2020 Porsche Macan S Luxury SUV Introduce

2020 Porsche Macan S Luxury SUV Introduce https://youtu.be/g063nH3ORHI

The 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo puts up some impressive numbers. Its twin-turbo V6 engine makes a healthy 434 horsepower and 405 pound-feet of torque. It'll scoot to 60 mph in as little as 4.1 seconds. It comes with Porsche's surface-coated brakes behind 20-inch wheels, and you can add a number of sporty upgrades like torque-vectoring tech, an adaptive air suspension and carbon-ceramic stoppers. It's the most performance-oriented Macan yet.

It makes a great first impression, too. Blasting along winding German backroads east of Porsche's headquarters in Stuttgart, I'm reminded that the Macan is one of the best-driving SUVs available at any price. The entire Macan range received some meaningful updates for 2019, including aluminum suspension components that are stronger and lighter than the previous steel hardware. Combined with the optional, three-stage air suspension, the Macan goes from comfortable 'bahn-burner to taut canyon-carver with the push of a button.
The small-diameter steering wheel is nicely weighted and the lines of communication between the road and driver are crystal clear. You get plenty of feedback through both the steering and seat of your pants, meaning it's easy to carry lots of speed through tight corners, simply because you've got a great sense of your grip at road level. Being an SUV, the Macan has a tendency to resort to safe understeer should you push a bit too hard while entering a hairpin bend, but a quick stab of the throttle puts the optional torque-vectoring system to work, shuffling power side to side to help the rear end rotate. You can drive this thing like a 911 Carrera all day long and it absolutely will not mind. Nor will it ever let you down.

Normally, this is where I'd dig into a caveat about Porsche's surface-coated brakes, which are standard on the Macan Turbo. First launched on the Cayenne, they've been lauded by critics (myself included) for their hard-to-modulate characteristics at low speeds. Happily, Porsche did some more fine tuning, and is now fitting new pads to all of its surface-coated brake applications. Combined with reworked pedal feel, they give the Macan a more natural, progressive stopping experience, whether quickly halting from highway speeds, or slogging through stop-and-go traffic at 10 mph. All Macan Turbo models will roll off the line with these brakes as standard, and any new so-optioned Cayenne built as of this writing will have the better pads, too. You can get ceramic composite brakes on the Macan Turbo, if you'd like, but given how strong and fade-free the surface-coated stoppers are, and now that they aren't herky-jerky to use, it feels like an unnecessary upgrade.

At the heart of the Macan Turbo is a new 2.9-liter, twin-turbo V6, producing the aforementioned 434 hp and 405 lb-ft. That's a 34-hp increase over the previous Macan Turbo, but torque is basically a wash. Still, because the new engine delivers its power lower in the rev range, and with more urgency, the Macan Turbo's 4.1-second 0-to-60-mph time is 0.3 seconds quicker than before. Even without the Sport Chrono pack -- which includes launch control, a Sport Plus mode and the push-to-pass Sport Response button -- the Macan Turbo will hit 60 mph in a definitely not-slow 4.3 seconds.