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Porsche Macan GTS

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Writer:

Andrew Frankel | Ti co-founder

Date:

31 August 2021

The Porsche Macan is fast turning into the 911 of the SUV world. Seven years after it made its debut, were this any normal car now would be the time for it to be replaced by an all-new model. But the Macan is not normal.

Because the platform upon which it sits is older, far older, even than that. Indeed it dates back to the Audi Q5 that was introduced in 2008. You’d think the car in desperate need of replacement.

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