Ask anyone who’s driven one. It’s the best handling EV on the market, period.
In a luxury EV market dominated by King Tesla, Porsche is the only brand to have made a significant dent and its Taycan outsells its rival's Model S.CHARLEVOIX, Michigan — On a vacant country road south of this small north Michigan burg, I initiated launch control in my all-electric, Mamba Green, 2022 Taycan GTS Sport Turismo wagon by simultaneously flattening the brake and accelerator pedals. Just like a Porsche 911 sports car.
In a luxury EV market dominated by King Tesla, Porsche is the only brand to have made a significant dent. The Tesla Model 3, for example, outsold the No. 2 sedan in its class, the Hyundai Ioniq Electric, 128,600 units to 1,766 last year. The compact Model Y SUV outsold the Ford Mustang Mach-E: 172,700 to 27,140.
I’ve raced Porsches, owned Porsches, put the 911 on a pedestal as the best sports car on the planet. But I haven’t bonded with Panamera, the brand’s first sedan/wagon. Maybe because it looks like an overstuffed 911. Maybe because it’s powered by front-mounted, V-shaped engines , not rear, horizontally-opposed, flat-cylinder engines. Maybe because of its cluttered center console.By contrast, I’m smitten by Porsche’s second sedan/wagon entry because of its aforementioned attributes.
Necks swiveled wherever I went. At a Charlevoix cross walk, a family walked by before the dad finally stopped in his tracks, staring. GTS OMG. The wagon then adopts the hatchback from the Cross Turismo Taycan crossover — sans fender cladding for a sleek, simple aesthetic. Everything is simple. The electronic shifter has been reduced to a chicklet-sized toggle on the dash, freeing up the center console for a haptic touchscreen. Climate controls and charging info are accessed here — freeing the infotainment screens to do infotainment stuff like Sirius XM and Android Auto navigation.Given its sales numbers, most Porsche sedan buyers apparently drive local. But hit the road to Charlevoix from my Oakland County domicile and Taycan is notably thin on self-driving tech.
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