Power Wheels Magazine A Notch Above
In anticipation if its 70th anniversary, Porsche Philippines takes everyone for a sporty driving experience at the Prosche Centre Philippines showroom with the Porsche Festival. Clients and guests are given the opportunity to have a closer look at Porsche’s current model line-up and take them for a test drive.
Highlighted in the Porsche Festival is the new Macan Sport. A compact SUV that truly embodies the full heritage of Porsche, it bears five doors, five seats, all-wheel drive and a higher sitting position. The Macan Sport was built in keeping with the Porsche Philosophy – where sporty style and performance are injected into everyday driving.
Highly recognizable by its distinctive sporty appearance, the Macan Sport offers a myriad of standard features designed to give immersive Porsche experiences to not only the driver, but the passengers as well.
This ever-reliable compact SUV brings a high level of sporty performance with newly-added adaptive air suspension with the Porsche Active Suspension Management. This setup provides for a high level of comfort and tremendous dynamic performance that can take on all-road conditions. The self-levelling function also helps to keep the ride height constant. The Macan Sport rolls on impressive 20-inch RS Spyder design rims, providing an outstanding look that is instantly recognizable. Fulfilling the requirements of a sports car, it follows the Porsche principle of active safety. Integrated in this compact SUV is the Porsche Stability Management (PSM) that helps ensure stability at the limits of sporty performance. The brakes set standards for deceleration.
The interior also integrates both drivers and passengers into the vehicle, exemplified by three-dimensional arrangement of the controls and the ascending center console with control buttons for the most important comfort functions. The multi-function sports steering wheel with 918 Spyder design also provides the ideal hands-on experience, which, with an unladen weight of 1,770 kilograms, makes the Macan, the lightest SUV made by Porsche, into an SUV with into agile handling.
The turbocharged two-litre engine in the Macan delivers 252 hp from 5,000 to 6,800 rpm and comes standard with a seven-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission. As a result, the Macan delivers impressive acceleration, reaching 100 km/h in 6.7 seconds and running at a top speed of 229 km/h. In terms of fuel consumption, the Macan proves to be very efficient: Depending on the mounted wheel and tire combination, the Macan consumes 13.9 km/l according to the NEDC.
Built for a thrilling lifestyle, the new Macan Sport offers a more intensified Porsche driving experience. With this model, Porsche is once more underlining its claim that the Macan is the sports car among compact SUVs.