Yeah, I think most of those battery kills is ultimately due to garaging times that are much longer than any car manufacturer designs their cars for (or should design them for) and mistakes by the user. Sure, Porsche makes those mistakes easy to make, but user error in essence.

I repeat this every time the IMS comes up, so I’m contractually obligated to do now, but the truth is that there is an awful lot of hype about the IMS and very little in the way of verifiable fact to back it up. Let’s lay out some basics.

Also never forget THIS PORSCHE. porsche owners do complain online and for some cases VERY good reasons. It’s good that eventually the car was replaced.

Yeah that's not true. My cayenne s is my daily driver. My 996 c4s is my every other day car. My wife drives her panamera everyday.

I wonder if Porsche owners have different expectations. I’m amazed that I can drive mine to the track, absolutely thrash it at 9/10s for a weekend, then drive it home Sunday night with no problems. Knock on wood, but I’ve not once been stranded at the track or had any break downs en route. Maybe my appreciation for…

I’ll second Doug’s 968 suggestion. But then, I’m a bit biased, as I’ve had four of them (cab, coupe, racecar, coupe), and loved each one. I started what became the world’s largest online community of 968 owners nearly 17 years ago. Happy to help in any way I can.

Cayenne’s especially puzzling given the Touareg’s performance.

Totally disagree. Plenty of my friends use their Porsche as a DD and leave the exotics for the weekend. My 991 turbo had 14k miles in the first 12 months, including 6 track days

Hahahahahahahah, your an idiot. Porsche owners are usually pissed when the car is in the shop.

This just isn’t true anymore. Over half the company’s sales are Cayenne and Panamera, and those are daily driven. The numbers still haven’t changed.

I’m not so sure about the 928 — though a GTS would be cool. Have you driven a 968? I always liked those as the ultimate iteration of that body style. But question: why not Boxster/Cayman?

Surely, Ferrari would win.

Heh, that’d be Landrover here in the UK. Examples from the ‘50s and ‘60s are still in regular use on farms. Durability is not the same as reliability...

Can you cite an example? There haven’t been any air cooled 911’s produced for 16 years now. The 911’s of the past 16 years are still pretty reliable.

Can you provide reference for this? I know a great deal of 911 owners, and their cars are rarely in the shop for anything outside of recommended maintenance like oil changes. I don’t remember the last time one of them just broke down.

That kind of completely ignores the secondary market. There are a lot of people who buy used Porsches as daily drivers. There are still a lot of 944s on the road, for example, and I doubt that’s anyone’s second, third, or fourth car.

Mmmmmm....pork-entage....

Yes, very many of them are babied in general, and are only driven in good weather (or at least avoid bad weather and aren’t used in the winter).

It has to be a factor that in general, Porsches are better taken care of than, say, a Corolla.

And this whole column has made me miss my Porsches, as I sit here in the Land Rover service department, waiting for them to finish working on my car.