2024 Porsche Macan Turbo review

In one way there were few cars more remarkable in recent years than the original Porsche Macan, a car already no longer on sale in Europe but still available in the UK and elsewhere for at least the short to medium term. Even when brand new in 2014, the Macan sat on an already six-year-old platform shared with an Audi Q5 that would have topped few wish lists. And yet it became instantly the best car in its class, and soon overtook the Cayenne as the best-selling Porsche.

The two SUVs have battled over that title ever since, but while the Cayenne has been completely renewed in that time, the Macan has merely evolved and beneath the skin is much the same car as it was a decade ago. And yet it remains the best sporting SUV of them all, as much the driver’s benchmark in its category as is the 911 among sports cars.

No pressure, then, on this, the first genuinely all-new Macan in all those years. And those who read our Macan 4 review, penned in usual masterly form by Andrew English from the international launch in southern Spain back in April will not have failed to notice one rather significant thing about it. It’s electric.