The CEO of Porsche Cars Australia is keen to get his hands on the successor to the discontinued petrol-powered Macan to sit alongside the new electric-only SUV when it’s launched in a couple of years.
He sees a ‘very good opportunity’ in ‘a mid-size SUV with combustion power, and possibly even an plug-in hybrid (and maybe even if it is just.
We did very, very well with the Macan petrol.’ The. Over the last, over 10 years of its history as a super success story, this was more than.
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Is it a good opportunity for Australia to be ? It certainly is, looking at the segments, if we look into VFACTS, what is selling, that would definitely be. Paraphrasingr ’It is.
His comments come after Porsche’s global boss Oliver Blume told investors in 2025 that Porsche is “developing a compact SUV with both ICE and hybrid versions” to complement the Macan EV.
In addition, Mr Blume said that the company is ‘speeding up the process there with very short development times’ and he was hoping to launch the new mid-size SUV in major markets “no later than 2028”.
In addition to this, Porsche’s global CEO said the new car would be ‘very, very typical Porsche for this segment and also differentiated from the BEV Macan’ – meaning that the brand new SUV will have a different name.
Porsche Macan Electric
That said, Porsche’s decision to sell the all-new fourth-generation Cayenne Electric alongside the petrol and plug-in hybrid-powered third-generation Cayenne and Cayenne Coupe means the new model, which will be sold alongside the Macan Electric, may end up being called the Macan after all.
The original Macan shared its underpinnings with previous generations of the Audi Q5, so it’s almost certain that Porsche will use the latest generation of Audi’s mid-size SUV as the basis of its successor.
Where the old Macan was based on the MLB evo platform from the Volkswagen Group, it’s likely the petrol and hybrid-powered Macan replacement will use the newer Premium Platform Combustion (PPC) toolkit that underpins the latest Audi A5 and Q5 – which itself is a development of the MLB architecture.
That would make the new Macan and Macan Electric similar to the Audi Q5 and Q6 e-tron in utilising the VW Group’s PPC and Premium Platform Electric (PPE) architectures concurrently, respectively.
This means that it’s also the petrol-powered replacement for Porsche’s popular smaller SUV could have an entirely electrically assisted engine range – 48V mild-hybrid (MHEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV), powertrains.
A current Audi Q5 has a four- and six-cylinder turbocharged petrol and diesel engine, as well as four wheel turbo-petrol plug-in hybrids.
Since the outgoing Macan’s engine range had similar cylinder numbers, it would be appropriate for Porsche to use versions of the Audi’t petrol engines as the Stuttgart marque has been opposed to turbo-diesels after the VW Group’S ‘dieselgate’ emissions scandal.
That means we could see the new ‘Macan’ offered with a 200kW 2.0-litre EA888 turbo-petrol engine, as well as a version of the SQ5‘s 270kW 3.0-litre V6 turbo-petrol engine – both of these could also feature 48V MHEV assistance like they do in the Audi, which would allow for EV driving at very low speeds.
In addition, the higher-output 270kW 2.0-litre e-hybrid PHEV powertrain could make for a logical ‘Macan E-Hybrid’ candidate, given it offers similar power to the V6 TFSI, while the RS5‘s new 470kW 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6 PHEV powertrain could be a potential starter for a high-performance ‘Macan Turbo E-Hybrid’ – but we’re just speculating.
This mysterious new Porsche SUV is a mystery that we may not see for nearly two years, so it’s just time to wait and see what happens when the car comes to fruition.
In 2025, Porsche sales in Australia dipped by 27 per cent to 5133 units (down from 7029 in 2024).
This was partly due to a 34 per cent drop in Macan sales as the range went into EV-only, and sales slides for just about every single one of the company’s nameplates (excluding the low volume Panamera limousine), which did not sell.
In a statement to reporters, Mr Schmollinger said the drop in sales volume ‘is not surprising’ as the overall market has been slow after consecutive record years and adoption of all-electric cars has also gone down – an important factor for Porsche given its Taycan (Macan Electric) and soon CaYenne electric car.
The local Porsche CEO, pictured with the new 911 Turbo S and Cayenne Electric at the Melbourne GP event, said there’s ‘more [new models] to come’ as well as the brand-new 911 turbo S.
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