Pour one out for the first-generation Macan as Porsche is weeks away from pulling the plug on its venerable compact crossover. In production since early 2014, the “sports car among SUVs” will be retired at the end of the month, when the last example rolls off the assembly line in Leipzig. The original Macan has already been dead in Europe for a couple of years after failing to comply with the cybersecurity requirements of the General Safety Regulation (GSR2). Now, it's about to die everywhere.
At the beginning of the year, Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume and former Porsche boss admitted Zuffenhausen made the wrong move when it decided to kill off the cash cow. At the time, the company assumed buyers would naturally switch to the second-generation, electric-only model. However, that didn’t happen at the rate Porsche expected:
