ILLYA VERPRAET
Testing, testing
Effects of upgrading from basic to Mare clear and desirable when petrol is involved
Flick through some of our recent road test results (from p67) and you will notice that we’ve just given 4.5 stars to a sensible electric supermini but awarded the supposedly exciting Porsche Macan Turbo Electric and Maserati Granturismo Folgore only 3.5 stars. Has Autocar lost its sense of fun in old age? Or are all EVs just boring?
Well, neither, I hope. What it demonstrates is that car makers need to fundamentally rethink the way they approach designing their rangetopping performance models.