ericj320
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- MY22 Taycan 4S
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We are just a few weeks away from the freeze date for our 4S build and just down to a last few decisions. Battery size probably being the biggest of those remaining choices, I was hoping for some help understanding the overwhelming consensus here for the PB+. We are heavily leaning towards the standard battery and struggle with justifying the need to pay $5500 to upgrade it to the PB+. We have almost never taken either of our Macan S‘s on a road trip that would even come close to pushing the limits of the PB. In part because we have another vehicle that is more suited for road trips (hopefully next year that vehicle will become the F150 Lightning), and my wife has a strict “no eating in the Porsche” rule, and road trips with kids almost certainly involve eating in the car. Not to mention real road trips for us involve way more gear than a Taycan, or any Porsche for that matter, could hold.
I understand people’s comments regarding resale value, but I’m also struggling to understand that argument, as it’s $5500 less initial cost, I’d expect it to get less in resale. First, I feel for the most part, trying to configure a car for what the next owner might want can be a bit of a fool’s errand. Sure, there are some features every car needs, but $5500 for 30 miles more range and 50ish more HP seems excessive to me since we don’t need it. Doesn’t it become a bad choice only when in resale you get more then $5500 less than vehicles with the PB+? There‘s little data on Taycans to get a sense of what resale value is, or will be, especially with used car values where there are now. Of course there is no guarantee, but Porsche projects values at the end of a lease to only be $2912 difference, if you figure the max residual for a PB+ vs PB. Also, looking at Teslas, in my research I’m seeing just a couple of thousand difference between their 70kwh and 85/90kwh variants. Again, not proof of anything, but just more circumstantial evidence to lead me to believe that one shouldn’t expect to get $5500+ more in resale over the standard battery. And would actually need to be slightly more if you figure in finance costs of that additional $5500.
What am I missing? Again, we are absolutely certain we would be more the satisfied with the PB for our use and needs, our only holdup has been all the recommendations based on resale value alone. I’ll add, my SA seems ambivalent on the issue. In general he sees value in it, but tends to agree that value won’t equate to improved use for us, or a significant enough ROI to justify it on resale alone if we don’t need it
Thanks for any thoughts on my points, your opinion on those points are welcome and appreciated!
I understand people’s comments regarding resale value, but I’m also struggling to understand that argument, as it’s $5500 less initial cost, I’d expect it to get less in resale. First, I feel for the most part, trying to configure a car for what the next owner might want can be a bit of a fool’s errand. Sure, there are some features every car needs, but $5500 for 30 miles more range and 50ish more HP seems excessive to me since we don’t need it. Doesn’t it become a bad choice only when in resale you get more then $5500 less than vehicles with the PB+? There‘s little data on Taycans to get a sense of what resale value is, or will be, especially with used car values where there are now. Of course there is no guarantee, but Porsche projects values at the end of a lease to only be $2912 difference, if you figure the max residual for a PB+ vs PB. Also, looking at Teslas, in my research I’m seeing just a couple of thousand difference between their 70kwh and 85/90kwh variants. Again, not proof of anything, but just more circumstantial evidence to lead me to believe that one shouldn’t expect to get $5500+ more in resale over the standard battery. And would actually need to be slightly more if you figure in finance costs of that additional $5500.
What am I missing? Again, we are absolutely certain we would be more the satisfied with the PB for our use and needs, our only holdup has been all the recommendations based on resale value alone. I’ll add, my SA seems ambivalent on the issue. In general he sees value in it, but tends to agree that value won’t equate to improved use for us, or a significant enough ROI to justify it on resale alone if we don’t need it
Thanks for any thoughts on my points, your opinion on those points are welcome and appreciated!
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