Cancelled Porsche Maon Turbo Order: Reasons and Alternatives

Canceling the Maon Turbo order due to lack of experience and excitement, considering alternatives like the Polestar 3 and Audi rron GT.

### Canceling My Porsche Macan Turbo Order: Exploring Alternatives
* 🚗 After configuring a custom Porsche Macan Turbo and not being able to see, touch, or test drive the car before delivery, I decided to **cancel my order** for a car priced at **€113,000**.
* 💸 The entry-level nature of the Macan lineup and the popularity of the model made it difficult for me to justify the **high cost**.
* 🔋 Owning a Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo, which I consider the **best electric Porsche available**, further reduced the urgency to purchase the Macan.
* 🏞 Despite the Macan EV having a larger battery pack, I believe the Taycan offers a **superior driving experience and overall quality**.
* 🚀 The upcoming facelifted Audi e-tron GT, featuring a **larger battery and more efficient electric motor**, is another **compelling alternative** in a similar price range.
* 🇸🇪 The Hyundai Ioniq 5, which I found to be a **unique and special electric car**, is also being considered as a **more affordable and exciting option**.
* 🌟 The Polestar 3, with its **luxurious design, sporty performance, and strong viewer interest potential**, is a new electric car that I'm particularly excited about.
* 📹 Given the importance of creating content for the channel and the strong audience response to Polestar and Volvo content, featuring the **Polestar 3** could be a **strategic choice**.

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sitting on this order for a few months. I've decided to actually cancel my order of my Macon turbo electric. So why did I cancel my order after only sitting on it for a few months? Well, there are quite a few reasons, not only one reason for doing this, and the main reason is that I haven't seen the car, I haven't driven the car, and the car I SP ECT. The Maon turbo was a little bit custom, a little bit, you know, to my taste because when I wanted to order a car at this caliber, I wanted to make it, you know, a little bit special. So I was sure that I would enjoy it as much as possible. So the car I expect, I mean, nothing crazy, but still €1 135,000 is a lot of money spending on a car you haven't even seen. And I'm pretty sure the car is going to be awesome. It's but going to be great. But, you know, I want to see the car, at least, you know, touch and feel it, and you know

preferably test drive it before spending this much money on the car, and I was hoping, you know, in between me ordering the car, I was going to be able to go to the Press Drive, the launch which was in NIS in March. And I reached out, you know, to Porsche Norway, and I didn't get any answer, and I'm like, Oh, that's fine, that's fine. I know the car's coming to Norway, it's going to go on its tour around dealers, and there's going to be like a showing in downtown also. And usually at these, you know, after the cars come to Norway, there's like this press showing, and then later in the day, it's for, you know, customers. This is completely normal. I've, you know, been to this a bunch of times. Like last week, I meant to went to, you know, the electric G Wagon. In the morning, there's like the Press launch, press launch, and then later on in the evening or in the day, there, you know, the cars available for customers, a private showing.

asked for like is there a press launch? Can I film the car in private, you know, to make content? At least take a look at the car. And I didn't get any answer. Of course, I could have gone to, you know, the dealer, the dealer showing, or the private showing for customers, but that was an evening. I didn't have time. And also there's going to be a lot of people there. So after, you know, sitting on my order and not being able to see the car or test drive the car and a lot of other cars coming to market and I've driven a lot of other cars in the meantime. I'm like, okay, let me just, you know, ask if I can at least, you know, just delay my order or if they want me to cancel it. Then they're like, no, we'll just cancel your order. So I've now officially cancelled my Porsche maon Turbo order. But, you know, I can order one at a later point if I drive the car and I, you know, think it is awesome.

it is great, but maybe it's not. I don't know yet, and I don't want to spend that much money before I'm sure about a car because there's a lot. The lead time to the order is a few months, and then the actual when you get the allocation, you're not going to get a car before early next year. So I'm like, oh, I have a lot of time now. I don't have to rush it. And then there is another thing, though. I was initially very excited about the car. After sitting on the order and thinking about, you know, spending €113,000 on what is basically the entry-level product into the Porsche lineup. I know the maon turbo isn't, but the maon is the entry-level to the Porsche brand. And I'm like, spending that much money on that product never really sat correctly with me. And it's going to be a popular car. It's just going to be another SUV, though a really nice and fast, well-driving SUV with a Porsche badge.

nonetheless, going to be an entry-level Porsche, and spending that much money on the car, yeah, that's a hard pill to swallow for me. And then we have maybe the most important reason I can sold my electric Macon order, and that is the fact that I actually own a Porsche tyon cross rismo. So I already have, you know, possibly the best electric Porsche that has ever been built. And yes, it is a little bit of yellow and white, and that is because I was in a little bit of a fender bender, uh, days before Christmas. Somebody hit me on the side here, so I got scratches on the front door, front fender, and the front bumper, and they also broke the brackets, uh, for the lighting, light housing. So I had to wait for that for like 4 months. So I was out without this car for like 4 months. And in the meantime, you know, they launched the new electric maon, and I'm like, oh, I'm missing my car, maybe I'll just order you.

know the new Macon electric. And you know while I'm waiting for this, I wasn't going to get that delivered. In the meantime, but I'm like I'm missing my Porsche. Let me go out and order the new Macon electric. And then I got this car back after like 4 months. And I've been driving it very, very little since because I got the car back about a month ago. And then I've had a whole bunch of, you know, press cars on loan and um, yeah, now I finally have time to spend in this car. And my God, what a car it is. I mean, I've been driving a lot of different electric cars lately. But every time I get back into this car, I'm like, yeah, this is, you know, the best electric car for me at the moment. I mean, I think it looks better than the Macon on the outside. And it also sits higher up in the lineup. And when I bought this car, it was before we had any, you know, V8 on.

electric cars in Norway. And this, of course, is, you know, the pre-facelift model, so it doesn't have as big of a battery as the new Tyon or even the new Maon electric. But in all of my range tests and efficiency tests, this does a lot better than the WLTP claims it can do or the EPA claims it can do. And though the new Maon electric has a bigger battery pack, it's about, you know, 12 kilowatt hours more usable because that is a higher slung SUV. I don't think it's actually going to have more range in the real world. And either way, range hasn't been the reason why, you know, I've been wanting to change or get something new. I wanted a new experience, and this is such a nice experience. This car, I mean, the cabin is lined in leather everywhere, the build quality, the driving experience, the low sitting seating position. You know, I'm pretty sure that this is going to be a nicer driving experience even than the new Maon E. But again, if I drive that and

I'm like, Oh, that's better. Then, I'm going to change my mind. But, you know, if you look at a similar spec Maon Electric and the new upgraded Tyon, the Tyon is a lot more expensive and it does make a lot of sense. Porsche is going to make, you know, a car that's bigger on the inside, you know, more cabin room, and it's going to be better to drive at a lower price point. Yeah, I still think that Tyon is going to be the king of electric Porsches. I'm back in my Tyon and I'm loving the experience. And from all the videos and photos I've seen, like the interior in the Macon, isn't as nice as this either. This has leather, more places, higher quality switchgear. It's just an overall nicer experience. And I'm like, Why would I sell this and then spend more money, even though I'm getting a faster car? Yeah, that does make a lot of sense in my mind, at least. Oh, and by the way, guys, the reason my car is

now white and yellow is because it's originally white, and it is wrapped yellow, and where they've, you know, repainted, um, the body panels, the paint has to cure for like, uh, 8 weeks or something like that, so hopefully in like 3 weeks or four weeks, I'm going to get it wrapped again so the whole car is yellow again. I've been driving a lot, lot of awesome electric cars lately, so right after I ordered my maon Turbo, I had an rson GT on loan, and you guys who have been following the channel for a while now know that I owned an rron GT back in, uh, 2021 in the fall of 2021 after I completely fell in love with that car after having a few press cars on loan, and I can go out and buy an almost brand new, like, you know, pre-owned with low miles, a lot of equipment now for about a million Norwegian croners, or about. This guy just pulled up in front of me. I scared the heck out of me, but I can get

you know, a really nicely equipped one for around like 95-90,000. And that is a car I'm much more excited about than a maon turbo, to be completely honest. And talking about the Audi rron GT, which is one of my absolute favorite cars, period. I mean, I love the way that looks, I love the way it drives, it's just a special car. It's getting a facelift this summer or in the early fall, and it's going to get all the upgrades that the facelifted tyon has gotten. So, bigger battery pack, more efficient electric motor. So again, that's going to be about the same money as a spec out Macon 4 or a spec out maccon turbo. For those versions, it's also going to be faster than the pre-facelifted version. So, I'm pretty excited about that. Maybe that's the car I want to get. And talking about facelift, you also have the facelifted tyon. Yes, it has gotten a lot more expensive, especially here in Norway.

where we now have, you know, V8 on the above, you know, the amount above 50,000. When I bought this car, as I said, there was no V, so this was like, uh, 1.2 million kroners. I paid for this car, so about $10,000. The, you know, upgraded, uh, facelifted, uh, Taycan Cross Turismo. Now with, you know, VAT on that amount is about, I know, 300,000 kroners more, 350,000 kroners more. So about 25 to 30,000 more. It's a lot more expensive, but also been considering getting maybe a Taycan rear-wheel drive version with the big battery because that's going to get almost 700 km of WLTP rated range. And also the, you know, performance is even faster than this. It's 4.8 seconds from 0 to 100 km an hour. So there are a lot of options here. And then we have other cars like the awesome and spectacular Hyundai Ioniq 5 that I had on.

loan a few weeks ago, which I completely fell in love with. Such an awesome and raw experience. I mean, I don't need an electric SUV. I don't. I don't need the space. I don't need the practicality. And I'm driving so many different electric cars from week to week. Getting into my own car, I wanted to feel a little bit special. And that's what this car has, you know, giving me this Tyon 4 Cross Rismo. But that Hyundai Ioniq 5 is even more special. So I'm trying to get one on loan to do a European road trip, to really live with the car, to see if that's something, you know, I want to go to that extreme. But that is also a car that's a lot cheaper than anything else there offers, you know, pretty much top performance. And it's such a special experience. So go watch my videos on that. It's such an awesome car. And then lastly, we have a car I've driven recently, a car I really really

like a car I've been excited about for a very long time, and that is the Polestar 3. So I just dropped a few videos on that car here on the channel, go check that out. It did amazing in my range test, and also I loved it in my review. It's such an awesome electric car, and yeah, it's not as exciting as the Hyundai Ioniq 5, but it is closer to this in experience. It is a really, really pleasantly driving electric car. It's a luxurious electric car that looks sporty on the outside and has a sporty edge to it. Really nice steering, arguably even nicer steering than in this. An awesome sound system from Bowers & Wilkins, a really high-quality interior. It is something new and fresh, and it is a car that you know is going to get a lot of views here on the channel. My Polestar content usually gets a lot of views, Volvo content usually gets a lot of views, so I have to think about views also here because at the end of the day

it's all fun and giggles, you know, doing and making all of these YouTube videos. But it is a job, like providing content, and doing all of my testing, and being, you know, a sort of automotive journalist here on YouTube. So I have to think about the content also, and if you know that car could basically pay itself, it's a no-brainer. I'm really excited about the Polestar 3, so I'm trying to get one on loan in hopefully July to do my proper testing and also to do a European road trip. Also, a lot of cool content, a lot of cool videos coming here on the channel in the future. I have the Audi Q6 e-tron test drive or press drive in Spain next week. Yeah, a lot of cool interesting content. And yeah, there's so many new electric cars that get me more excited, a lot more excited than that Maon EV. But let's see, once I drive one, maybe I'll change my mind. So guys

let me know of all of these cars which would you choose, and which car do you want me to buy to feature here on the channel mccan new facelifted rron GT facelifted you know tyon maybe the postar 3 highend ionic 5n maybe there's something else that you guys want me to feature let me know in the comment section down below. so guys, that was the reason I canceled the order on my maon Turbo. so yeah, I hope you enjoyed today's video. if you did, please drop me a thumbs up down below. and for more car content, as always, please subscribe. see you guys ler goodbye.

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Canceling My Order for the Porsche Macon Turbo: Reasons and Regrets

The YouTuber cancels their order for the Porsche Macon Turbo after waiting for a few months due to not having seen or driven the car, despite its custom configuration and high price.

They express disappointment in not being able to attend the car's press drive or get a response from Porsche Norway, leading to regret over spending a large sum of money without experiencing the car firsthand.

The customer canceled their Porsche Maon Turbo order after not being able to see or test drive the car.

They felt hesitant about spending a large amount of money on an entry-level Porsche without being sure about it.

Additionally, the customer already owns a Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo, which influenced their decision to cancel the Maon Turbo order.

Review of the Porsche Taycan Electric Car

The Porsche Taycan Electric Car is preferred over the new Macon Electric due to its driving experience and interior quality.

Despite the Macon Electric having a bigger battery pack, the Taycan is expected to have a similar real-world range.

The Taycan is considered to offer a better driving experience at a lower price point compared to the Macon Electric.

The speaker is considering re-wrapping their car in yellow after the paint has cured, and they are more excited about the Audi e-tron GT than the Macon Turbo.

They are also interested in the facelifted Taycan and the possibility of getting a Taycan rear-wheel drive version.

The speaker is exploring various car options, including the Hyundai Ioniq 5.

The Tyon 4 Cross Rismo provided a special and unique driving experience, while the Hyundai Ioniq 5 offered a special and affordable option for a European road trip.

The Polestar 3, on the other hand, presented a luxurious and sporty electric car with high-quality interior and a focus on attracting views for the channel.

Exciting Plans for Future Car Content on YouTube

The YouTuber is planning to test the Polestar 3 and take a European road trip in July.

There are also upcoming test drives of the Audi Q6 e-tron in Spain.

The YouTuber is seeking input from viewers on which cars to feature on the channel, expressing more excitement for new electric cars compared to the Maon EV.