I was looking through the configurator for the facelift Macan S and, not for the first time wondered whether anyone specifying Sports/Chrono actually uses it after checking whether it works. Under normal traffic conditions in the UK I can't see that 0.2s difference in the 0-62 time is much use. Also would the faster gearchange create an overtaking opportunity that wasn't available with the standard transmission?
As I've never driven a Macan with this option I don't know the answer to my question and would welcome feedback from current owners.
Is the Sport/Chrono Option a Waste of Money? Discuss
Peter
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Gone- 2015 Sapphire Blue Diesel
Gone -2013 Cayenne Diesel
It’s only useful to satisfy the inner hooligan. How important that is depends on you.
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Have it on my Turbo. Must-have option according to sales guy. Used it twice. OK on a 911 on a closed circuit. Not so usefull on a 2 tonne SUV on normal roads. I personally wouldn’t have it again. If you want to rev the engine higher than it does in Sport mode, just work it manually. And you can put pasm in hardest setting without Sports Plus too. Sports Plus also shuts PSM almost off, which I wouldn’t want in a 2 tonne car anyway.
Last edited by Orangebulldog on Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:54 am, edited 1 time in total.
Spot on.. I would spec it just for that. In real world overtaking, it would not matter.Tom 2000 wrote:It’s only useful to satisfy the inner hooligan. How important that is depends on you.
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For me, it's being able to get some control back from the PDK. I bought a Porsche, not because of the badge or the 0-62 times, but because of how the car drives and how it feels to drive it. Sports Plus mode gives you more immediate control of gear and throttle input. From the 2016 year it also gives you a PSM sport mode which makes driving in slippery conditions much more fun .
I was so disappointed with PDK and the drive train in general on my first Macan that I had Sports Chrono retrofitted, and it transformed the car.
First box I ticked on the second Macan.
There are many things that come with SC...
So don't think of Sports Chrono of a singular "it" that you might "use only twice." It's way more than that.
Waste of money? Well in the great pantheon of the Porsche options list, I'd say it's one of the bargains.
If your eyes glaze over, or your brows furrow reading the above, then yea, you can probably save a few quid and leave it alone
I was so disappointed with PDK and the drive train in general on my first Macan that I had Sports Chrono retrofitted, and it transformed the car.
First box I ticked on the second Macan.
There are many things that come with SC...
- the stopwatch? I hardly every use it.
- the Sport Plus drive train mode? I use it every time I use manual, which is on almost all trips. Indeed without Sports Plus mode, I don't think I'd ever bother using manual/paddles.
- Launch Control ? I don't see the point on roads and you don't usually do launches on tracks, so it really is a bit pointless. Good for 0-62mph stats junkies I suppose.
- Telemetry? Surprisingly, I've used this quite a lot for checking out different routes. Would't miss it if it wasn't there though.
- PSM Sport mode? I use this way more than PSM completely off.
So don't think of Sports Chrono of a singular "it" that you might "use only twice." It's way more than that.
Waste of money? Well in the great pantheon of the Porsche options list, I'd say it's one of the bargains.
If your eyes glaze over, or your brows furrow reading the above, then yea, you can probably save a few quid and leave it alone
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Certainly use it on fun roads, a fast twisty B road in Wales, for example. And it would have been awesome on the Route des Grandes Alpes recently but for some reason we chose to take the 911 instead!
Nick
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In personally would really, really have liked an analogue clock in its place! No use where I do most of my driving for SC, or a. compass FFS.
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