm blew through and we elected to stick to more-major roads. That screwed up our entire plan of charging stops. Playing it by ear worked so well on the way down that we didn't even try to plan our return trip. Along...

Wife just got a '22 Audi e-tron Premium Plus. She's in love with it. It's got worst-in-class range, yes, but in my opinion and for my use case, the flat charging curve more than makes up for it. We drove it from NH to FL three days after taking delivery, and then back a week or so later, and it...

I believe this is configurable via the PCM, because my car does not behave this way.

It's definitely bad for the windows, but on the other hand, frameless windows have been around in cars for a decade or longer. I've got to believe it's a solved problem by now, at least for the traditional manufacturers like Porsche.

Yeah, when the lines are consistently visible or invisible, ALK does a good job of centering. When lines are intermittently visible, it will pogo.

The optioned version is both ALK and InnoDrive. But with FoD you can get them independently. If there is another difference, I would like to know what it is. Contrary to what an earlier poster said, unless Porsche has changed their pricing, it is cheaper to get the ALK+PID option than it is to...

There is some value when it comes to low-speed maneuvering in tight quarters, such as in parking garages or alleyways, but broadly I agree with you. It's certainly not a must-have feature. I did not at all mean to imply otherwise, although I see how my post might have come across that way. All I...

Nothing opens or closes automatically. What happens is that when you approach the location you've associated with that profile (i.e. your house), a little popup appears on the PCM screen. You then push the button on that PCM popup and it will open/close your garage door. It's an imperfect...

I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree. If you have one Taycan that definitely doesn't have RAS, and one that does, you can pretty easily tell the difference. Subjectively by the way the car turns at low speeds, and objectively by how narrow a space you can get into on a single...

PZero Winters sing at 65mph (but not at 64 or 66). Slightly annoying, but other than that, they may actually be quieter than the Cinturato A/S tires that came with the car. I just washed the car yesterday so I think I will not be testing their performance in the snow today.

Yeah, not only did I get that same answer when I was asking about 275s, the shops around here really didn't want to touch the car at all. They were terrified of scratching the wheels. I gave up and had PZero Winters shipped from TireRack to the dealer to install. For whatever it's worth, so far...

They intended to make the capital gains tax increase retroactive to the moment the plan was first publicized, specifically to prevent people from realizing gains prior to the passage of the increase. EV tax credits and capital gains taxes are very different in a lot of ways, so making the...