There is one reason: PAR is currently treated by Porsche as their top suspension technology and car differentiator, a unique feature giving experience available only in Porsche. This is why it has a price tag of 70k EUR. Base is fighting with more "volume" competitors - it has much more...
In Taycan, in order to keep the SoH parameter higher, it is worth to rebalance the battery. But it was never stated in user manual, it was in technical service bulletin only. As mentioned here, time needed for it is 6,5h in Taycan J1.1 (preface). In Macan and Cayenne BMS is probably faster so...
Base is enough for most markets like UK, Nordic, France. For Germany, Poland and some other Eastern European countries highway is a place you can drive 200 km/h. Autside of Germany it not allowed but possible ;) Coming from Taycan 4S, Base Cayenne is not powerful enough. IMO.
Base is very well...
I have Cayenne S on order. The reason was PAR, which - after some reviews - I'm not sure if it's a must have.
I'm driving 2022 Taycan 4S. Last week I had a Porsche Experience EV + city tour. Base and Turbo. Turbo is damn fast, base is much slower than Taycan 4S.
Even the base Cayenne looks as...