Sidney:
RC:
... trust me, the gadget puppy love feeling will fade fast...
Drive i8 for nearly 3 years now ... and i3s for nearly 1 year ... same feeling as on day 1
Same bad feeling? Drove the i8 for a couple of hours, was worse than Tesla S P100D.
Drove the i3 for three days (BMW promo), hated it so badly that I refused to drive it anymore (my wife tried it as well and came back pretty disappointed, so the car basically spent two days in our garage instead of being driven).
No offense but these are exactly the cars I would never ever buy or even drive.
.. and only because of Porsche doesn't sell a 960 it is pitty that you don't want to be part of the future
Oh well, I never wanted to be part of anything, I am my own part of...me. Also, took care of my 960 issue, got myself a Huracan Performante, one (in my opinion) of the most underrated sports cars on this planet (together with it's standard Huracan brother R8, which is a total bargain in Germany).
Part of the future? I was always ahead of most people I know when it came to technology. I always bought and got myself the latest stuff, no matter how useless it was. EVs don't excite me at all, can't help it. I have the latest in computer/smartphone/etc. tech (iPhone 11 Pro Max, Samsung Galaxy Fold 5G, Asus Mothership laptop, Sony A7RIV camera, iPad 11 Pro 1TB, etc.) but when it comes to cars, I prefer modern cars combined with old school engines.
EVs may be the future but so was Aldi, H&M and smoking pot. I don't buy at Aldi, I do not wear H&M clothes and I do not smoke pot. Kidding aside, I will eventually get an EV for my business at some point, to commute from A to B and to save money. I am pretty sure I will hate it as much as I hated that Smart I got (biggest car mistake in my life) for my business but I want to save some money because at some point, I am going to retire and the Lambo won't be cheap to maintain.
p.s.: ... at least as a co-driver there was no feeling that car is too heavy .. sliding in corners is pretty easy ... and all tests so far confirm that car feels not heavier than a 992 .... thanks to low center of gravity .. Taycan is miles away from Mercedes S class .... but of course no Caterham
Everything in the Taycan is artificial, including chassis, steering and drive feel. I remember how much I loved the first Panamera Turbo I test-drove, I loved it so much that I ordered one. To my regret, that fun faded fast as well because I realized after a couple of weeks how artificial the whole car was, it was like driving a computer. The car reacted spontaneously and very sporty but it felt like driving by wire, it is difficult to explain. Porsche improved this a lot with the current Panamera generation but you can still feel the weight if you ignore the synthetic drive feel (which isn't actually as bad as it sounds).
The Taycan may be the sportiest EV of all but it is still an EV. No sound, no emotions. If I want to drive a computer, I enjoy my driving games very much.
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Lamborghini Huracan Performante (2019), Mercedes E63 S AMG Edition 1 (2018), Mercedes C63 S AMG Cab (2019), Range Rover Evoque Si4 Black Edition (2019)