After a 7-month wait and 2 month port delay, we finally picked up my wife’s 2024 Porsche Macan T!
Technically, I picked up the sport SUV back in October 17, while wife was stationed in Houston for a 3-month work assignment (mid August through mid November). The plan was for us to pick up the car together, but I picked it up earlier and surprised my wife one October weekend.
The buying process started back in mid-March 2023, when we traveled to Texas to close on our new house. Amidst the post-celebration, I snuck out of my wife’s shopping spree and placed an order for her car at the local Porsche dealership. On my subsequent follow-up Texas trip in April, to set up services for our new house, I revisited the Porsche dealership and made some changes to wife’s car. More details can be found in my C8 Corvette post.
Going to a Porsche dealership, working with their sales people (aka brand ambassadors) and financing folks is a whole different level of class. The financing guy did not try to hard sell any add-on warranty or services that is typical and expected of Honda and Toyota dealerships. I did opt in for the wheel protection plan, just in case my wife curbs the Macan T wheels like she did with every single car that she owned. I also decided to prepay for the first year/10,000 mile service to save $500 (the cost of Porsche’s first year maintenance service is $1,495). Yes folks, owning a Porsche is not cheap.
The Macan T was built exactly to the specification as I’ve entered in the Porsche vehicle configurator. It was cool to be able to see the status and location of the Macan T’s build status in semi-real time. It was supposed to be originally delivered in mid-August, perfect time for our anniversary 15 year anniversary, but it ended up being delayed 2 months at the Houston port of entry.
The reason? Some port-installed components were delayed, due to supply chain issues. Porsche didn’t specify which components exactly, but supply chain delay was the reason for the 2 month hold up. And that was perfectly fine, since my wife isn’t planning on taking it to Houston with her.
Besides torque vectoring and sound dampening glass that was removed, the car is pretty loaded. The PASM (Porsche Active Suspension Management) is a neat feature which actively controls the suspension to compensate for bumps on the road, resulting in an ultra smooth ride. In Sports+ mode, the ride lowers by 10mm. This Porsche replaces my wife’s 2012 Toyota Prius c with close to 100,000 miles as her daily driver.
With about 150 miles on the odometer as of this writing, we are ready to take the new Macan T down to south Texas on our first road trip in the Lone Star State! We’ll be driving down to San Marcos for a pitstop before veering through Corpus Christi and into South Padre Island, then making a U-Turn to Fredericksburg before returning to our home in the DFW area.
I did tell our Porsche brand ambassador that I may be back to speak to him about a Porsche 911 GT3 allocation in two years.
On the mean time, we’re going to focus of remodeling our home. Starting with ensuring our home’s foundation is sound and stable before moving forward with our planned projects. If you’re a homeowner in Texas, you’ll know what I am referring to.