That fun sure didn't last long... totaled Taycan Turbo GT on Copart with just 1,322 miles

[Jonathan S.]

https://www.copart.com/lot/74401605/2025-porsche-taycan-turbo-gt-il-chicago-north

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[whitex]

Surprisingly, it still appears drivable, in turtle mode, but still.

 

[Mr.Smith]

This was the car I wanted if the buyer backed out, but he took delivery.
He sold it after 1300 miles.

It crashed into a center devider on summer tiress in cold weather after very few miles

 

[69Mach390]

https://www.copart.com/lot/74401605/2025-porsche-taycan-turbo-gt-il-chicago-north

Why is the whole car soaking wet including the interior?

It looks like someone used that pressure sprayer on the whole thing not realizing the windows were down.

Of course that is the least of that cars worries.

 

[targa666]

O dear…
That underlines the urge of wintertires!

 

[whitex]

Why is the whole car soaking wet including the interior?

It looks like someone used that pressure sprayer on the whole thing not realizing the windows were down.

Of course that is the least of that cars worries.

Or it was just out in the rain in a tow yard. Unlike at the dealer, tow yards don't care to baby the cars so much, they move cars with forklifts (don't always even have keys), nobody cares if a window is cracked open or missing). The car will not sell for any more if it has a few less scratches or is carefully protected from rain.

You may also be right about someone just powerwashing the car. It will sell for more if pictures show it clean but wet, than dirty and dry, and the sale price is that they care about.

 

[snstevens]

This was the car I wanted if the buyer backed out, but he took delivery.
He sold it after 1300 miles.

It crashed into a center diver on summer tiress in cold weather after very few miles

Any more story behind the crash? Just slick streets and summer tires?

 

[whitex]

Any more story behind the crash? Just slick streets and summer tires?

Summer tires in freezing weather can definitely be slick, but I suspect whoever drove it was overconfident and not used to 1000hp (especially on tires with compromised traction). There have been a bunch of examples of youtubers driving the Model S Plaid when it first came out, with traction control at least partially disabled (like "track mode") because you know "they're expert drivers", and end up driving the cars into curbs or dividers. Here is one example of a YouTube warrior in "track mode":

(crash shown at the very beginning of the video, go to 22:45 to see the youtuber's explanation what happened. 25:31 to see the crash Tesla dashcam again and the driver's explanation how he "did safely it with a Miata before" LOL).

 

[Crazymind]

You just need money to buy a powerful car, nothing else… also we have all been there… trying all the driving modes and push the car over the limits to test traction, braking power, handling… no pilots in this forum, or very few with experience to handle excessive optimism on public roads…
I am never confident to push my Taycan in any corner, it’s too heavy, you can feel the weight moving from one side to another. It really holds the lines but most of the job is done by the tyres and any excess will result in tyres screaming for help.
Opposite to this experience is my Elise, where the chassis does the job not the tyres. No matter what you throw at it, tyres will never scream for help.

 

[Murph7355]

You just need money to buy a powerful car, nothing else…...

In the UK back in 1990 or so there were calls in some quarters for the govt to step in on the ludicrous power the new Lotus Carlton saloon/sedan had for similar reasons....

It had 377bhp.

 

[whitex]

Opposite to this experience is my Elise, where the chassis does the job not the tyres. No matter what you throw at it, tyres will never scream for help.

Ha, ha, you sound like a sales guy on a test drive of an Honda Prelude SH I took very long time ago (90's IIRC). He told me I wasn't pushing the car hard enough to activate torque vectoring. So I pushed the car as hard as I could, in a parking lot so we didn't hit anything but sure left some smoke and skid-marks. Good news, the car handled well, ended up drifting without spinning out. Bad news - well, the torque vectoring light still didn't light up. The other bad news - once he peeled himself off the passenger side window, the sales guy screamed at me to get out of the car, then he drove back to the dealership cursing at me. I asked him if he thought the car is broken, since the torque vectoring indicator still never went on, or does he still think I didn't corner hard enough to engage it.

 

[Mr.Smith]

Any more story behind the crash? Just slick streets and summer tires?

Thats all the info on it. It happened a few miles from the original selling dealer

 

[kern417]

Or it was just out in the rain in a tow yard. Unlike at the dealer, tow yards don't care to baby the cars so much, they move cars with forklifts (don't always even have keys), nobody cares if a window is cracked open or missing). The car will not sell for any more if it has a few less scratches or is carefully protected from rain.

You may also be right about someone just powerwashing the car. It will sell for more if pictures show it clean but wet, than dirty and dry, and the sale price is that they care about.

just unfortunate because my first thought was you can take parts of the interior and trunk if you wanted to upgrade your car OEM+ style.

but after seeing that, i'm thinking...maybe just the trunk

 

[Mr.Smith]

just unfortunate because my first thought was you can take parts of the interior and trunk if you wanted to upgrade your car OEM+ style.

but after seeing that, i'm thinking...maybe just the trunk

I want the rear motor assembly with 900amp inverter.its around $22k new

 

[snstevens]

Summer tires in freezing weather can definitely be slick, but I suspect whoever drove it was overconfident and not used to 1000hp (especially on tires with compromised traction). There have been a bunch of examples of youtubers driving the Model S Plaid when it first came out, with traction control at least partially disabled (like "track mode") because you know "they're expert drivers", and end up driving the cars into curbs or dividers. Here is one example of a YouTube warrior in "track mode":

(crash shown at the very beginning of the video, go to 22:45 to see the youtuber's explanation what happened. 25:31 to see the crash Tesla dashcam again and the driver's explanation how he "did safely it with a Miata before" LOL).

I find it a bit weird to watch a video of people, laughing and joking, and examining the car after having spun out unnecessarily and crashing into a sign.

It’s one way to make money I guess.

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