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Review: 2019 Porsche Macan S




63,000, depending on the size of the engine. Whimsical: A homeowner hires a handyman to paint the porch at the front of his house brown. He comes home and his porch is the same but his silver Porsche 911 in the driveway is now brown. Anecdotal: The pharmacist in the Toronto drugstore I used to frequent when I lived there owns a Porsche Macan S. She loved it when she bought it in 2015 and she loves it today. She has her reasons, which I will detail later, but suffice it to say she had her eye on a Porsche from the time she was a little girl. 鈥淚t was a prestige brand,鈥?she said. 鈥淚t is an important model for us,鈥?he said. Inside, the HD touch screen is bigger (10.9 inches, up from 7.2) for infotainment and connectivity (the 4G LTE on-board Wi-Fi feature is standard and there is web-based navigation).





There are new air vents, an air ionizer to improve air quality in the cabin, USB ports are all around and there鈥檚 a heated front windshield. A GT sports steering wheel (you can have it heated as an option) is available. There are various driving modes on offer, as well as apps. You just have to push the right buttons. An aside: there are lots of buttons to push or icons to touch in just about every new car on the road today, not just Porsches. People complain that they have to take their eyes off the road to find these things. I was at a luncheon with Alfa Romeo F1 driver Antonio Giovinazzi prior to the Grand Prix, and he talked about the steering wheels in modern Grand Prix cars that have a minimum of 25 buttons on them. 鈥淲e have to memorize where they are and what they do,鈥?he said. So, I suggest that we all take a page out of that racing鈥檚 driver鈥檚 book.





If anyone鈥檚 worried about driving distractedly, I suggest it鈥檚 time to memorize the controls/buttons on the console and touch screen. More on the interior: the car is easy to enter and to exit. The seats are plush and comfortable, both front and back (although, while it seats five, the middle seat in the back is not comfortable). I sat in the back seat for awhile and tested the ones behind the driver and passenger seats and found there to be plenty of room for a tall guy like me. Oh, and there are air vents back there and climate controls, too. The 10-speaker Bose sound system is so good that you could swear the Toronto Symphony was all around and you were the conductor in the middle. The trunk 鈥?oops, cargo hold 鈥?is not particularly roomy, but there鈥檚 a lot more room when you put down the rear seats.





55,500 Macan is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-litre, four-cylinder engine that boasts 248 horsepower and 273 lb.-ft. 63,000 Macan S has a 3.0-litre V6 engine with a single turbocharger. It develops 348 hp and 352 lb.-ft. Both have all-wheel drive and a seven-speed automatic transmission. 63,000 numbers are MSRPs for, pretty much, a basic car. If you want the extras 鈥?the options 鈥?it will cost you. For instance, automated emergency braking and adaptive cruise control are options that will push the prices up. There are lots of other things. 63,000 for the Macan S, you can buy a Porsche, and that is really saying something. And they are in showrooms now. Our route took us from the Holiday Inn Express in Deer Lake to Trout River, over to Norris Point (yup) and St. Pauls and then back to Deer Lake. We drove through Gros Morne National Park, which is breathtaking; the fjords that rival Norway鈥檚 are spectacular.

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