Our review of Porsche's electric car for 'off the beaten track' - the Taycan Cross Turismo
► Allroad-style version adds ride height and a bigger bootIf you looked at Porsche’s literature you might assume that the company is allergic to the ‘estate’ word. Whatever your thoughts, you can see why Porsche needed to createTaycan for ‘off the beaten track’. The eye-watering R&D spend needs amortising and, what’s more, in the UK, the Taycan’s become Porsche’s best-selling car.
It isn’t found on the Porsche driving mode selector on the steering wheel, but instead on a haptic feedback button on the screen closest to your legs. Porsche engineers imagine Norwegian buyers pursuing outdoor lifestyles with this mode, but the truth is Brits will want it for getting down rutted tracks to golf clubs. We tried that, and it worked a treat. You can feel the suspension rebound lightly in huge holes we wouldn’t dream of driving into in a regular Taycan.
We’ve tried the 4S more recently and can’t fathom how you’d want anything faster. Even if you stay away from the fancy modes and temporary boosts of extra power, this is still a near-500bhp car that’ll run to 62mph in under five seconds. It means anything, be it overtakes on a B-road or getting up to speed from a motorway slip road, are dispatched long before you – let alone your passengers – were expecting. And compared to the Turbo, you’ll be saving £30k too.
What this also means is that the ride is hard. Intriguingly there’s no comfort mode. Only ‘regular’. Even with the suspension at its highest it’s fidgety at low speeds. Not enough to make you think twice about flooring it, butStill, that extra ride height comes in handy.
Keeping an eye on remaining range is easy enough too, and likely to be a preoccupation on very long journeys . Perhaps unsurprisingly the Taycan is not the most efficient EV out there, likely a product of its performance bias and elements of its detail engineering. Over 50 miles in the Turbo S we lost 29% of the battery’s charge, and showed a miles-per-kWh average of around 1.3.
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