POWER & PERFORMANCE

Three successful businesswomen share with us how The PORSCHE Macan – an SUV with the heart of a sports car – lets you enjoy the thrill of the journey while still expressing yourself in your own distinct way

TWO DECADES AGO, race car enthusiasts would have been shocked to see the word Porsche and SUV in the same sentence. Arguably, rear-drive hasn’t been a Porsche standard for a long period, but then the German marque stepped away from its roots with the launch of a luxury Suv-by-design but sports-carby-nature. Both the Cayenne in 2003, and in 2013 its younger and smaller sibling the Macan, introduced the brand to an entirely new customer segment and quickly outsold the legendary automaker’s other pure sports models.

The Macan, dubbed the “sports car of the SUV segment” certainly lives up to its name. Derived from the Indonesian word for “tiger”, it continues to deliver SUV practicality yet stays true to the badge’s performance car heritage and design DNA that is reflected in its core characteristics of suppleness, power, fascination, and dynamics. With the base model powered by an enhanced 2.0-litre turbocharged, four-cylinder engine, there’s still enough sports car trapped in the Macan to keep even the purists happy.