Porsche Taycan GTS Sport Turismo first UK drive: Stuttgart’s standard-setting EV arrives in more practical estate-like guise
I’m testing it in launch GTS spec, which sits somewhere between more ordinary Taycans and the super-fast Turbos. It gets its own suspension tune, which includes air springs as standard and active rear steering as a £1650 option .With two electric motors giving 590bhp and 626lb ft from rest, the GTS is almost as absurdly fast as one of the Turbos. It will do 0-62mph in 3.
With other cars in the Porsche line-up, the GTS variant often looks like one of the best in the range; but things are more nuanced here, owing perhaps to the options or chassis tune. Mostly it’s great. It feels entirely connected to the road but with a better ride quality than anything on 21in alloys has a given right to. You can see the wings, so for a big car it’s relatively easy to place, and it’s indecently rapid and responsive.
What’s best about the Taycan is that it feels like a Porsche. The control weights are spot-on, with beefier steering than in similar cars and a sense of true road feel and accuracy. But whether it’s the tune or the options, on the sort of terrible roads that we have in Britain, with dodgy cambers meeting complex corner diameters and with tree roots slapping into one side, it doesn’t always quite keep up. You can sense the rear-steer helping it turn, but not always quite as you want. Pop the suspension into a lower, stiffer mode and it’s better but less compliant.
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