I’ve had my Taycan 6 months now.

[f1eng]

It was almost 18 months from order to pickup with 12V battery shortage leading to months in storage but I am glad I didn’t cancel.
Things I like a lot:-
Ride/handling compromise in “normal” is perfect.
Coast when liftoff, I know from racing it is most efficient - we did it in Formula 1 and they do in Le Mans sports cars. I thought it would take a bit of getting used to but no it was quick and easy.
I was looking for a quiet comfortable car with a good turn of speed when wanted and the Taycan delivers that but with better steering and handling than anything else quiet and comfortable by far. I didn’t spec the faux sound and haven’t missed it once. It seemed daft to me to buy a quiet car and make it fake noisy and still does.
Mamba Green.
Blackberry leather.?
Neodyme particularly the compass face and around the curved display, which I hadn’t expected. It lifts the interior and is subtly lovely.
Vesuvius grey 21” cross Turismo wheels. Love the “chariot wheel” look and the Vesuvius grey is a superb satin finish.
Matching Vesuvius grey inserts, I prefer satin to gloss details.
The driving position and steering feel are perfect for me.
The brake performance and the blend from regeneration to friction is seamless and a superb pedal feel on the friction brakes.
Edit: Not having adaptive cruise, Innodrive or any other driver overiding devices
Things I don’t like:-
Size and weight. I nearly didn’t buy it because of the width and length. The weight is largely expected with a big battery but the width means I quite often use a different car round here, which is a shame.
Not sure about:-
Rear wheel steering, probably get some use from it but too much traffic around here to really lean on the car but it is stupendously nimble swerving to avoid potholes, which is good. I need to do it often.
Active anti roll bars. They probably contribute to the superb ride but how much I don’t know, it was an expensive impulse choice.
PCM etc. there are lots of complaints on here but it works fine for me and is much more sophisticated and complicated than any car I have had before. It can do things I never knew I needed and it turns out I still don’t need much, I don’t bother with much of its capability.



I’ll add stuff as I think of it.

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[007]

How many miles did you put on it so far?

 

[f1eng]

How many miles did you put on it so far?

2.5K

 

[007]

That’s not much at all… just 4k km. gotta do some driving my friend.

I work from home but drive the kiddos to school and back, plus 2 road trips to the beach, and already clocked 9k km in 4 months of driving (owned the car for a bit longer but the car sits the garage when out of the country). Mines been 100% problem free.

 

[WuffvonTrips]

Mamba Green.
Blackberry leather.?
Neodyme particularly the compass face and around the curved display, which I hadn’t expected. It lifts the interior and is subtly lovely.
Vesuvius grey 21” cross Turismo wheels. Love the “chariot wheel” look and the Vesuvius grey is a superb satin finish.
Matching Vesuvius grey inserts, I prefer satin to gloss details.

Any chance of some photos or links if you've already posted elsewhere?

The brake performance and the blend from regeneration to friction is seamless and a superb pedal feel on the friction brakes.

Definitely my experience. It surprises me that some people have reported otherwise.

I nearly didn’t buy it because of the width and length. The weight is largely expected with a big battery but the width means I quite often use a different car round here, which is a shame.

Having just come back from a week around the Yorkshire Dales on actual or effectively single-tracked lanes with passing places (designated or improvised), I've relaxed my policy of marking them on my (paper) road maps for future avoidance, having now experienced a great deal of fair compromise between oncoming drivers (I guess it helps that so many of the roads in that area require such behaviour). +Thank goodness for surround view (luckily I've not yet needed to fold the mirrors in).

 

[Chas1]

It was almost 18 months from order to pickup with 12V battery shortage leading to months in storage but I am glad I didn’t cancel.
Things I like a lot:-
Ride/handling compromise in “normal” is perfect.
Coast when liftoff, I know from racing it is most efficient - we did it in Formula 1 and they do in Le Mans sports cars. I thought it would take a bit of getting used to but no it was quick and easy.
I was looking for a quiet comfortable car with a good turn of speed when wanted and the Taycan delivers that but with better steering and handling than anything else quiet and comfortable by far. I didn’t spec the faux sound and haven’t missed it once. It seemed daft to me to buy a quiet car and make it fake noisy and still does.
Mamba Green.
Blackberry leather.?
Neodyme particularly the compass face and around the curved display, which I hadn’t expected. It lifts the interior and is subtly lovely.
Vesuvius grey 21” cross Turismo wheels. Love the “chariot wheel” look and the Vesuvius grey is a superb satin finish.
Matching Vesuvius grey inserts, I prefer satin to gloss details.
The driving position and steering feel are perfect for me.
The brake performance and the blend from regeneration to friction is seamless and a superb pedal feel on the friction brakes.
Things I don’t like:-
Size and weight. I nearly didn’t buy it because of the width and length. The weight is largely expected with a big battery but the width means I quite often use a different car round here, which is a shame.
Not sure about:-
Rear wheel steering, probably get some use from it but too much traffic around here to really lean on the car but it is stupendously nimble swerving to avoid potholes, which is good. I need to do it often.
Active anti roll bars. They probably contribute to the superb ride but how much I don’t know, it was an expensive impulse choice.
PCM etc. there are lots of complaints on here but it works fine for me and is much more sophisticated and complicated than any car I have had before. It can do things I never knew I needed and it turns out I still don’t need much, I don’t bother with much of its capability.



I’ll add stuff as I think of it.

All very interesting thanks, I think the Colour combo is seriously brave but might actually work. Love Mambo but not brave enough to pair with blackberrry leather. You don’t say whether this really works ??? I completely agree about the excessive width and length of Taycan. It has delayed my purchase of the car until now but guess I’ll just drive slower or take the Mini Cooper van.

 

[DCYL725]

Swerving manholes and potholes is about the most I can do to enjoy the handling of the car, thus I do it all the time.

No curving mountain roads with endless scenery where I am. It's just city street after city street after city street filled with scooters, annoying taxi hail cabs, and jaywalking pedestrians.

The horn works great though. Good thing I didn't need to option it.

@OP, glad you're enjoying the car!

 

[f1eng]

That’s not much at all… just 4k km. gotta do some driving my friend.

I work from home but drive the kiddos to school and back, plus 2 road trips to the beach, and already clocked 9k km in 4 months of driving (owned the car for a bit longer but the car sits the garage when out of the country). Mines been 100% problem free.

I don't drive for the sake of driving and the Taycan is so big I am not using it for everything.
I will put more miles on visiting now the weather is getting better.

 

[f1eng]

Any chance of some photos or links if you've already posted elsewhere?

I haven't taken many photos except when I first posted, and I don't remember where probably Mamba club and/or the one where you are supposed to have a nice view in the background, both in early December.

I did take some iPhone pictures a while back but the auto colour balance is spectacularly crap at getting it right when there is a lot of one colour, I suppose it tries to get a uniform "grey" overall balance, so not only were colours in the the pictures different to each other none were right. I thought I'd use Photoshop but it has changed with so many software updates since I used to use it a lot a decade ago, nothing was where I expected it to be in the menus any more and I gave up!
Aspergers isn't good in a world where software changes all the time, I hate change for no obvious reason, so I gave up grumpy.

I may have another go, but at the moment I am unable to conveniently use my Adobe software and I am reluctant to devote enough time to re-learning and re-finding stuff I used to easily do before.

Yes I am very grumpy about it, sorry

 

[f1eng]

Love Mambo but not brave enough to pair with blackberrry leather.

Green and Purple are complementary colours, so yes, it works.

I am bored by the black which is forced on you in sporty cars nowadays so considered Blackberry, Truffle and the black/chalk beige (which gives a light executive jet look to the interior). In the end I chose Blackberry for the look, though the chalk beige is probably best for an EV given A/C power consumption. The Blackberry with Neodyme looked by far the nicest interior of all to me.

 

[or1]

Green and Purple are complementary colours, so yes, it works.

I am bored by the black which is forced on you in sporty cars nowadays so considered Blackberry, Truffle and the black/chalk beige (which gives a light executive jet look to the interior). In the end I chose Blackberry for the look, though the chalk beige is probably best for an EV given A/C power consumption. The Blackberry with Neodyme looked by far the nicest interior of all to me.

You did not look at black/bordeaux? Less subdued than blackberry, but it works well for me.

 

[f1eng]

You did not look at black/bordeaux? Less subdued than blackberry, but it works well for me.

There was far too much black for me in all the dual colour interiors except the chalk/beige and black. Basically just seat facings and a few other flashes of colour on a mainly black interior, which is what I wanted to avoid.

 

[WuffvonTrips]

I did take some iPhone pictures a while back but the auto colour balance is spectacularly crap at getting it right when there is a lot of one colour, I suppose it tries to get a uniform "grey" overall balance, so not only were colours in the the pictures different to each other none were right. I thought I'd use Photoshop but it has changed with so many software updates since I used to use it a lot a decade ago, nothing was where I expected it to be in the menus any more and I gave up!
Aspergers isn't good in a world where software changes all the time, I hate change for no obvious reason, so I gave up grumpy.

I may have another go, but at the moment I am unable to conveniently use my Adobe software and I am reluctant to devote enough time to re-learning and re-finding stuff I used to easily do before.

Yes I am very grumpy about it, sorry

? I share your outlook, as (I suspect) do the majority of people who use software as a tool rather than a toy or status symbol. As well as image editing tools, my pet hates include "improvements" in music production software and even Windows itself. The majority of useful functionality was implemented in early versions, then ever since they've been overdeveloped with supposedly user-friendlier interfaces that adds loads of dumb gimmicks at the expense of hiding the useful functions, disorientating users of previous versions and to top it all become more hardware-resource intensive. Grrr!
And to your point about auto colour balance, the development of software for phones, displays and social media apps seem to be conspiring to promote a caricature of reality- the visual equivalent of the loudness button on cheap "hi-fi" with the added laughable/scary distortion of faces and bodies to conform with some teenager's ideals.

Anyway- to get back on topic, I'm glad that you still feel that your painfully long wait for delivery was worthwhile. This thread has reminded me that I'm coming up to 12 months with mine, and I've done just over 5,000 miles, which is actually more than I've done since I retired over 10 years ago. I've never before driven so much just for the sake of driving, and that's down to the pleasure of the Taycan.

 

[f1eng]

? I share your outlook, as (I suspect) do the majority of people who use software as a tool rather than a toy or status symbol. As well as image editing tools, my pet hates include "improvements" in music production software and even Windows itself. The majority of useful functionality was implemented in early versions, then ever since they've been overdeveloped with supposedly user-friendlier interfaces that adds loads of dumb gimmicks at the expense of hiding the useful functions, disorientating users of previous versions and to top it all become more hardware-resource intensive. Grrr!
And to your point about auto colour balance, the development of software for phones, displays and social media apps seem to be conspiring to promote a caricature of reality- the visual equivalent of the loudness button on cheap "hi-fi" with the added laughable/scary distortion of faces and bodies to conform with some teenager's ideals.

Anyway- to get back on topic, I'm glad that you still feel that your painfully long wait for delivery was worthwhile. This thread has reminded me that I'm coming up to 12 months with mine, and I've done just over 5,000 miles, which is actually more than I've done since I retired over 10 years ago. I've never before driven so much just for the sake of driving, and that's down to the pleasure of the Taycan.

A lot of changes punted at us as upgrades add functions I don’t need (but I’m sure somebody must do), they are updates and are sometimes actually functional downgrades IME to make you buy something else or take out a free service.

 

[daveo4EV]

It was almost 18 months from order to pickup with 12V battery shortage leading to months in storage but I am glad I didn’t cancel.
Things I like a lot:-
Ride/handling compromise in “normal” is perfect.
Coast when liftoff, I know from racing it is most efficient - we did it in Formula 1 and they do in Le Mans sports cars. I thought it would take a bit of getting used to but no it was quick and easy.
I was looking for a quiet comfortable car with a good turn of speed when wanted and the Taycan delivers that but with better steering and handling than anything else quiet and comfortable by far. I didn’t spec the faux sound and haven’t missed it once. It seemed daft to me to buy a quiet car and make it fake noisy and still does.
Mamba Green.
Blackberry leather.?
Neodyme particularly the compass face and around the curved display, which I hadn’t expected. It lifts the interior and is subtly lovely.
Vesuvius grey 21” cross Turismo wheels. Love the “chariot wheel” look and the Vesuvius grey is a superb satin finish.
Matching Vesuvius grey inserts, I prefer satin to gloss details.
The driving position and steering feel are perfect for me.
The brake performance and the blend from regeneration to friction is seamless and a superb pedal feel on the friction brakes.
Things I don’t like:-
Size and weight. I nearly didn’t buy it because of the width and length. The weight is largely expected with a big battery but the width means I quite often use a different car round here, which is a shame.
Not sure about:-
Rear wheel steering, probably get some use from it but too much traffic around here to really lean on the car but it is stupendously nimble swerving to avoid potholes, which is good. I need to do it often.
Active anti roll bars. They probably contribute to the superb ride but how much I don’t know, it was an expensive impulse choice.
PCM etc. there are lots of complaints on here but it works fine for me and is much more sophisticated and complicated than any car I have had before. It can do things I never knew I needed and it turns out I still don’t need much, I don’t bother with much of its capability.



I’ll add stuff as I think of it.

congrats - nearly 3 years in for me and I still love it - have the "next one" queued up for post refresh - my only complaints are I'd like a bit more efficiency and North American CCS network needs a serious tune up…(and of course the North American EVSE from Porsche has it's issues)…the car however is "spectacular".

I'm glad you're enjoy'ing yours as much as I love mine.

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