When making an unusually expensive purchase, there’s always a desire to try and keep the price as low as possible. Irrespective of whether this incentive comes from you or your bank manager, it’s an ever-present, hard-to-resist condition of shelling out a large sum of money. Even when you’re buying a Porsche, the temptation will linger, despite the knowledge it might prove to be a false economy. An intriguingly priced 986, for example, will always be an appealing proposition, but if it ends up costing you a fortune in expensive repairs, you would have been better off spending more of your hard-earned cash on a tidier example of the same Boxster.
If you’re buying a new vehicle, of course, the risks aren’t quite so great, but the fact remains: deciding to buy a car purely on the strength of its sale price might not work out in your best interests. This brings us to the new Macan. Not the popular and powerful S or GTS models, complete with their fabulous V6 engines. No, we’re talking about the basic two-litre Macan. The four-cylinder model. The baby. The cheapest – or least expensive – version of Porsche’s unquestionably brilliant mid-size SUV.
As a Porsche enthusiast, it’s hard not
