Mac 2 or not to Mac 2. Advise please.

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Dandock
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Guy wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:26 pm Stick a two-year warranty extension on your current car and defer any decision until new Macan GTS is available to order. Then post again and see if you can resist the peer pressure to change to the facelift model! :lol:
I certainly want to see what the new engines (and suspension) bring to the party before doing anything.
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Save your pennies for an upgrade to a driveway!

But seriously the Macan update looks very weak, hardly worth throwing good money at from a relatively new current car. Maybe a hybrid version might be tempting if they get round to it? Sounds like the following generation will be full EV, so that driveway will definitely be something to aspire to! Or maybe there will be a split in the Porsche lineage with hybrid and full EV options going forward? I'm not even sure Porsche themselves have fully thought this through yet.
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Peteski wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:41 pm Save your pennies for an upgrade to a driveway!

But seriously the Macan update looks very weak, hardly worth throwing good money at from a relatively new current car. Maybe a hybrid version might be tempting if they get round to it? Sounds like the following generation will be full EV, so that driveway will definitely be something to aspire to! Or maybe there will be a split in the Porsche lineage with hybrid and full EV options going forward? I'm not even sure Porsche themselves have fully thought this through yet.
I think it would be helpful to us all if Governments etc had fully thought it through too. How the world abhors a vacuum!
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Post by Spud »

Dandock, from what I’ve seen of the facelift Macan there would not be enough there to tempt me to change at this moment in time, having had the S,SD and now GTS then I do believe the GTS is the one to have, in all honesty I wouldn’t have swapped my SD had I not been offered such a good deal plus concerns over Diesel, my GTS is definitely a keeper for 5 years min, I would sit tight with what you have, it’s lost the biggest chunk surely, and see how things pan out with new models
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Post by Triple7 »

Buy a new one!

I don’t see the point in EV’s at this stage, no point lugging 2 tonnes of batteries around in a sports SUV! :roll:

If you want a GTS, wait a year, if you want a facelift petrol having your towel down is a good start.

Someone earlier made the analagy about iPhones, I buy mine and run them til they are worthless, decided I’m not doing that again. Apple upgrade programme for me. New phone every 10months, yeah locks you in to payments for life, but I’ll be trading in my old phone at the max part-ex price. Cars are the same, if you want to change, change early to retain as much value for the next one. If you wanna keep, keep it...

Personally their is a lot of uncertainty moving forward, I like to have a PCP, one where I place the max deposit and only pay the interest on the balloon. Means I can walk at the end of the contract with the finance comapny holding the can incase the world has ended.

Call it an insurance policy....
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Keep your deposit in on a .2 and use delaying tactics if needed by changing from a new S to a GTS perhaps. Your current Macan will be good until it's approaching 4 years old and then if you change it before its birthday. Then there will be no 2nd and major service cost. Plus saving perhaps a set of tyres cost etc too. By late 2019 / early 2020 things should be a lot clearer on the future of ICE and the Macan in particular.
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Post by Ray G »

If you trade-in and buy a new one then after 3 years that new one will depreciate by about £25k. If you keep the current one it would depreciate by about £15k.
I'd keep the current one if you are happy with it, skip the 1.2, put a very early deposit on a nominal 2.1 model then decide which one once the line-up is announced.
Much in line with SAC1 really.
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Post by Col Lamb »

Mike

I would not change Kitty for another S.

Go for the GTS or better still if the Turbo arrives at the same time or shortly after the S then go for that, it is by far the best Macan variant and my own Turbo was less than £5k more than the GTS that I specced.
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GMAN75 wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:07 pm Sorry, didn't you just answer your question with: "My current Macan, which is wonderful and I think hard to beat, and has, touch wood, so far been faultless, will be 3 years old next March. And momentary nav moments excepted well fulfills our current needs." ?

I think it's a fool's errand simply to upgrade just because. It's no different, in my view, to standing in line outside an Apple Store awaiting the immediate release of the iPhone 10 when your 9 works just fine and that any marginal improvement in the 10 simply won't be noticed. You don't ever use a car to 100% of its capability. It is a tool to be used.

Everyone likes a shiny new car every couple of years. Trouble is, unless you are a slave to change for changing sake, do you really need it??!
Hi Mike.

Now for a “Do as I say and not as I do” moment!

I agree with GMAN75.

You love ‘Kitty’ and she sounds virtually perfect for your needs. Why change?!

Porsches are generally engineered and built very well. The percentage of ‘elderly’ Porsches still happily running around is very high.

I see only marginal gains in going from an S to a GTS or Turbo (if head rules over heart). ;)

Clearly, my heart regularly overrules my head! :lol:

If your most likely replacement for Kitty is another Porsche Macan, I would hold on until Macan Mk II rather than trading in for a Macan 1.2.

That’s my 2p worth anyway! :)

Cheers,

Simon
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Post by Dandock »

Thanks everyone. The input has certainly cleared my mind and probably confirmed the conclusion I was coming to.

Still, it will be interesting to see what the new engines deliver. You never know... do you Simon!
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