khabah
Precision Tuner
I don't think this interior is terrible, but it's certainly lazy; slathering the space with piano black surfaces and screens comes off as a pastiche of what living in the 2020s is. I'm not a fan of prodding at a smooth glass sheet to control vital functions like A/C, vehicle performance and seat functions, and very much prefer the old cockpit-style layout of the first-gen Panamera and Macan.
The hardest hitter for me, however, is the visible cost-cutting: Autogefühl's video showed how the door pockets are now hard plastic, for instance. I remember my 2012 Cayenne S having a padded inside that kept rattles to a minimum, and even my 2018 Macan has decent insulation. For the new Macan and Cayenne to move to hard, unpadded plastic and swap out touchpoints like leather pockets on the seat backs to nets that will inevitably warp and loosen/dangle with time is egregious - especially in the face of the astronomical costs these models are now demanding.
I'm reserving final judgment of the exterior until its fully unveiled, but so far, I'm disliking the long, fat, heavy, blobby proportions of it. Then again, I found the first-gen Cayenne [more so the facelift] and the second generation very handsome, and continue to respect those designs.
We know these companies are after the pursuit of the bottom line, but it's sad to see Porsche go from being a halo company with conscious thought and intentionality crafted in its products to essentially becoming a performance-branded arm of VAG.
khabah
The hardest hitter for me, however, is the visible cost-cutting: Autogefühl's video showed how the door pockets are now hard plastic, for instance. I remember my 2012 Cayenne S having a padded inside that kept rattles to a minimum, and even my 2018 Macan has decent insulation. For the new Macan and Cayenne to move to hard, unpadded plastic and swap out touchpoints like leather pockets on the seat backs to nets that will inevitably warp and loosen/dangle with time is egregious - especially in the face of the astronomical costs these models are now demanding.
I'm reserving final judgment of the exterior until its fully unveiled, but so far, I'm disliking the long, fat, heavy, blobby proportions of it. Then again, I found the first-gen Cayenne [more so the facelift] and the second generation very handsome, and continue to respect those designs.
We know these companies are after the pursuit of the bottom line, but it's sad to see Porsche go from being a halo company with conscious thought and intentionality crafted in its products to essentially becoming a performance-branded arm of VAG.
khabah
