Tesla Performance S owner comes back!

[Crassus]

I was one of the Tesla earlier adopters. Still own my 2014 P85D. Before that though, I owned both a 996 GT2 and a 997 Turbo S. When the opportunity to buy a Taycan arose, I took it. Bought this beauty for my wife. All I can say is, what a difference from the Model S!

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[Hirschaj]

All I can say is, what a difference from the Model S!

Do you mind sharing more thoughts? I’ve never driven a Model S so I have no idea what you mean. I’d love to learn more from someone who has experienced both vehicles.

 

[Bryan]

It's an unfair comparison. The Model S is a car developed by a new company and 7 years before the Taycan. The Taycan has an obligation to be better in everything.

I own two Model 3 and they are the best cars you can buy for the price.

 

[Redhot2474]

It's an unfair comparison. The Model S is a car developed by a new company and 7 years before the Taycan. The Taycan has an obligation to be better in everything.

I own two Model 3 and they are the best cars you can buy for the price.

Agreed

 

[mystermykee]

It's an unfair comparison. The Model S is a car developed by a new company and 7 years before the Taycan. The Taycan has an obligation to be better in everything.

I own two Model 3 and they are the best cars you can buy for the price.

Oh pft, sure you can compare! Tesla thinks the world of their cars, so much so they'd want people to believe they could win a drag race against a car while towing that exact same car.

 

[stirthepot]

Do you mind sharing more thoughts? I’ve never driven a Model S so I have no idea what you mean. I’d love to learn more from someone who has experienced both vehicles.

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...one-tempted-by-model-s-plaid.5423/post-116714

my thoughts. i have now owned the Taycan and the Plaid for nearly three years. Still love them both.

 

[Rusty Griswald]

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...one-tempted-by-model-s-plaid.5423/post-116714

my thoughts. i have now owned the Taycan and the Plaid for nearly three years. Still love them both.

Plaid is a beast…… and such a performance/ tech bargain especially on the used market 60K ?

 

[Crassus]

Do you mind sharing more thoughts? I’ve never driven a Model S so I have no idea what you mean. I’d love to learn more from someone who has experienced both vehicles.

(My model is is a 2014 so it was built when Tesla was still basically building cars with much less automation and efficiency. I know that in the newer S models Tesla has upgraded quality to some extent. But in the 10 years I’ve owned my S it’s been a reliable and relatively trouble free car. Original real world 100% to 0% range was 225. After 10 years of supercharging the battery maxes out at about 180)

As I say in my original post I have a long history with Porsche. I’ve been to the top of the Porsche mountain back in my younger days. So the biggest thing I missed when I got the Model S was Porsche quality and Porsche performance. That “feel” Porsche owners are used to. Those are the main differences. The Taycan handles fantastic. I missed that. It’s not as fast as my S, but it feels faster, if that makes sense? There are also other differences that are not so favorable to Porsche. Obviously the Tesla tech is in a different universe than Porsche. Just setting the “max charge” on the Taycan required a serious deep dive into the manual and 2 or 3 failed attempts with all the confusing timer, location, and ever preset “minimum charge” indicator vs. the well hidden and unnecessarily difficult to set maximum timed charging that Porsche engineers and quantum mechanic theoreticians seem to have collaborated to design. With the Tesla you slide a bar in the screen and you’re done. Simple.

I’ll finish with this: At first, I was disappointed in the way Porsche handled the regenerative braking (RB). My first impression was that it seemed weak, and you always had to turn it on to begin with. But after driving the car for a little while, I realized the initial press of the brakes is actually RB and only with harder press do the brakes engage. On top of that, it seemed that the ability to allow the car to glide without RB actually saves more battery energy than RB puts into the battery by storing energy every time you let up off the accelerator, the way tesla does it. I like the Porsche system better.

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