911 to Macan
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Any of you make the switch and what are your impressions of the Macan? I have driven one and was really impressed with the overall handling and power. My current daily driver/commuter car is a 2013 Carrera with manual transmission. Absolutely love the car but my co-pilot to work is a canine (Griffon Wirehaired Pointer) and I'm really only considering the switch to given him a bit more room. 120 mile roundtrip for work.
I removed the rear sear backs and built him a nice foam platform that is covered but every now and then I feel a little awkward using this car as my dog carrier. He doesn't mind it at all. Just jumps in and lays down. So, enter the Macan. One of my reservations is that I'm getting close to 30 mpg and the Macon doesn't get nearly that. Considering either a turbo or the S.
Never have owned a garage princess and never will. Stuff I have gets used but taken care of. You'd never know there's ever been a dog in my 991.
I removed the rear sear backs and built him a nice foam platform that is covered but every now and then I feel a little awkward using this car as my dog carrier. He doesn't mind it at all. Just jumps in and lays down. So, enter the Macan. One of my reservations is that I'm getting close to 30 mpg and the Macon doesn't get nearly that. Considering either a turbo or the S.
Never have owned a garage princess and never will. Stuff I have gets used but taken care of. You'd never know there's ever been a dog in my 991.
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Any of you make the switch and what are your impressions of the Macan? I have driven one and was really impressed with the overall handling and power. My current daily driver/commuter car is a 2013 Carrera with manual transmission. Absolutely love the car but my co-pilot to work is a canine (Griffon Wirehaired Pointer) and I'm really only considering the switch to given him a bit more room. 120 mile roundtrip for work.
I removed the rear sear backs and built him a nice foam platform that is covered but every now and then I feel a little awkward using this car as my dog carrier. He doesn't mind it at all. Just jumps in and lays down. So, enter the Macan. One of my reservations is that I'm getting close to 30 mpg and the Macon doesn't get nearly that. Considering either a turbo or the S.
Never have owned a garage princess and never will. Stuff I have gets used but taken care of. You'd never know there's ever been a dog in my 991.
I removed the rear sear backs and built him a nice foam platform that is covered but every now and then I feel a little awkward using this car as my dog carrier. He doesn't mind it at all. Just jumps in and lays down. So, enter the Macan. One of my reservations is that I'm getting close to 30 mpg and the Macon doesn't get nearly that. Considering either a turbo or the S.
Never have owned a garage princess and never will. Stuff I have gets used but taken care of. You'd never know there's ever been a dog in my 991.
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Love the car and don't really want to change but considering it.
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Only my male German Shepherd liked to lay down/sleep in the car and he would be down 5 min. into a drive. All the rest have been "heads out the window" dogs, wouldn't work well in a 911. The dog I have now spends most of her time sitting (up) in the middle of the back seat, even during multiple 10 hr. drives between Nashville and FL that dog never spent more than 1 hr. laying down. I have a "dog hammock" for the back seat of the truck, keeps her from falling in the footwell if I stop quickly. Works great and helps protect the seats too. When she rides in the Macan I put the seat down and have a dog mattress back there.
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It's as close to a 911 in feel and experience as anything with 4 doors will get, based on my experience of driving literally everything with 4 doors. It won't be a 911, but if you're working with functionality "compromises", that's the best way to put it.
Coming from a 911, I'd recommend AS/PASM. AS will lower the COG and minimize the gargantuan wheel gap of the base suspension models, and hold the car so flat and stable/firm through turns and bumps that it gives me freakish reminiscents (all things considered) of the 911's I've driven on a track.
SC, PTV, etc. also can help bring you as close as this chassis can possibly get to the sports car feel you're used to.
There's no replacing a 911, but the Macan is as close in feel as any 4 door has come, to me at least, especially when optioned right. It even looks like a 911 in a fat suit.
Coming from a 911, I'd recommend AS/PASM. AS will lower the COG and minimize the gargantuan wheel gap of the base suspension models, and hold the car so flat and stable/firm through turns and bumps that it gives me freakish reminiscents (all things considered) of the 911's I've driven on a track.
SC, PTV, etc. also can help bring you as close as this chassis can possibly get to the sports car feel you're used to.
There's no replacing a 911, but the Macan is as close in feel as any 4 door has come, to me at least, especially when optioned right. It even looks like a 911 in a fat suit.
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It's as close to a 911 in feel and experience as anything with 4 doors will get, based on my experience of driving literally everything with 4 doors. It won't be a 911, but if you're working with functionality "compromises", that's the best way to put it.
Coming from a 911, I'd recommend AS/PASM. AS will lower the COG and minimize the gargantuan wheel gap of the base suspension models, and hold the car so flat and stable/firm through turns and bumps that it gives me freakish reminiscents (all things considered) of the 911's I've driven on a track.
SC, PTV, etc. also can help bring you as close as this chassis can possibly get to the sports car feel you're used to.
There's no replacing a 911, but the Macan is as close in feel as any 4 door has come, to me at least, especially when optioned right. It even looks like a 911 in a fat suit.
Coming from a 911, I'd recommend AS/PASM. AS will lower the COG and minimize the gargantuan wheel gap of the base suspension models, and hold the car so flat and stable/firm through turns and bumps that it gives me freakish reminiscents (all things considered) of the 911's I've driven on a track.
SC, PTV, etc. also can help bring you as close as this chassis can possibly get to the sports car feel you're used to.
There's no replacing a 911, but the Macan is as close in feel as any 4 door has come, to me at least, especially when optioned right. It even looks like a 911 in a fat suit.
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I said that with especially the right performance options, it's as close to a 911 in overall experience as any 4 door will get. That's talking relativity, nothing more, and I think it's extremely true.
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I don't know KA, read your post were you stated "coming from a 911" which you didn't and then tried to cover by saying a life time of air cooled, so I just am not seeing were you get a comparison. You did not come from a 911, you came from a BMW, so how are you making a accurate comparison if you have never owned a 991 - 911 which the OP was asking? So if you are going to do a comparison and have never had a 991 but supposedly had air cooled, you can't make a intelligent comparison against a 991-911 to a Macan which is what the OP was asking for.