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Old 09-04-2019, 04:42 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Nick M3 View Post
I don’t think that we’ve seen any actual performance specs for the Taycan, so we don’t know. I saw a bunch of estimated performance specs, but no actuals.

Net-net, it’s really expensive and it doesn’t have autopilot, but it looks a million times better and I’d expect it to handle better, be WAY better finished (every Tesla interior that I’ve been in felt low rent), and all that work that Porsche/VW have done making electric steering feel good will presumably also apply.

I guess we’ll find out what it’s like. We don’t know much yet.
Agreed. Also, you don’t seriously expect Porsche to be the value proposition, right?

If anything, they know there is demand for having THE performance EV (even if it isn’t true) and people will pay it.
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