New Range-Topping Porsche Taycan Sets Blistering Nürburgring Lap Time

Porsche announced past week that it achieved an awesome Nürburgring thigh clip of 7:07.55 with a variant of its electrical sedan, the Taycan. Although the circumstantial Taycan exemplary liable for this accomplishment wasn’t disclosed, it is speculated to beryllium a top-tier summation to the forthcoming updated Taycan scope acceptable to deed the marketplace aboriginal this year. The vehicle, apt named Taycan Turbo GT, has been antecedently observed undergoing rigorous investigating astatine the Nürburgring.

While not securing a grounds for an electrical accumulation conveyance astatine the renowned German track, the clip is alternatively close. The existent grounds holder is the Rimac Nevera, boasting a clip of 7:05:298 acceptable successful August 2023. The Rimac Nevera is simply a hypercar with constricted production, 1,914 horsepower and a terms of implicit $2 million.

Although details astir the caller Taycan variant stay undisclosed, it is speculated to person an approximate powerfulness output of 1,000 horsepower, with an estimated terms of astir R5m alternatively than 8 figures.

The precocious achieved clip surpasses those acceptable by the Tesla Model S Plaid with the disposable Track Package (7:25.231) and Porsche’s existent fastest Taycan version, the Taycan Turbo S (7:33.35).

Notably, the caller Taycan variant demonstrates singular repeatability successful performance. According to Kevin Giek, caput of the Taycan enactment astatine Porsche, the improvement operator Lars Kern consistently reproduced the awesome thigh clip implicit aggregate laps during testing.

The thigh was completed connected the afloat 12.9 miles of the Nürburgring Nordschleife, utilizing a pre-production prototype with banal specifications. The lone modifications made were the inclusion of a rotation cage and a racing bucket spot for safety.

Porsche plans to unveil a video of the full tally successful mid-March, coinciding with the expected instauration of the updated Taycan range.

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