- Porsche has confirmed a new variant of the Taycan EV that promises better performance than any existing model in the sedan’s lineup.
- We think this will be called the Taycan Turbo GT, as the Cayenne SUV’s top model wears that moniker.
- A prototype of this new Taycan beat the previous Turbo S model’s lap time around the Nürburgring by 26 seconds.
Porsche is pushing its electric sports sedan, the Taycan, to ever-higher levels of performance. The automaker has just confirmed the latest new performance variant, which we expect to carry the Turbo GT moniker, in an announcement about a Taycan prototype that smashed the previous lap record set by the Taycan Turbo S at the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany.
The Turbo S is currently the most powerful version of the Taycan, with 750 horsepower from dual electric motors. This new model looks to go a step further, with its most obvious tweaks visible on the prototype being the addition of a large rear wing, a body kit, and what look to be more aggressive wheels and tires. This all helped the Taycan set a new lap time of 7:07.55 around the ‘Ring, a 26 second improvement over the Turbo S.
Like the Cayenne Turbo GT, which is the most hard-core iteration of that luxury SUV, we imagine the Taycan Turbo GT will pack a bit more power, too, and perhaps a few weight-saving measures. It will likely be available only for the sedan bodystyle, and not for the Taycan’s Cross Turismo and Sport Turismo wagon variants, as cool as a longroof Taycan Turbo GT sounds.
We expect Porsche to release more information about this new Taycan model soon, as it will likely join the lineup for the 2025 model year. Expect it to carry a starting price well over $200,000.
Despite being raised on a steady diet of base-model Hondas and Toyotas—or perhaps because of it—Joey Capparella nonetheless cultivated an obsession for the automotive industry throughout his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He found a way to write about cars for the school newspaper during his college years at Rice University, which eventually led him to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for his first professional auto-writing gig at Automobile Magazine. He has been part of the Car and Driver team since 2016 and now lives in New York City.