There’s a new Taycan Turbo GT in town and it’s the fastest accelerating Porsche ever made. Little surprise it’s already smashing records
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
That curious new Porsche Taycan with a wing you’ve been seeing zipping around the Nürburgring in 7:07.55 has a name – it’s the new Taycan Turbo GT.
Basically, it’s a range-topper above the Turbo S aiming to make life awkward for the Tesla Model S Plaid and Lucid Air Sapphire. It’s now been revealed in full, and it’s super fast. Even if you drive a Plaid.
It produces 1,108bhp, will go from 0–62mph in 2.3 seconds and it’s just been hurled around the Laguna Seca raceway in 1:27.8. That’s five seconds faster than the previous electric lap record (held by the Model S). It’s barely half a second slower than a McLaren Senna around the fearsome Californian track.
The car itself is probably more subtle than you might expect. It looks... like a Taycan. There are new air curtains at the front, forged wheels and lighter ceramic brakes, a token slab of carbon fibre on the B-pillar and a new ducktail spoiler at the back. Visually there’s little sense you’re eyeing a car with not far off twice the power of a Carrera GT.
If that’s a little disappointing to you – and you’d like your Turbo GT to announce its digestive tract-bothering speed with a little more gusto – then for the first time on an EV, Porsche will sell you one of its Weissach packages.
This upgrade deletes the back seats, replacing them with a carbon fibre bulkhead. It swaps the ducktail for a fixed wing good for 140kg of claimed downforce. Lashings of carbon fibre are liberally applied, and the result is a 70kg weight saving.
At a claimed 2,290kg, the Turbo GT Weissach is by no means a light car. And Porsche reckons it’ll be a rare niche option, as the majority of customers will want some back seats. But there’s going to be at least a few folks who want to shave an extra tenth off the 0–62mph run. And the Weissach Pack does it.
That means 0–62mph out of the way in 2.2 seconds. Hope that your stomach is as robust as your wallet. Prices will likely crest the £180k mark without too much bother, and the Weissach Pack with many carbon trim pieces will be the first £200k Taycan. Porsche says it will be built in “limited numbers”, perhaps betraying that this is something of an unknown. The big question is: will Porsche fans really queue up to buy a hardcore track focused EV like they do a GT3 RS or 911 S/T? Ollie Kew
