is that a gray hair time to face
facts I'm not a young man anymore it's time to stop acting like
it if you ain't talking money I don't understand if you ain't talking paper I
don't understand if you ain't talking I don't understand if you ain't getting
dollar I don't
understand yeah you know what I think
I'm good all of this it really isn't me
but after spending the last month with the Porsche tyan fors I can finally say
I get why some people are into it believe it or not I haven't gotten a lot
of double takes in my life so driving
around in the tan made me feel cool in a way that I've I've just never gotten to
experience before like who wouldn't want to know something about the 30 something
in a car that's worth more than a year of their salary Right add in the fact
that this is the most fun I've ever had on four wheels and the big question
becomes why did you just give the keys away truthfully it's because everything
from sitting behind the wheel to seeing it in my garage makes makes me feel like
it's too good for me but explaining why
is going to take a little while so have a
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walking into a Porsche dealership is the most emotional experience that I've ever
had shopping for a car starting with overwhelming confusion the tyan is built
as the most customizable Porsche yet with 90 options to configure and while
the representative did try to guide me through the experience most of the stuff
is honestly better explained through Porsche Forum posts and of the $40,000
worth of options on this car some like the larger battery are totally worth it
While others feel more than a bit excessive then I went on the test drive
and boy did that ever stir up some different emotions just so it's clear to
everyone Gear Head don't care about cars at all you all need to stop comparing
Teslas to Porsches one feels like
operating a giant RC car and the other
one the other one feels like driving
according to Porsche the 4S model makes 482 horsepower and 479 ftlb of
torque feels pretty good to me but this
is really fun stratified Automotive who
happens to be not only a YouTube channel
but also our neighbor in the complex we work in came over they saw this thing in
the parking lot and they were like hey guys we would love to throw that on the
dyno and we found out some really interesting things number one is that
por is actually overselling the horsepower on this particular model to
the tune of about 50 horsepower but we weren't too salty about it because the
reality of it is it mostly comes down to
torque if you want to talk about how pey the car feels and it turns out it
actually has 184 more foot-pounds of torque than
Porsche rated it for they are seriously
underselling the kick of this thing sorry guys your head's okay get a con
over there I really cannot overstate how much pull this thing has so foot on the
brake foot on the gas that puts you in launch control and all we got to do is
release the brake you guys ready Brandon get your head against the head there we
go 0 to 60 in 3.8 seconds and that's it
that's about as much fun as you're going to have on an actual Road the suspension
in this thing too is just unbelievable somehow it manages to smooth out even
the bumpiest roads while also feeling
firmly planted and I guess you could
kind of call it a downside but one of the effects of that is that doing 100
120 down the freeway feels like 10 in a parking lot it just really is an
otherworldly Driving Experience just
make sure you keep control of your lead foot because um especially in this color
I don't think you're getting off with a warning when you're at a track and
allowed to push past what you're legally able to on the roads though oh my God
this thing is fun so in like normal and Sport modes you push on you get a bit of
under steer it's pretty good but now I'm going to Chuck it into Sport Plus we
have traction control totally off bring
her into this corner here nice and balanced then on the
gas oh my God you can do big
slides holy crap now what makes this
different than a normal car well in most cars you get what's a mcferson strut
suspension so that's you know shock on top of the bearing carrier whereas in
this thing right here you have a double a AR suspension so you're able to have
much better control of you know how the tire hits the road during the whole
travel now just handling on the track isn't the hardest thing to do what's
difficult is to have great handling on the track while also not destroying your
back back on the road now Porsche has two things that allow you to do this the
first is an air suspension so that allows you to raise it up to go over
bumps and drop it right down low for you know track use like this but what I like
even more is the Adaptive dampers so dampers resist changes in speed of the
suspension so without them you know you just start bouncing up and down and how
they work is that oil is forced through a bunch of little holes now by changing
the size of those holes you're able to change how much it damps to take it from
you know able to
do that until you know making them a
little bit bigger so that it's nice to
have on the road in my opinion that should be on every single car that's
above like $30,000 now as fun as fun as this is
there's a lot wrong with this and pretty much all of it has to do with the tech
although I want to do one more drift oh God
everything about the tian's interior is laid out logically at least I assume
that's the case if so it must be some kind of higher German logic because my
Misadventures with the controls and infotainment system started with not
being able to turn off the heated steering wheel during my test drive and
basically went downhill from there my 8-year-old son suggested tapping the
steering steing wheel in the ventilation configuration menu which I honestly
thought was a pretty good idea but that didn't do it so we resolved to just ask
when we got back to the dealer turns out it's down here the learning curve on
this thing is steep even after you read the owner's manual but then even after
that there are a bunch of really annoying things that automakers have had
figured out for decades that somehow got broken when they translated them to a
touchscreen every time the car is turned on for example the driving mode gets
reset to normal and regenerative braking gets turned off why wouldn't it just be
exactly how I set it up the last time I was driving especially because you have
an individualized driving mode and who
at Porsche thought that this climate control screen was better than physical
knobs changing the temperature takes forever you should be able to just swipe
this to go in larger increments also you can't physically control the vents
they're done on the touchcreen which would be mostly fine Tesla does it but
every time you change where the vents are facing it resets the fan speed to
Auto again why possibly the most
egregious thing though is the display dimming at night where you have to go
deep into the menus and find the brightness setting adjust it and then go
back and do the same thing for every single display it's a really good thing
the Adaptive crws and Lane keep are excellent because that's a lot of
distracted driving so much of it just
feels Half Baked like kind of like the engineers tested this thing on the track
went man this is fun to drive and then called it a day I mean even Bluetooth
audio is subpar pairing your phone is fine but this is just about the
clunkiest media control experience that I have ever had built into a car repeat
song outright didn't work for me at all
and why does the first second of my song cut off when I go back a track I can
literally buy a $20 dongle on eBay that doesn't have that problem now a fair few
of these things could easily be solved by simply plugging in a type-c cable and
using Android auto could except that the
tyan only has carplay which is why I had
to daily drive an iPhone while I was doing this review and if you don't
happen to have an iPhone that you can just switch to when you're driving your
Porsche you're just going to have a terrible time now I remember being
warned on Twitter to make sure that I evaluate this car in the proper context
it's focused on driving they said okay
but here's a question for you is listening to music not an integral part
of driving the Bose speaker system sounds great so clearly Porsche thought
it was what about being able to quickly and easily navigate menus with a
responsive touchcreen is that intrical to driving Tesla thinks so I mean heck
even Volkswagen porous parent company can do it on a car that is five times
cheaper and what is this this if I click
on phone for someone with only one number it will prompt me for which thing
to call including email what am I going to do with email from behind the wheel
of a car I'm sorry Porsche apologists
there is only one word to describe this kind of deficiency in a vehicle that
costs this much excuse if the
infotainment is an integral part of the Driving Experience then it should be
good and if it isn't then maybe it just shouldn't have one like seriously I
think this would actually be a better car if three of these displays were gone
for all of my grapes though there were a lot of things about this car that were
just on a completely different level as I mentioned before the adaptive cruise
control it's awesome I was finally able
to use this feature without my wife feeling nauseated by The Jerky stopping
and starting like she was in the model Y and since I'm making that comparison
having proper windshield wiper controls is something I never thought I'd have to
give out a gold star for until I used Tesla's horrible touchscreen ones not
that I even needed them here anyway since Porsche's rain sensors were way
better too the parking camera can be configured in a number of ways to suit
your style and it automatically engages when you approach a parking spot at low
speed it's pretty nice the seat comfort and adjustments were beyond anything I
have ever experienced in my life and
again the ride quality
what I find hilarious about the tech lineus likes in the Tian the adaptive
cruise control Auto wipers parking sensors as far as I can tell it's
exactly what's in my Golf GTI what my golf doesn't have though is crippling
range anxiety Porsche have done so much to the extend the range of this thing
from the flaps that close when the radiators aren't needed these vents here
that create a curtain of air around the tires to help reduce drag and just the
overall shape which isn't just beautiful but slight es through the air so well
but maybe it's just the weight of my right foot I found I was going through
the charge surprisingly fast although Porsche thought of a solution to that
too 723 volt fast charging and when it
works it's amazing there's a charger in a park near my house so I go walk the
dog come back full charge and it's for a fraction of what a tank of gas would
cost when it works only two of the seven
fast charges I've tried actually worked two are actually slow Chargers two are
broken and one just straight up didn't exist anymore I almost got stranded last
night after three in a row were broken and this is in Vancouver I thought the
charging network was pretty good here apparently Tesla's superchargers are
solid but they won't let me use them due to billing problems yes sure Elon for my
part though I can see the below average range being a disappointment for some
buyers but as someone who's not into road tripping and who has a charger in
my garage I don't foresee any point in the future that that would be a problem
like 300 M is more than enough for your daily commute and enough for the vast
majority of your Sunday Adventures which will be mind-blowing by the way the tyan
more than any other electric car yet gets me excited about the future and the
advancements that we're about to see it proves to me that electric cars can be
fun and engaging in a way that Teslas just aren't but while the carness is
great as a tech Enthusiast I think it's fair to say that Porsche still has some
homework to do things like the charging Network those will almost certainly
improve but the infotainment system is a
big question mark for me about this vehicle Common Sense would dictate that
they can fix that through updates it's just software but that assumes that the
team has both the drive and the leadership to improve it and that
there's a desire from Porsche to look after these early adopters instead of
just fixing it in the next model year facelift and leaving this one to
depreciate hard if I had 160 Grand to
spend should I roll these dice then or
just keep waiting and for me the bigger question is why should I take part in
this experiment when the GT3 exists it seems like Porsche have landed on the
perfect internal combustion engine and with emission regulations getting
tougher and tougher who knows how much longer they'll be able to make it it
would be a shame to miss out on that though the plus side of this experience
is that when they do kill the Flat 6 what's coming around the corner will not
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