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More EV Coverage, Please retirement, but things change. Please
I just received my November issue of send along my gratitude for getting me
MotorTrend and read with interest your through my difficult hours.
review of the Porsche Taycan Turbo Henry H. Hertzsch, Jr.
and Turbo S. Let me begin by saying I Reader on location Springville, Utah
have owned four Porsches and two Tesla All the best to you, Henry. No matter how
This month’s readers on location are
Model S’s. My current car is a 2017 Tesla you consume MotorTrend, thanks for
Jim and Casper Revett, of Palm Bay,
Model S P100D—by leagues the best being a part of the family.—Ed.
Florida. Jim says that Casper, his
vehicle I have owned out of 46 other cars 35-year-old female greater sulphur-
in my 74 years, including 11 Mercedes, crested cockatoo, is a big MotorTrend I have been reading MT since that first
nine BMWs, and four Porsches. fan, perching on his shoulder every issue back in 1949 when I was three
I would not think to quarrel with your time he picks up an issue. “I know she months shy of my 12th birthday. My dad,
would be excited to see her picture
praise of the Taycan, but you might as Paul, and his brother, my uncle Joe, were
in a magazine!” he said. Thanks for
well be comparing a Tesla Model S to a dedicated car buffs and instilled in me the
reading, guys!
Nissan Leaf. The Taycan Turbo (with a love of all things automotive.
few goodies) is a $180,000 vehicle. The Dad brought the first MotorTrend
Taycan doesn’t have the range of the From the MT Family home and started me on the road of MT
Tesla Model S, nor does it have Autopilot, I recently had a seven-day stay in the readership that has endured to this day.
nor will it “refresh” itself as the Tesla hospital for cancer. For most of the first My whole life, I have subscribed to or
does with its frequent downloads. How three days, I could not sleep. On July 30 purchased MT except for the two years in
can you say it’s a competitive vehicle? and 31, I was able to watch MotorTrend the late ’60s when I was a U.S. Air Force
No doubt the Porsche handles better all day and night, where fabricators C-130 pilot based in Southeast Asia.
and looks better than the Tesla, but your restore old cars. Those creative individ- Thanks, MotorTrend, for creating a life-
review isn’t an apples-to-apples compar- uals were great to learn from and keep my time of automotive reading enjoyment.
ison. I will be eager to read your review of mind off my discomfort. Congratulations on achieving 70 years of
the vanilla version of the Taycan and see I have many projects at home that publishing Mr. Petersen’s vision.
how that stacks up against the Model S. I was planning to take care of in my C. Darrell Franklin Mesa, Arizona
Don’t you find it interesting that the
Model S came to market in 2012, and nine
model years later no manufacturer has
yet to challenge it? Hooray for Porsche. Trust ..V1 earns it one ambush at a time.
.
Glen Sondag
New York, New York
You make a great point about range—try
as they might, many manufacturers are
still struggling to match Tesla.—Ed.
Glenna R.,
The time is now for MotorTrend to write Dallas, TX
exclusively about EVs. When reviewing
an all-electric vehicle, there’s some
commonality with their gas counterparts,
but when it comes to motors, transmis- Love the arrows! Where’s
sions, batteries, and charging, everything “
is totally different. I’d love to know how the radar? They tell me Ahead
often a battery would need to be charged
in the real world and which EVs are sold every time. A detector
in all 50 states. I would like to be one of
the first to get a five-year subscription to without the arrows is like Beside
the new MotorTrend-E magazine.
Doug Moore a car without headlights. ”
Sun City Center, Florida
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