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I don't think the film is on the exterior but looks like an internal lamination to me.

Looks like contamination of the film layer during manufacture to me.

Yes the GTS version of the spyder wheel is as gorgeous as the gloss and machined version for other models is "meh" to my eye. Just like the turbo aeros, they look great on the GTS and not normally (IMO of course)

I do notice a small difference in ride between my 20" winter wheels and 21" summer wheels but based on my vehicle dynamics experience I would expect the ST to have worse ride on poor roads simply because it has 15mm less bump suspension travel. If you drive on nice smooth roads it may be barely...

Cross and Sport Turismos have a fixed roof extension. Not having a wing profile in side view they don't need a spoiler to reduce lift like the saloons do and already have 20% more drag than the saloon!

These are from the winter tyre list GTS 20" https://tequipment-finder.porsche.com/prod/pag/tequipment/TeqFinder.nsf/TeqFinder?ReadForm&co=30&ma=PCGB%20(RL)&sp=1&ac=product&pr=963B5FF15B430CF3C1258788003B7DBD&ba=Taycan&bt=J1&mo=Taycan%20GTS#menu-content GTS 21"...

Not impossible but fairly unlikely on low profile radials which normally have a fairly stiff belt. The contact patch will be smaller (shorter) so less grip though again probably by not much. On the racing cars we ran the lowest pressure which could take the load, which varied between makers and...

Maybe the USA is different. Here some GTS wheels are satin black painted all over and look great, particularly the 21" spyder and 20-Inch Taycan Turbo S Aero Design Wheels which to my eye look hugely better than the gloss black versions with machined highlights you get with every other version...

No idea why, and I suspect if I had pushed it I could have got them but I liked my second choice enough not to bother. Different countries have different approaches to this sort of thing. The wheel design isn't specific to the GTS the paint finish is. On all other Taycans you get gloss black...

I run my tyres at the "loaded" pressures to better resist pothole damage.

I don't have the fake sound and don't miss it, I turned it off in the demo car because it is pointless and irritating to me. I prefer the look of the metal roof, it is lighter and you only notice the glass roof from the back seat FWIW but the back may be a bit dark with privacy glass without...

On short journeys definitely but I haven't looked on the longer one I did recently, sorry.

No, I haven't had a period not using the car that long since. I have bought a trickle charger just in case.

My old sports car has 380 bhp and no traction control. It can't take full throttle in 1st gear without spinning the Pirelli Pzeros uncontrollably and you have to be careful in 2nd. I would be shocked if a Taycan doesn't use stability control on full throttle acceleration from a standstill, there...

Not impossible but I doubt it, personally. Electric motors do have a wide and smooth power curve though and it isn't "fixed" like in an IC engine, it depends on acceptable temperature so is time as well as rpm linked. Vehicle stability control can be very much more precisely controlled and much...

No I haven't looked but I thought the J1 has 2 chambers which gives 3 rates, the third by combining both chambers. If I buy another, which is unlikely because of my age, I would get active suspension.

This will almost certainly be traction control system limited. The actual thrust at the tyre is motor torque multiplied by gear ratio and probably in second gear the tyre thrust is no longer near grip limit so max motor torque can be transmitted. In my tests, admittedly on racing cars with far...

Reviewers in the sporty orientated publications here preferred the feel of the steel suspended RWD to other Taycans, and the Porsche development driver said it was his preference in an interview, but most people don't actually drive that way and the "market has spoken" about air suspension. I...

Mine seems to randomly stay either as two or go to one. It seems to be maybe linked to whether I have used preheat from the App or not and what the settings were. I have no definitive experiment to show why, so not completely sure. It has done this from new.

Being tight fisted and keen on efficiency the thing that appealed to me most when I got a CT4 loan car was less waste energy charging it from my home dispenser, my CT4S car wastes 500W of electricity in overhead whilst charging whereas the new CT4 wastes almost none. OTOH range is rarely an...