https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eQz4aQjtY0&feature=youtu.be
Maybe not too surprising on this one. I hear the range on these are not great especially if you drive them spiritedly. And given it’s a first gen product on a new tech, no one really knows what these will be worth 5 - 10 years from now.
Cheapest ones are currently £50k. These were running 100+ when new. Turbo Ss were selling for overs on the used market till about a year ago. Now you can get one that retailed at £150k+ for about £80k.
It makes sense, because Taycans have very little value past the second owner.
The first owner buys a Taycan over a competitor because it has Porsche luxury and quality, has great looks, and maybe for its driving performance.
But the third owner? They’d be more price sensitive, care about range more, care about interior space more, care about supercharger locations more, etc. When the alternative to a Taycan is a $40k ish Model 3 Performance or some Model S Plaid (or other Model S)…
If you have $50-$70k burning a hole in your pocket and want to buy an EV- unless you REALLY hate Elon Musk/Tesla- the Taycan is a really hard car to justify purchasing. You’d need to really value how the Taycan looks, really value the driving experience, not care about range/charging difficulties, etc.
What if you had up to $190k ? I know nothing about cars lol.
I was planning to buy a Taycan in 2024 as love the style and luxuriousness of the Taycan. Now there’s no point in buying new and second hand I guess I could buy better for more money.
Taycan’s still the only EV like that. Your “alternatives” are the BMW i7 and EQS, which are both super ugly. And the Model S, but that’s a step down in luxury.
That said, unless you want to customize it with super rare options, there’s not much point in buying a Taycan new. Just buy a $100k CPO Taycan Turbo.
Maybe wait 2 years for a Spectre EV to drop from $400k to $200k, that’s a possible alternative.
Can we just take a second to admire that Porsche thinks so little of their customers’ intelligence that they have Turbo badging on an EV?
My PC had a turbo button in the 1990’s , it has been a synonym for fast for a few decades already, get over it.
“Turbo” has been a synonym for ‘fast’ for quite awhile, especially in the tech-space. The CPU in my laptop has a turbo-boost mode that increases clockspeeds.
“Turbo” in Porsche-speak just means it’s the really fast version.