“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be quick,” laughs Dr Ingo Albers, director chassis, product line Taycan, as we head out to the mildly disguised preproduction Taycan Turbo S at the test track in Germany. Ingo’s chassis engineer Christian Wolfsried is doing the driving today. The first surprise is that it’s not silent, the Taycan emitting a sound that’s oddly Porsche in its tone, yet clearly electrical. It’s an optional extra, and one that can be switched, it worth ticking the option box for.
Wolfsried’s speciality is torque vectoring, and he’s quick to demonstrate it around the tight, demanding track. The acceleration, as is normal with EV drivetrains, is immediate, but even so, the brutality of the acceleration is breathtaking, it impossible not to emit an involuntary grunt as Wolfsried…