SciFrog:

Here we go (again).

The X is the opposite of a minivan. A minivan is cheap, slow, drives horribly, uncool, boxy, has a short front, no AWD, a horrible interior, no tech, not luxury and has sliding doors. The X has NONE of these characteristics. The only thing in common is that they are both very practical smiley

The Cayenne TTS is a fantastic daily driver, so is the Macan turbo. But the Macan is now ugly and is long in the tooth, a Cayenne TTS nicely optioned is $170k, depreciates like nothing else especially if you put miles on it, and eats brakes and tires like no tomorrow. My last CTTS cost me $90k over 5 years in depreciation on top of over $25k at Porsche dealer in service for 40,000 miles of mostly highway. And in the end the sunroof still rattled after 5 visits to fix it.

The Panamera is also a fantastic daily driver. But it is even more expensive and is too small to be used as a family car or to carry stuffs back and forth during the week, so it becomes a very one dimensional vehicle. It would make more sense if it was convertible though, or just to get a 911 GTS convertible as they are getting more practical.

Being able to use a 911 as a daily driver is awesome. But very few can swing it, between traffic, weather, low seating and the small size, not easy.

 

Hmm that's YOUR definition. FYI the Toyota Sienna has AWD. The Toyota Alphard is one of the most luxurious minivan in Asia. Some of the Mercedes V-class are also quite expensive in their configurations and luxurious inside. The Honda minivan vans pioneered many interior technology and innovations also. 

To most people in the world, a minivan is a 3 row people mover with a high roof and flat floor, the rear 2 rows can be configurable. A sliding door is not a necessity, some of the Japanese home market ones have conventional doors.

As it happens. the words in bold clearly described a Model X. A lot of parents at my sons' school had traded in their minivans for a Model X, so that fits another typical characteristic of a minivan, soccer mom's people mover, but a more expensive version of a minivan.

Elon maybe trying to call it a SUV, and some of the fans also tried to label it as such. But it is far from a SUV with that low of a ground clearance. IT's more like a SUV wanna be and at best a crossover/minivan. One look at any of the SUVs on the market as compared to a Model X and one will noticed there will be nothing similar between them.

 


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