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Exactly!

It would but not enough to rule the car out! I am sure narrower low rolling resistance tyres would help with range but would probably lose a lot of what I like about the car. I have ordered the 21" CT wheels because I like them a lot more than all other Taycan wheels and am still debating on...

I am 72 and have no use whatsoever for a huge car with a vast rear cabin which will be used very infrequently ferrying small grandchidren The Taycan rear is ideal. As a Merc owner for the last 35 years I was interested by the EQE after reading about the EQS but it doesn't have a tailgate and...

Fashion

This is certainly true, though the Taycan is a “real” Porsche and the Cayenne was a Porsche tuned VW Touareg :) I nearly bought a 911 (993) in the 90s but the NA was a bit too slow compared to my TVR and the turbo laggy, so I didn’t. I wouldn’t consider a SUV whether it was Porsche tuned or...

Slightly. When my colleague compared his 5-series estate to an X5 he found the X5 was heavier, used more fuel (big frontal area) and the load area was a less useful shape and access higher. The only thing better was the resale value because the X5 is fashionable. IMO, as a vehicle...

I think that market is different in the US to other 1st world countries (except perhaps Australia). Very few dirt roads or people wanting to use them. Living in a city with a huge, inefficient, expensive "van with comfy seats" makes no sense but it is the current fashion. Back when I was at...

My loathing of SUVs harks beck to my life’s work trying to make cars more aerodynamic and efficient :)

The Taycan is the first Porsche that made it to the top of my short list, both 911 and Panamera have been on the list but not made it to the top. I loathe and detest “SU”Vs which actually rules out a huge number of EVs. I was looking for a quiet comfortable 4 seater with a good turn of speed...

He is English…

I wouldn’t. I prefer the styling of the Aston exterior but you don’t drive the styling…

It isn't rare for a car to be worse for its principle function in order for it to meet some marketing benchmark. Sad, IMO, but not rare!

My guess is that since Porsche certainly could if they wanted they considered it a pointless excercise given the other compromise needed to achieve a benchmark nobody will use in real world situations.

Love the styling of all the Maseratis.

Ionity is a joint venture between VW group and others. They are all over Europe but nowhere near as many as Tesla yet.

Indeed CFD is much closer to accurate than it used to be.

The big influence in simulating the moving ground is that it rotates the wheels. With the wheels not rotating, as is the case with most full sized wind tunnels without simulated road, the flow field is wrong in a way not correctable by a correction factor. The full size Pininfarina tunnel does...

Been doing that since the 1970s in Formula 1 but road car companies either have never done a test to discover the magnitude of the error or have, looked at the costs, and decided not to bother. There is very little aero data for road cars I would be impressed by.

The best thing Tesla did was sort their charging network out early. It must have been a big investment but it is a main reason to buy a Tesla for everybody I know who has one.

Model what?