2022 Grey PORSCHE MACAN, powered by a V6 2894cc 8 speed automatic; Cars travelling on a cold winter morning after overnight frost. Wintertime low temperatures with December frosts and cold driving conditions on the M61 motorway, UK
Porsche bringing along a sublime example of its awe-inspiring 904 Carrera GTS to park alongside the new-for-2020 Macan GTS at the model’s international media launch last year may have seemed a little incongruous. What, you might wonder, has a dinky little mid-engined sports car from the swinging sixties got to do with a thoroughly modern hunk of high-performance SUV? The badge is the obvious link, but is the marketing connection as tenuous as it might first appear? If any other manufacturer pulled the same stunt, you’d be asking questions, but this is our beloved Porsche, is it not? Porsche Macan Following the 1963 904 Carrera GTS was the 1980 924 Carrera GTS, a lightweight version of the 924 Carrera GT, built in limited numbers. And while Porsche cites the 1992 928 GTS (incidentally, the only flavour of 928 available from launch until the transaxle family of products was discontinued in 1995) as the pioneer of its modern-day GTS recipe, the GTS formula we now know and love was, arguably, first brought to market in 2007, taking the form of the Cayenne GTS. It set the template for where we are today, with more power, a firmer chassis, a louder exhaust and lots of black detailing. The model was such a success, the GTS nameplate went on to find a home as part of the second-generation Cayenne range. And before that, the badge arrived in the 997-generation 911 line-up ahead of the launch of the Panamera GTS in 2011, as well as the Boxster and Cayman GTS in 2014. Finally, in 2015, the Macan joined the GTS party. Using a turbocharged three-litre V6, just as the Macan S did, the Macan GTS came with 20bhp and 30lb-ft torque increases, bringing headline figures up to a juicy 355bhp and 369lb-ft.
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