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  1. fullmetalbaal

    3 car seats in 2 back seat configuration

    I have enough issues with 2 boosters back there. If not straight up impossible, I'd venture to say any solution you do find is going to be very challenging to actually live with.
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    Rivian shocks with R2, R3, R3X reveals! $45K starting price, 0-60 under 3 secs, 300+ miles range

    well, to be fair, after you started with "very weak brakes", maybe 3.3-3.8 is plenty already ;)
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    🚨 2025 Taycan Officially Revealed! Specs, Wallpaper Photos, Videos & US Pricing

    Not just that... It actually now does >300Kw charging as promised in the beginning... And the performance is more aligned with what an EV should do for the basic Taycan. Sad that they still stuck to the stupid 2 gear transmission... i was hoping they'd nix that POS.
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    Article: The New Macan

    Take away the Porsche badges and lettering, and this doesn't really look like a Porsche to me. From the front it looks like a Lamborghini that was in the sun too long and melted a bit. That said ... hard to really say anything without seeing it in person IMHO.
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    Taycan facelift short drive video

    Let's wait for actual customer cars to see where this lands. Lots of ">300kw" press before the taycan launch, and then it was 270 in actuality. And then they updated the software with "200kw if you want to be nice to your battery". (Suggesting that Porsche has data indicating that 270kw for...
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    Recommendations for motion sickness in the backseat

    Super helpful thread - I'm going to buy an EmeTerm and see if it helps my daughter. There's something about the Taycan in particular in our case - she is fine in the 911, Model X, many many other cars. The Taycan however? 5-10 min will do it on some days. It's just weird. We've tried suspension...
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    Reliability Survey: Taycan #1 of the ...

    Ahh, the optimism of a newer Taycan owner. I'm almost 3 years in, and that optimism has faded. Meaningful updates are few and far in between, and they haven't done much to address the lagginess and bugs.
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    The new Taycan has finally been revealed!

    The fact that they don't mind having their design heavily inspired by their "benchmark competition" tends to fool western observers. Having recently been to China and been in a number of Chinese EVs was eye opening. (1) Unlike western OEMs, they quickly copy & then improve on what they see from...
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    Goodbye folks... 4s and 3 year summary review...

    My impression is that Rivian is doing a better job updating their software. Not Tesla level frequent, but substantially better than Porsche (low bar, I know). Some of my pet peeves about the Taycan is that we are still lacking features that frankly in 2023 a Porsche should have. And there's...
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    Goodbye folks... 4s and 3 year summary review...

    My lease is also approaching the point where I have to decide what car to drive next. It's likely not going to be a Taycan. Just too many issues, both in terms of sw quality and in terms of overall design/trade-offs. And their pace in the last 2 years gives me zero confidence that they will...
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    Tesla Cybertruck beats 911 while towing a 911

    I must have missed that one. Everytime I read about safety & Tesla, they seem to do quite well. https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/tesla/model+y/46618 https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/tesla/model+s/47760 https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/tesla/model+3/37573...
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    Taycan 2 Year Service

    Check what's on the list they suggest. Here in the PNW they throw on a bunch of stuff you don't need (disinfecting the interior or something like that ?!). They are bent on maintaining their revenue/margins even in the face of EVs not needing much. The only 2 items I recall being meaningful were...
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    Taycan refresh update model undisguised! 🕵🏻‍♂️

    If that is real, this "Refresh" is worse in every single way that it's different from the original. I mean, every single external change is a "WTF" style modification. Looks like a bad tuner job to my eyes.
  14. fullmetalbaal

    "Free HV Heater Replacement for Your Taycan Now Available at your Porsche Center"

    Took them longer than a day when they fixed my car. At ~6hrs as per the previously linked doc, seems like you have a decent chance of it fitting it in a day, but also any surprises or scheduling issues and you're looking at it spilling into the next day.
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    Big Discounts on new Taycans

    I left out Macans and Cayennes because I'm not in the market for a Porsche SUV and never will be. I have no idea what normal stock levels look like. I have had 911s, I continue to look for a new one. I know that there usually aren't many, if any, in stock. I have bought a Taycan, and I spent...
  16. fullmetalbaal

    Big Discounts on new Taycans

    Dunno. In my experience, not too different in the US. In Bellevue, new: 0 911 8 Panamera 10 Taycan They also seemed far more willing to talk about discounts on a Taycan than before. The whole market is cooling, and their projections are apparently particularly off for the Taycan. Not too...
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    How often is your Taycan on fire?

    There's this video of a driver that somehow crashes his BMW into the median and the car catches fire. Driver is unresponsive, bystanders end up smashing the window and pulling him out. (I assume the driver had a medical emergency or was completely smashed). The car was catching fire quickly -...
  18. fullmetalbaal

    How often is your Taycan on fire?

    It is. Same here: I've set it to unlock when I hit Park - so the doors SHOULD be unlocked. But this whole thing starting a thread is my point: we're arguing about how this thing behaves in a Taycan forum. I don't think rescue workers/firefighters do this research for all the new cars. The...
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    How often is your Taycan on fire?

    All I know is that when I drop my kids off at their school, folks regularly struggle with the door handle when it's not extended. (we have one of those "drive through drop-offs" and teachers/school staff open the doors for the kids). Not saying it's that difficult... but I can imagine that...
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    How often is your Taycan on fire?

    On the outside, I've had folks struggle to open the door a number of times. I'm also not 100% confident that the mechanism works flawlessly when power is out and they don't extend.


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