Porsche Macan UK Review - Should You Buy One in 2022?

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Porsche's Macan continues to be an SUV with the soul - and the engineering - or a sportscar. You might expect it to be fast and family-friendly. More of a surprise is that it's rewarding and, with the right spec, very nearly race-ready in its responses. Yet it'll comfortably take you off road, deal with the school run and cruise down to Chamonix. It's very special. Especially in this improved form.
Market and Model
There are now three levels to a Macan range that for some time now has been exclusively petrol-powered. We'll quote prices applicable at the time of this test in Spring 2022. Things kick off at a fraction under £50,000 for the standard 2.0-litre model, now with 265PS. The next level up takes you up to around £54,000 and gives you a choice of powerplants, either the same 2.0-litre unit with a more focused handling set-up in the Macan T; or the top 2.9-litre V6 engine in a 380PS state of tune in the Macan S.
Finally, if you can stretch to around £66,000, you can get yourself the flagship Macan GTS derivative that we tried, a 440PS 2.9-litre V6 variant that's basically a repackaged version of the old top 'Turbo' model. By that point though, you'll find this car seriously overlapping into the kind of pricing that could also buy you the brand's larger Cayenne SUV, which in entry-level 340PS form costs around £63,000 as a standard SUV, or £67,000 in Coupe guise. If it's a Macan you really want, then you'll find that, as is usual in this segment, all variants in the range get auto transmission, a 7-speed PDK set-up with steering wheel paddleshifters.
Cost of Ownership
Porsche has worked hard to keep the running cost efficiency figures of this revised model competitive. Part of this model's price premium over an Audi Q5 can be ascribed to the use of aluminium body panels which pare 40kg from the car's kerb weight. The PDK auto gearbox has been optimised for economy at cruising speeds, with a coasting function that decouples the engine and gearbox when you lift the throttle on the motorway. There's also of course a start/stop mode to help cut fuel consumption in city traffic. As a result, the fuel economy for the entry-level 2.0-litre turbo Macan is up to 28.0mpg on the WLTP combined cycle and up to 228g/km of WLTP-rated CO2. That's not a bad return for an SUV that will get to 62mph in 6.2 seconds. For the V6 Macan S, the respective WLTP figures are up to 25.4mpg and up to 251g/km. For the GTS, it's up to 25.0mpg and up to 255g/km.
Insurance groupings start at 45E for the base Macan variant, before topping out at group 50 for the GTS model. Oh and if you want to justify purchase of this car to green-minded friends, it's always useful to know that at the end of its life, it'll be 95% recyclable. Buyers get a three year warranty which might seem a little mean in this day and age, but it does include an unlimited mileage clause.
Summary
'Life, intensified'. According to Porsche, this is what this car is all about. It's certainly intensified the whole concept of what an SUV can be. Cars of this kind - even sporting ones - are almost always born out of compromise. They might look the part, but sheer weight and size have to tell somewhere.
Those issues affect a Macan too, but far less significantly than you might ever have imagined was possible with this class of car. If you need five seats, decent luggage space and go-anywhere versatility but secretly still crave that little sportscar or hot hatch you used to love so much, I can't think of anything better to recommend as a day-to-day choice for someone on a premium budget. This is, in summary, the car all its rivals would like to be. The car most buyers in this segment would like to have.
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Would you buy a Porsche Macan?

[@purple-haggis]

Love the quad pipes and sound on these. Had the original Cayenne Turbo S back in '06, would have ruined me in today's petrol prices... Nice review once again @OSV.

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It's a gorgeous sound 🎶 Thanks for watching! Make sure to subscribe if you haven't already - bit.ly/319ZKoT​

[@SpaceLion87]

Amazing car, though I prefer the previous version which had split rear lights. Every time I see this new 'racoon eye mask', it reminds the Pegeout 208 rear.... Positively, for some reason the Macan in red brings me back to the elegance of the Ferrari Scaglietti, especially for the lights and grilled bumper at the front :)

[@OsvUkVehicleSupply]

Thanks for your comment! Interested in getting the new Macan?

[@voziiputuj]

But you still think the rear is good looking at the new one?

[@jamessiart3272]

I pickup my Macan GTS tomorrow. Put my deposit down 12-24-2021. So a little over 7 months. Anxious to find out how it looks in the flesh and how well it drives. This is the wife’s car as my Shelby GT350 is too brutal for her:). Ha ha she always wants me to drive when we are together in a car…I hope it’s a canyon carver like the Shelby.

[@OsvUkVehicleSupply]

How exciting, James! What made you choose this model?

[@katiemavity7189]

You don't need to buy ACC to get the coasting function. PDK offers coasting and engine braking whatever bells and whistles you are speccing.

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Would you consider getting a Porsche Macan?

[@bobbydorsey6722]

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Loving the new Macan, Bobby?

[@joeharris3810]

I have waiting 12 months oh yeah

[@OsvUkVehicleSupply]

Sorry to hear that Joe! Which version did you go with?

[@joeharris3810]

@@OsvUkVehicleSupply macan s papaya a few options tell myself anyone would wait a year for a Porsche interesting dilemma

[@PeterSdrolias]

Ordered the S in January and received it at the end of April. The experience was outstanding. The salesperson was polite, informed and respectful. He also touched base a couple of weeks later to check in. Yes, it is expensive but it is a Porche for crying out loud! Drives better than most cars on the road.

[@bondjamesbond9041]

No you should not. Buying one of these is OK if you are prepared to put up with poor customer service pricey running costs and parts and so so reliability.