Porsche Taycan Turbo GT can accelerate to 100 km/h in less than 2 seconds (9 photos)
Independent tests have found the electric Porsche to be faster than its advertised specs.
Road tests conducted by Car and Driver magazine have recorded the real-world performance of the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT, which owners of these cars can now brag about. The stock Taycan Turbo GT, on Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS tires, is reported to have accelerated from 0 to 60 mph (or 0–96.5 km/h) in a fleeting 1,910 seconds. After turning around, it repeated the same procedure in 1,898 seconds.
At the same time, the passport data looks somewhat more modest: 2.1 seconds from 0 to 60 miles per hour, and even then with the optional Weissach package, which implies a lightweight car. Let us recall that in the Taycan Turbo GT, when launch control is activated, the output of the dual-motor installation instantly soars from 789 to 1033 hp, and briefly, in Attack Mode, to 1109 hp.
Thus, the German electric car became the fastest in the history of the magazine's tests, breaking the records of the 1020-horsepower Tesla Model S Plaid, the 1234-horsepower Lucid Air Sapphire, capable of reaching 60 miles per hour in 2.1 seconds, as well as the hybrid Ferrari SF90, accelerating to the desired values in exactly 2 seconds.
True, Taycan did not reach absolute records of serial or small-series cars. They belong to Aspark Owl, Rimac Nevera and Pininfarina Batista and are 1.7, 1.7 and 1.8 seconds respectively. The standard Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is also worth mentioning separately, but for the record acceleration of 1.66 seconds it requires a prepared drag strip, slicks and gasoline with ethanol.