Porsche Macan review

Well, that depends on when you’re reading this. The Macan 4 starts at £69,800 and the Turbo sits at bang on £95k. However an entry-level car - with no name, so it’s just called ‘Macan’ - is coming with rear-wheel drive only for £67,200. A Macan 4S will sit between the 4 and Turbo, priced from £75,400. So watch out for those. Might a GTS be on its way too?

If you’re buying for the ability to do bad things with physics, you really need the Turbo. If you’re looking for a sorted, fast family wagon, then the 4 is really the more sensible choice. And that’s a 26 grand saving. Which buys you a lot of options.

Speaking of, what are the options?

Many. And not all worth it. You can have wheels from 18in to 22in, different ‘colours’ of sideblade (from three, all versions of, um... black), an optional head-up display, optional rear-wheel steering, paint to sample, interior options varied enough to have you reaching for the paracetamol.

There’s far too many to go into here, so the best idea is to hit the Porsche configurator and see how expensive you can get. And you will get expensive. 

What’s the lease situation?

Well, BCH reckon that a Turbo will be roughly £1,200 a month on the usual kind of lease, the 4 significantly less. Benefit-in-kind stands at two per cent for ‘24/25, rising to three per cent in ‘25/26, so that’s not insignificant.

It will be cheapish to run if you have home charging. But beware filling up completely on a public rapid charger; that’s a big battery to fill and some of those per-kilowatt-hour rates are as eye-watering as Porsche’s options list.