The Macan shares a platform with its corporate brother - in - arms, the very successful Audi Q5.
While
the Macan shares the Audi Q5 platform, it has been heavily reworked to achieve Porsche's handling and performance ambitions.
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The Macan shares its basic structure with the Audi Q5, though the Macan's curvy body is longer and has much less cargo space.
Touareg, Cayenne, Bentayga, Cayenne, Urus, share all the main tech developed by Audi with the Q7, while
Macan shares the main tech developed by Audi with the Q5.
Built on VW group's MLB platform,
the Macan shares around a third of its underbody components with the Audi Q5.
At the rollout in LA,
the Macan shared the stage with tennis player and now Porsche brand ambassador Maria Sharapova.
Not exact matches
Like the other models that
share the GTS moniker, the performance of the new
Macan falls somewhere in the middle, right in between the
Macan S and the top - end
Macan Turbo.
The Cayenne /
Macan are tarted up VW products with cookie cutter engines and
shared platforms.
When comparing the 2015 Porsche
Macan vs Porsche Cayenne its clear the two SUVs
share a number of characteristics.
It
shares its platform with the Jaguar F - Pace and will rival other luxury crossovers, like the Porsche
Macan.
The
Macan is Porsche's compact luxury SUV, which
shares the same platform as the Audi Q5.
The
Macan rides on the MLB platform, designed by parent company Volkswagen, and
shared with the Audi Q5.
The
Macan may
share a platform with the Audi Q5, but it feels like a Porsche through and through from the moment you fire it up.
Based on the same underpinnings as the Jaguar F - Pace, the Velar will come with standard all - wheel drive and take aim at other upscale compact crossover models like the Porsche
Macan and, it must be said, the very Jaguar it
shares its dirty bits with.
Although Porsche is quick to play down the engineering links between the
Macan and Q5, you don't have to delve very far to discover they
share the same 110.5 inch wheelbase.
Despite looking like a scaled down version of the Cayenne, the
Macan uses quite a different base; the Cayenne
shares its underpinnings with the Volkswagen Touareg, the
Macan with the Audi Q5.
Sharing a platform with the Audi Q5, the
Macan features the same 110.5 - inch wheelbase.
Most likely, that will be the same 3.0 - liter V - 6 found in the Audi Q5, which
shares a platform with the Porsche
Macan.
The Cayenne
shares its underpinnings with the Volkswagen Touareg, the
Macan with the Audi Q5.
Not every SUV
shares its steering wheel with an $ 845,000 hypercar, but the Porsche
Macan is no normal SUV.
The
Macan is essentially a junior version of the Porsche Cayenne, and it
shares some of its basic structure with the Audi Q5.
There's an extra 20 hp over the
Macan S, with which it
shares a 3.0 L, six - cylinder bi-turbo engine, boosting the total to 360 hp.
However, Audi officials, already smarting from having to
share the Q5 underpinnings with Porsche, are said to be resisting pressure to
share this diesel with the
Macan.
So although the mechanical componentry — including strut front and multi-link rear suspension — is
shared, the
Macan gets unique elasto - kinematics thanks to specific bushes, springs and damping rates.