STUTTGART'S SILENT STORMBRINGER

The Macan Turbo EV takes Porsche's best habits (feel, finesse, mischief) and plugs them into a new kind of everyday speed.

- By Dhiram Shah

The electric Macan looks reassuringly like, well, a Macan. Porsche hasn't tried to reinvent the silhouette so much as sharpen it, like a good tailor quietly refining a classic suit. The nose is lower and cleaner, the surfacing tighter, the rear light bar crisper, and on the Turbo the darker accents and big wheels give it a slightly predatory air. It’s the kind of car that looks perfectly at ease nosed up to a Bandra café or parked outside a Bengaluru hotel where pitch decks outnumber cocktail menus, and there is a pleasing lack of gimmickry to the design. It doesn’t shout about being electric; it simply looks like the sportiest thing in the car park that also happens to plug in.