It’s safe to state that Porsche isn’t fucking around with the Taycan Turbo GT. This EV track beast is the business’s next action in the development of electrical efficiency. You can wager that this isn’t the last action, either, as they continue to forge ahead with upcoming hybrid 911s and EV Caymans. I’m a huge fan of this action in the evolutionary chain, as the business has actually gone flat out with its EV very sedan, developing the supreme two-seat sporting experience from the platform. And kicking ass at tracks around the globe.
As part of the automobile’s launch previously today, Porsche lastly revealed us the onboard video of the Nürburgring record lap that it revealed back in January. Porsche has actually remained in a fight with Tesla for N-ring EV supremacy for the last handful of years, and this may not be the bomb drop that ends the war. At the minimum, it’ll definitely keep Tesla engineers hectic playing catch-up for the next year or more.
Click use the video listed below and you’ll instantly see the excellent speed with which the Taycan attacks the well known Green Hell. There is a lunge off the corners that isn’t possible with a gasoline-powered device, and the speed simply constructs quickly from there. The automobile might definitely utilize a greater leading speed, as it peaks at 188 miles per hour about midway down the long Döttinger Höhe directly.
The 7 minute 7.55 2nd lap is damn remarkable for the be-winged battery on wheels. That’s a much faster lap than Kern’s own record in a 991.2 GT3 Clubsport back in 2017, faster than the manic 997-generation GT2 RS, hell, it’s 21 seconds clear of Walter Röhrl’s well-known Carrera GT lap! Just 27 road-legal automobiles in history have actually turned a quicker lap than this cars and truck. That in itself states rather a lot about the engineering that entered into the Taycan Turbo GT.
My preferred part is at the 6:45 mark of the video when Lars Kern reveals his most courteous German disappointment by tossing up his hands when Attack Mode isn’t offered to press him even quicker. Both hands off the wheel at 173 miles per hour? That Taycan should be one hell of a steady cars and truck.