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No, they didn’t say anything about needing to keep the GTS interior. I don’t like alcantara very much, so it wouldn’t have made a difference if they had.

where did you get the options price list for a 2019 macan ? The current price is £6k plus which is outrageous,more so if it was 1600 a few years ago.

Presumably all these really espensive Porsche colours have unicorn blood in them to justify that cost???

Yep. I looked at a couple of the greens for Eva but £4K was a bit strong. 

It's because there's not much profit in building cars any more but a hell of a profit margin on paint (and any other extras for that matter)

No,it’s here though .

After my initial 'it's not my usual Grey/silver/Black or dark blue ' ,I am really liking the colour. (It was £1400 as well I have the full order sheet...nice of them to now charge £6500 typical porsche)

That really is a lovely colour. I recently saw an A6 Allroad in a similar colour.

Light on options?? It must have a good £20k’s worth?!

Ah but “light on options” by your standards is setting quite a high bar!

I’m with you on the surround and dimming mirrors, but the other things you list are FG that I never considered adding:

Comfort access: deliberate omission for security reasons.
Ventilated seats: not fussed
Burmester: I’ve listened to it in a car I tested and it was good but not worth four times what they charge for BOSE
Adaptive cruise: don’t need it.

Our Qashqai has adaptive cruise and, having used it regularly and found it to be so good, I wouldn't have CC without it now.

Eva hasn’t got adaptive and having been a bit miffed at first I’m now not bothered. The Mini has it as did the Gorilla and most hire cars I get have it. I have recently started to find it too obtrusive, braking or backing off too early where I wouldn’t. It also always defaults to being 50 car lengths behind the car in front when clearly, as a BMW driver, I want to be 2” off the rear bumper of the car ahead. There is also the matter that I have got so used to using the steering wheel buttons on Eva to manage cruise in the same way radar does that it’s kind of redundant. 

Ventilated seats and surround view though…… must haves. Amused to see that auto dimming mirrors are options on Porsches. 🤦 

I find it's only an issue when other drivers significantly vary their speed.   Both our cars remember the last distance selected (it's an option you can select in the menu) and in the Golf the speed in which it gets back to what you've set and the distance also depends on what mode you're in (or configurable in individual mode).   Set it at the closest distance then race mode for the ACC and you can pretend you're actually driving an Audi rather than just a VW! 

When you reduce the distance in my car, a long press of that button turns off the adaptive functionality so you can use it like std cruise control if you want. 

I used to use the steering wheel buttons in the same way in my BMWs.

Auto dimming mirrors aren't an option on the whole range, they've recently made them standard equipment on 911/Panamera/Cayenne....  It wasn't that long ago that basic cruise control was an option, alongside other fairly basic things like heated seats. 

Not worth spending money on something you don't like!  It does come with some other potentially useful things, which used to be in a smaller pack (Driving Asst iirc, it was std on my 7) like speed limit recognition, front/rear collision, cross traffic warnings etc.  As I said, it's how it works in traffic that I like, but not having the full system wouldn't be a deal breaker and I didn't realise the Macan system only worked at 30kmh+, so I wouldn't bother either.