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Featured Porsche Review: ‘MAKE IT A MACAN’

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Car and Driving’s Independent Used Review of the Porsche Macan (2018 - 2021)

By Jonathan Crouch
Added 7^th March, 2022

‘Life, intensified’. According to Porsche, this is what this car was all about. In its time, it certainly intensified the whole concept of what an SUV could be. Cars of this kind - even sporting ones - are almost always born out of compromise. They might sometimes look the part, but sheer weight and size have to tell somewhere. Those issues affect a Macan too, but far less significantly than you might ever have imagined was possible with this class of car. If you need five seats, decent luggage space and go-anywhere versatility but secretly still crave that little sports car or hot hatch you used to love so much, we can’t think of anything better to recommend as a day-to-day choice from the 2018-2021 era for someone on a premium budget. This is, in summary, the car all its rivals wanted to be in the 2018-2021 period. The car most buyers in this segment from this time wanted to have. There are, it’s true, more efficient or more spacious choices in this sector from this era. Some premium mid-sized SUVs from this time are better equipped or will take you further off road. And almost all will cost slightly less. For all that though, this is an addictive package, a segment-defining car and a very desirable thing indeed.

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