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The 19s should be more comfortable because they're better able to absorb bumps in the road. You will get better range with them too. I think it's very doubtful that you will have any worse a driving experience on the roads, even with spirited driving. It's not like you're going from 40-profile...

Probably because 1g of acceleration is a lot safer below 60mph than above it. I have literally cleared my sinuses going around turns in this car, which is probably the most ridiculous metric for handling I've ever heard.

Years ago, I walked out of Hennessy Porsche because the salesman was a disgusting pig. I was there with my wife, and the salesman kept staring at her chest. It eventually prompted her to say something, and he apologized. To defuse the tension, she made some flippant comment like, "These get me a...

The best thing is to pre-condition the car while it's still plugged in. That lets it get up to temperature without using any juice. That initial warmup is the single biggest cause of reduced cold-weather range, so removing it as a factor is a big deal. If you can't do that, the second-best...

That wouldn't work with their allocations model. If you could just call and be told who had allocations, it would route business toward those dealerships specifically. The increase in sales would mean they get more allocations while other dealerships get fewer, increasing the likelihood that...

Yeah, with the way the market is right now, I doubt there are many dealers who are willing to trade an allocation to another dealership. You can ask, just don't hold your breath. That leaves individually contacting them. When you're calling around, make sure to ask not just if they have an...

The wheel and seats both heat up quickly compared to other vehicles I've driven, but they never get as hot, particularly the wheel. For my personal comfort level, they are close to perfect. I feel that most heated steering wheels get uncomfortably hot, almost burning, after a few minutes and I...

It sounds like this is the part of the pedal where you'd normally get entirely regen, but you're instead getting nothing at all.

I don't think so. When the car detects your presence it will start "booting up" so it's ready to go by the time you are in the driver's seat. Fans will turn on, pumps will activate, solenoids will open valves, etc. To test my theory, you can try setting a departure time, or pre-conditioning the...

I can believe that. I tried the power meter on the HUD once and found it incredibly distracting. It's easier for me to tune out the numbers than the speedometer-like graphic. How many of us HUD fans play first-person shooters, I wonder?

Love the HUD on my car. It's just fantastic and I can't see myself ever again owning a car without that feature. If you go straight from a normal car into a HUD-equipped Taycan, you won't notice a difference in the dash because there's no difference to notice. As the meme goes, "They're the...

It's funny that I see this thread. My wife found this article over the weekend and she was so mad she specifically asked me to post on here in case the article's author was on these forums. I think the appropriate message is that if you can't charge your EV at home or at work, you might not...

I disagree. I don't like bitching in real life, and I don't like it on forums, either. I always figured it was a cultural trait I inherited from my immigrant mother, but she's Danish, soo... As regards prospective buyers, information about flaws is indeed valuable, but there isn't any of that...

Instead of facing forward when getting in and out of the car, face away from the car. This way you are basically sitting straight down or standing straight up. You only have to bend at your hips, so especially if you have a bad back, this is the best way to get in and out of a car -- any car...

My wife had the same comment about the (non-S) e-tron being slow when she test drove it. On paper, it's a 5.7-second 0-60 time, which is plenty quick for a big SUV. From what I've read, it's a tuning issue; the e-tron basically runs in range mode by default, so power delivery is very lackluster...

Pretty sure it's only disabled in software. There's a thread on it over on RL and people have done it. It requires PIWIS and a calibration tool. I don't think anyone has done it on the Taycan specifically, but it's been done on other Porsches as well as Audis and BMWs. Now, whether Porsche will...

Holy macaroni, a consumer protection that we have in the US and you don't have in Europe?!

In the US we call them "stealerships" because they are known to engage in ridiculous price gouging for service. I haven't seen anything mentioned in this thread that couldn't be handled by a reputable independent shop that specializes in Porsches, likely at a third the cost, in half the time...

Yikes, how about a trigger warning before you post pics like that...

Not buzzwords. Excluding Tesla and EVs that aren't widely available yet, show me an EV that's as good as the Taycan in all four of the areas I mentioned (power output, charge rate, battery thermals, and efficiency). If you don't like battery thermals, throw it out and just look at the other...