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This was fun but I suspect some slick marketing here.

Who shows up to configure a new car that he hasn't even driven before?

"Hello? Yes, I'd like to make an appointment to sit down (on camera) and spec out a car...and while I'm there I should also probably drive it and see if I like it."
 

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This is all marketing. I have seen several videos now where they bring people to configure their "dream" car at the LA experience center and they do it in less than 10 minutes and of course all of them PTS, as if they are going to be waiting for them forever and then drive them.
 

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Indeed, he had already chosen a PTS colour and that would take hours IME.

OTOH back when I was a Formula 1 technical director Porsche told me I would jump the build queue, but in the end the NA 911 (993) was too slow and the turbo had too much lag to be acceptable so I got a different car instead.
 


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^ Are you saying it is a problem? This is the way we like it as Porsche customers as building your own bespoke car is part of the experience. The downside is the used market where you end up with a mix of undesirable option choices.

One thing that is clear to me, that a lot of youtubers go through the building videos but really have not seen or experienced the options in real life, so it becomes is what you see on the configurator and say something, which is just a waste of time. Not a single one went into details of how options look or function in real life, pros and cons, and compromises as we know to add one sometimes takes something away.
 
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For sure the Motor Trend series is marketing. I have watched and enjoyed them, and if there were another one for either the Taycan or the Macan , would wartch It too. Over 1/4 million views on each of the four I have watched, so in my case, “successful marketing.”
 

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For sure the Motor Trend series is marketing. I have watched and enjoyed them, and if there were another one for either the Taycan or the Macan , would wartch It too. Over 1/4 million views on each of the four I have watched, so in my case, “successful marketing.”
There is one for the Macan and just fluff, but still almost 300k views.


 

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At least this one appears to be real as Brad Pitt actually bought and drives his Taycan.

The one thing the article gets totally wrong is the "value is close to" statement and "one of the latest", so I am thinking this is fake AI stuff. Notice odd dark circles differ from one picture to another on the wheels that are not tire valves. Article states it is just Black and Gold, well we know it is not called Gold, so AI should be better than calling it that.

Interesting that you can clearly see the monkey butt license plate holder but no license plate, AI removed? For the record, I removed my monkey butt license plate (US regs) holder as I hate the look.

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