While there’s the occasional exception - see a newly T-Hybridised 911 - we all know what to expect when it comes to GTS-badged Porsches. A smidge more power, an ever so slightly sportier look, some nice options - just enough, in other words, to neatly justify its premium over a lesser model. Which is why there are so many of them. There’ll be a new EV Macan GTS in time, no doubt, but this month’s newcomer is the updated Taycan GTS.
Based on the recently revised EV, there are more changes to this latest model than might typically be expected of a Gran Turismo Sport Porsche. There’s a huge amount more power, for starters; the overboosted maximum is now 700hp, up from 598hp before. The default output will likely be somewhere in the 600s (previously it was 517hp), though whatever the final tally this is clearly a significantly more powerful Taycan GTS than the last one. There are the stats to prove it, too, with 0.4 seconds taken off the 0-62mph time - now just 3.3 seconds - and that benchmark speed doubled in just 10.4 seconds. That’s 1.6 seconds swifter than the first Taycan GTS. All with a chunk more range thanks to the updates - better thermal management (including upgraded heat pump), a new rear motor, a modified pulse inverter, more powerful batteries, recuperation software tweaks - found across the new Taycan range: the GTS is rated at 390 miles WLTP combined. That’s a gain of 74 miles.
To make this really fast Taycan seem faster still, the GTS gets a push-to-pass boost that raises torque to Launch Control levels when on the move. It lasts for 10 seconds, with a countdown timer and animated display in the dash like a Turbo GT. That’s not the only influence the GTS takes from the Nurburgring record breaker either, with plenty of Race-Tex throughout the cabin and the GT multifunction wheel. Interestingly, those inside the GTS will hear a noise distinct from all other Taycans, with a new sound profile included ‘to do justice to the exhilarating character’ of this new model.
And if exhilarating is perhaps a stretch for a large executive fastback and estate, there are a host of changes to the GTS that ought to make it very nice indeed to drive. That chassis tune is GTS-specific (Porsche hasn’t expanded further on that) for a ‘particularly sporty edge’, aided by standard Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus and PASM. Options, of course, can make the GTS even more so, with a version of the spookily sorted Porsche Active Ride bespoke to this Taycan available alongside rear-wheel steer. And probably a whole host of other bits coming to the configurator this afternoon. The standard 20-inch Taycan Turbo S Aero Design wheels are seen on the wagon here; the red hatch is running the optional 21-inch RS Spyder Design rims, which come in Anthracite Grey. All the GTSes get new Sport Design bumpers to distinguish them from standard Taycans.
Kevin Giek, Porsche’s VP of the Taycan model line, said: “With the extremely wide-ranging Taycan line-up, we meet a wide range of customer wishes and mobility needs. Our latest innovations exemplify this exceptional breadth. Even the first generation of the Taycan GTS was already the sporting standard-bearer of the model line, positioned between the Taycan 4S and Taycan Turbo. And the new edition is no exception.”
Both derivatives are on sale now for deliveries early in the new year, priced from £117,500 for the standard car of £118,300 for the Sport Turismo. Back when we drove a GTS in 2022, an estate was from £104,190, so that’s a fair old uptick - but it would also be fair to say that this represents one of the more far reaching GTS overhauls. Porsche is unequivocal about the fact: ‘The electric sports car surpasses its predecessor in almost every discipline.’ And the old was already pretty damn good; perhaps more attractive than ever, in fact, with Porsche Approved cars like this one, with the RS Spyder Design wheels and a pano roof, for £70k.
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