Yahoo Autos Safety and Driver Assistance
Safety and Driver Assistance Rating:
*Due to lack of NHTSA and IIHS crash testing.
We cannot assign the Macan Turbo a safety rating, as it has not been tested by either of the two crash-testing agencies. Even so, Porsche makes available all of today’s must-have active-safety features. Lane-departure warning is standard, and lane-keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, forward-collision warning, front automated emergency braking, and blind-spot monitoring are all optional for reasonable sums and-interestingly-sold separately.
What’s New for 2018?
Nothing. And the Macan Turbo has still not been crash-tested by NHTSA or IIHS.
2017 Porsche Macan Turbo
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the nonprofit, independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) evaluate vehicles for crashworthiness in the United States. NHTSA assigns cars an overall rating out of five stars. IIHS uses a different set of tests, grades cars on a scale of Good to Poor, and awards the vehicles that perform best across its tests with Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ honors, the latter of which requires that the subject’s automated forward-collision-braking system performs well.
Read more about how NHTSA and the IIHS crash-test cars here.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Test Results
2017 Porsche Macan Turbo
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Test Results
2017 Porsche Macan Turbo
Airbags, Child Seats, and Spare Tire Location
Although the Macan Turbo’s short rear doors leave tight openings through which one must shove a child seat, once it is maneuvered inside, the rear seat’s lower cushion is level, so no adjustments or padding are necessary. Finding the LATCH anchors is a mild chore, too.
Active-Safety Features
Typically, automakers make active-safety features available to customers in bundles. Porsche flips this script by individually furnishing blind-spot monitoring ($690), a lane-keeping-assist self-steering function ($690), and adaptive cruise control with forward-collision warning ($1440). Buyers who want both lane-keeping assist and blind-spot monitoring must get them as a package for $1380. That means that to load a Macan Turbo with all available active safety gear, you’ll spend $2820. In the scheme of Porsche option pricing-and the industry overall-that isn’t a lot of money.
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