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Porsche's electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis

The reviewer's test car cost $149,610 against a $112,700 starting price, and its navigation kept sending him to the slower charger; the badge is also technically wrong.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPorsche's electric Macan Turbo is a two-row crossover with 630 horsepower and a 100-kilowatt-hour battery, TechCrunch reports in a review titled an automotive existential crisis.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI love a car that questions itself. That's a vehicle on a journey of self-discovery.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe reviewer's test car cost $149,610 with destination fees. The starting price is $112,700.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThirty-seven grand in customization options.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThirty-seven thousand dollars of personalized.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne option is a $1,710 passenger display, and the reviewer's wife pointed out the family washing machine can also play YouTube videos.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe washing machine is a competitor!

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThen there's the name. The reviewer says friends complained about the Turbo badge, because an electric car technically cannot have a turbo.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich makes it a heritage name, not a mistake.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe navigation also sent him to a slow fifty-kilowatt charger, then a fast three-hundred-fifty-kilowatt one across the street, and kept saying go to the slow one after he parked at the fast one.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe washing machine plays YouTube too, and nobody calls it a Turbo.

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