Porsche’s latest, hottest Taycan is only tenths slower than the McLaren Senna hypercar.
2025 Porsche Taycan Turbo GT With Weissach Package Beats Tesla Model S Plaid’s Laguna Seca Lap RecordWatch This! Jethro Bovingdon Gets Sideways at MotorTrend’s 2019 Best Driver’s Car"He went faster!" I shouted. None of the approximately four-dozen human beings—an equal mix of influencer/content-creator types and Porsche employees—standing behind me heard a word.
This new Taycan variant will sit atop the Turbo S in the Taycan range when it arrives at U.S. dealerships this summer. The Taycan Turbo GT comes in two flavors, regular and the significantly modified track monster dubbed the Weissach package. Beginning with the Taycan Turbo GT, horsepower is way up compared to the S, with overboost raising it from 938 to 1,093. Regular power output rises from 764 to 1,019 hp. Torque also increases, from 818 to 988 lb-ft.
The Turbo GT still uses the original Taycan's layout, with just two motors versus the three-motor setups found in the Tesla Model X Plaid and Lucid Air Sapphire. The Taycan Turbo GTs also retain the two-speed transmission connected only to the rear motor. Visually, though, you can easily tell the Weissach package from the "normal" Turbo GT by the big wing stuck on the former's rump. It increases downforce by 303 pounds in the rear, according to the manufacturer.
Happy it had smashed Tesla's time but still wanting more, Porsche put Kern into the black and blue car for one more attempt. An employee let slip that the Model S Plaid was never the real target..
That's a mere 0.2 second difference between a 5,000-pound electric sedan and one of the quickest production car laps ever recorded at Laguna Seca, by a McLaren Senna—a veritable carbon-fiber track toy that weighs about a full
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