Porsche Taycan review

Look at that headline: ‘Porsche Taycan review’. And that’s it. A pleasing simplicity, I hope you’ll agree. But where’s the rest of it? You can buy a Taycan GTS Sport Turismo, a Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo or even a Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package. But it is none of the above. It’s a Taycan.

It’s here, not because it’s particularly new but because, to a hack looking for a story, it gives me something to write about. Because when people talk Taycan these days, the conversation inevitably falls into one of two categories: either how blisteringly fast they are, or how quickly they’ve been losing their value of late. Yet here is one that, at least by the standards of its stablemates, is decidedly modest in both regards.

But it’s also the one no one talks about because it’s the entry level model. And I wondered what, exactly, are you losing by choosing, save what seems to me to be increasingly hollow bragging rights?