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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.
Watch it as it aired: Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock on this story, from BBN Tonight at 10:43 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are TechCrunch's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by TechCrunch: “Porsche’s electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis”.
- Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 10:43 PM ET on BBN Tonight, by Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock.
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What BBN said about it

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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