Well, goodbye to all that. There’s a certain world-weariness that emerges in the cavernous reaches of winter in Raleigh. We like sweet tea. We like humidity. We like mint. Snow falls, and ice drops. Sleet rains and rain stings. These are alien notions to Southern democracy—neither what we stand for, nor what we’ll stand for—if we had our druthers. Be that as it may, winter appears every single year, and demands that we have vehicles equipped for it.
We’ve been banging the freezing drum for winter tires for several months now, hoping that as people in front-wheel drive vehicles derisively pass the luxury brands with rear-wheel drive, our hallowed badge will not be numbered among them. The Porsche that reclines in a ditch is a Porsche neither properly driven, nor properly outfitted, and if we have one goal today it is to present videographic evidence that not a single Porsche model should be found in the doubter’s camp, not even the newest and most recently presented, the Macan.
Fortunately, the company Youtube account has released a video attesting to the wintry conditions that the Macan has been proven under. It is our hope that when subjected to the most strenuous of conditions at temperatures consistently below 30 degree Celsius, not that we would find a vehicle with no flaws. But rather that we would find those flaws burst open in all their hitherto concealed abandonment, and thereby ready a vehicle that can handle such things as Banff, Detroit, Vostok, International Falls, Fraser, Barrow or even Raleigh.
And truly, as you see the beautiful basalt black metallic exteriors of the Macan held under the steel-tearing grip of the polar circle, you’ll wonder what in the blazes these engineers are doing. Can any good come out of the winter? You’ll see.
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