Ah, Volkswagen, and your love of diesels, we see you there! You might not have been literally sitting on the shoulder of Porsche Chairman Matthias Müller as he unveiled the company’s plans the other week inside the Leipzig factory, but we detected your presence nonetheless.
We are speaking, of course, about the official press introduction event for the Macan, and Volkswagen’s love of bringing diesel cars to the U.S. The introduction of the Macan. And Volkswagens’s love of diesel. Macan. Diesel. Yes.
Look, we adore the brand with a purity so intense that when we first saw Lord of the Rings in 2001 and Sauron’s mad quest for the one ring, we turned off the DVD player and said, “Sauron, you don’t know a thing about love.”
So we know that we will get through this. We’ll shut our eyes to the questions and doubts and concerns because you know what? When the Macan was first announced we heard plenty (and still hear quite a lot, we might add) of hand-wringing about how this is the end times, and the Seth Rogen movie was right, and how it’s not a true Porsche, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Now, of course, the articles are flooding in about how the Macan is a phenomenal car, and what’s more, something even greater than that: a true Porsche. The engineers at Stuttgart have an ability to create vehicles that abide in the Porsche DNA, and only create those vehicles, which is why the company only makes six outstanding models.
Yes some market-broadening changes are coming to the Macan. There will be a diesel and plug-in hybrid version in the U.S. and even possibly a four-cylinder version—hands away from your noses, gentlemen! There’s no need for that!—for compliance reasons in China.
However, even Rolls-Royce is looking into PHEV technology these days and has promised to announce a plug-in model within two years. As the insanely impressive 918 Hybrid Spyder has proven—remember that video?—environmentalism need not be the enemy of performance, as paradoxical as that sounds.
So wait, and see, and prepare yourselves mentally. And read the write-ups about the Macan S and Turbo. You’ll be fine.
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