personally, I found I needed to carry around more 'stuff' when the kids were younger... strollers, car seats etc... it would have had to be the CT/ST for me then.
I do think they look great too, but I do prefer the saloon, could be spending a big percentage of my working life on car aerodynamics!
I might be silly or missing something, but why not get a bike carrier?
At the end of the day, I reached the same conclusion during my internal mental debate between the sedan and the "wagon." Even though I have a couple kids and sometimes need to haul their crap, I concluded that a station wagon is a station wagon, even if it is a Porsche. IMHO, buying the "family truckster" puts one on a very slippery slope toward giving up on life. Rather than calling the wagon the "CT", Porsche could have just as easily named it the "TayCan't." Putting aside my personal psychological baggage from the 1970s/1980s, the CT is a bad-ass ride and if Porsche had introduced it first I would be driving one. There are however a couple points to consider if one is torn between the practicality, i.e. extra crap hauling space, of the CT vs the devilishly good looks of the sedan. Really consider your personal use case; after 18 months of ownership, like the majority of Taycan sedan owners on this forum, I have never needed to use the frunk. In fact, there are threads on the forum dedicated to possible uses for the extra frunk storage space. This tells me that the sedan already has plenty of real world practicality for the vast majority of owners. The other point to consider (albeit somewhat subjective) is that you need to be a lot more careful with color and wheel selections on the CT. For example, black tends to exaggerate the long roofline of the CT and Mission-E wheels somehow look out of place on a station wagon. Finally, Porsche does not yet offer either OEM woodgrain treatments or spoked hubcaps, and owners will therefore have to go aftermarket to achieve the full effect!I don‘t understand the appeal of station wagons, but i see they’re popular in Europe. Does anyone make a fake woodgrain kit for a Taycan yet?
I don’t want a roof rack on the car. Range and looks. And I don’t want to faff on taking it on and off every weekend. That’s the reason for me mate.
Forgive my ignorance- apologies for the off topic question but I’ve been meaning to ask UK folks this: Where do the terms “estate” and “saloon” derive from? Prior to joining this forum many months ago I haven’t heard of these before.
No idea of the origin, they are the normal English words for these two types of cars and always have been afaik.
I assume (and am too lazy to Google confirmation ? ) that "estate" (and for that matter, "station wagon") has similar origins to "shooting brake", which was also used at least until the 1960's to describe similar vehicles, most often ones with real or fake wooden panels. "Shooting brake" predates cars, and was used to describe horse-drawn carriages that the landed gentry used to transport their hunting paraphernalia. "Station wagon" was another horse-drawn carriage, used to transport posh people or their belongings and purchases to and from their nearest railway station. "Estates" would be a general purpose carriage used in the running and maintenance of their country estate.
True… there are definitely different words used between the two “languages” to describe the same or similar thing. I just googled it and came up with the below. No idea if it’s accurate though ?
thanks for the background ?. Interesting stuff.
