Alea yacta est. the dice has rolled…

[I888I]

25 years after ordering the first generation of water cooled 911 (a ‘98 911-996 Carrera 2), and driving that car with pride and pleasure for a quarter century, I have taken the plunge and gone electric…

Cars are very different now compared to 25 years ago, and I was blown away by the handling and agility of the Taycan GTS. So this is my build, indicated delivery end September 2023.

http://www.porsche-code.com/PRNEHFQ3

After reading a lot of comments on this forum, I think outspoken members may question some decisions made, but well, all this is highly personal. So here are my “design parameters”

- kept the outside as standard (discreet is probably not a good word in this context) as possible
- maintained the standard 20” for riding comfort and autonomy, included the sound isolating windows to make the car even more silent/comfortable, but not the black tinted windows.
- removed all external references to GTS, no need for neighbors to know
- Included the Olea Black/Atacama beige leather and wood, and included as much as possible additional leather in the interior, a pity that the “wooden steering wheel” isn’t available on the taycan
- As i am not planning to attend track-days, I did not specify the PDCC, i don’t see this as useful.
- I did include night vision, based on experience living in different countries.
- Did include innodrive with ACC and ALK and LCA to reduce driving effort in the too many structural traffic jams on the badly maintained motorways in our country, and RAS Rear Wheel Steering for agility, PASM and PTV+ are included in the GTS package.
- Also included the heat-pump (for efficiency), 22kW-AC on board charger (5-hours home-charging), the electric charging door (because it’s fancy) and the PRIM, the 150kW-DC charger is standard here.
- Ordered the wall box and PMCC charger (I understand that the European 400V version is much better than the US 110V version), with the Home Energy manager (to charge from Solar Pannels)
- Consciously Not included Porsche comfort Entry for security reasons (after bad experience with a BMW X5 in Mexico)

So in short: as «plain» as possible on the outside, as «non-plastic» as possible on the inside, and as focussed on «driving-pleasure» as possible (but also with automation for the Belgian Motorways).

Suggestions and comments are welcome.

And that was my first and introductory posting on the forum. Now crossing fingers for september.

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[Gru]

? nice configuration.

I would not take Innodrive (but keep ALK and AAC) after 25000 km on BE/FR/NL highways: speed limits are quite often wrongly read.

 

[or1]

Welcome to the forum! And to the more exclusive club of no privacy glass and much extra leather in the interior. I chose door sills and B pillars in leather, avoids some not so beautiful plastic parts then.

Each to their own of course, but I also skipped InnoDrive. I did not like how it behaved when test driving, ACC does enough for me.

 

[Tighlines]

Welcome to the forum.
That's what I love a about Porsche, so many different configurations to make the car all your own. We have the same car, yet it is completely different, for different reasons and both are perfect.
Good luck with your Sept date but if it's not, it'll be worth the wait.

 

[magnitude]

- kept the outside as standard (discreet is probably not a good word in this context) as possible

Indeed... I also tried to keep mine as boring and "discreet" as possible, going so far as removing the Turbo badge, and yet in just the past two days I twice got unwanted attention from pedestrians, just driving the short route from my home to the freeway entrance.

When I park the car in front of the house instead of in the garage, it's the most noticeable car by far in the neighborhood. I don't know what I could possibly do to change that, from the outside it's already as "basic" as possible.

Nobody cared about my Boxster, and I was dumb enough to think I could extrapolate from that experience. I think the Taycan is just a monster with its size.

 

[I888I]

thanks for your suggestions.
- consciously stayed away from 21” wheels basically for 3 reasons: more noise, reduced autonomy and vulnerability from potholes (Had lots of issues on low-profile tires on a BMW 550i). Yes, it looks nicer and fancier indeed, but that‘s not my priority.
- also consciously didn’t want to spend on Bose, as all I ever listen to in any car is just a specific radio station, so I don’t really care about music quality.

but points taken, thank you

 

[Scandinavian]

? nice configuration.

I would not take Innodrive (but keep ALK and AAC) after 25000 km on BE/FR/NL highways: speed limits are quite often wrongly read.

innodrive automatic speed adjustment can easily be switched off. Then you are in Control about the set speed limit. You just need to acknowledge the read speed sign with the stalk..

I find the system works really good on long drives as an assist. But agree the automatic speed adjustment is a disaster.

 

[R Benny Waered]

The other bonus of the less sexy 20" wheels are of course up to 10% extra range; that swung it for me and they look OK from 10 metres or 2 pints away ;-)

I like my PDCC - its decouples ARB (think you call them sway bars in USA) so a better ride straight ahead (its astonishingly good with air) and it is flatter than a flat thing when cornering. I just love that planted feeling with no corner dips on turn in. The only way you get that otherwise is VERY stiff ARB's.

Demo'd ALK for 3 months - found it useless - like driving by committee with no chairman. Awful. Love ACC.

They are cracking cars - enjoy!

 

[Därk]

The only option I regret on my GTS is not choosing the leather door sills. I have the lit 'Taycan GTS' denomination with carbon surrounding, and it just looks wonderful, but it would be fantastic wrapped up in leather rather than the black plastics. My b-pillars are in Racetex and that really does the trick.
Agree on Innodrive - I even took out ACC - have it in my Range Rover and also on previous cars - but never use it.

Enjoy your GTS!

 

[OzzieT]

Just taken delivery of my GTS. Like @Därk I spec‘d Race Tex on the b pillars and highly recommend that as it links seamlessly to the Race Tex on the inside of the roof, noting like me you are not getting the glass pano roof. Given you are a long term Porsche owner, I also think you will appreciate the metal roof. It looks way better than the glass pano IMO. You can see in this photo my car and then another Taycan in the distance with the glass pano roof.

 

[Porsche-Guru]

25 years after ordering the first generation of water cooled 911 (a ‘98 911-996 Carrera 2), and driving that car with pride and pleasure for a quarter century, I have taken the plunge and gone electric…

Cars are very different now compared to 25 years ago, and I was blown away by the handling and agility of the Taycan GTS. So this is my build, indicated delivery end September 2023.

http://www.porsche-code.com/PRNEHFQ3

After reading a lot of comments on this forum, I think outspoken members may question some decisions made, but well, all this is highly personal. So here are my “design parameters”

- kept the outside as standard (discreet is probably not a good word in this context) as possible
- maintained the standard 20” for riding comfort and autonomy, included the sound isolating windows to make the car even more silent/comfortable, but not the black tinted windows.
- removed all external references to GTS, no need for neighbors to know
- Included the Olea Black/Atacama beige leather and wood, and included as much as possible additional leather in the interior, a pity that the “wooden steering wheel” isn’t available on the taycan
- As i am not planning to attend track-days, I did not specify the PDCC, i don’t see this as useful.
- I did include night vision, based on experience living in different countries.
- Did include innodrive with ACC and ALK and LCA to reduce driving effort in the too many structural traffic jams on the badly maintained motorways in our country, and RAS Rear Wheel Steering for agility, PASM and PTV+ are included in the GTS package.
- Also included the heat-pump (for efficiency), 22kW-AC on board charger (5-hours home-charging), the electric charging door (because it’s fancy) and the PRIM, the 150kW-DC charger is standard here.
- Ordered the wall box and PMCC charger (I understand that the European 400V version is much better than the US 110V version), with the Home Energy manager (to charge from Solar Pannels)
- Consciously Not included Porsche comfort Entry for security reasons (after bad experience with a BMW X5 in Mexico)

So in short: as «plain» as possible on the outside, as «non-plastic» as possible on the inside, and as focussed on «driving-pleasure» as possible (but also with automation for the Belgian Motorways).

Suggestions and comments are welcome.

And that was my first and introductory posting on the forum. Now crossing fingers for september.

The comfort entry ‘security’ issue was fixed a few years back… (not only by Porsche but most German manufacturers)

 

[whitex]

Just taken delivery of my GTS. Like @Därk I spec‘d Race Tex on the b pillars and highly recommend that as it links seamlessly to the Race Tex on the inside of the roof, noting like me you are not getting the glass pano roof. Given you are a long term Porsche owner, I also think you will appreciate the metal roof. It looks way better than the glass pano IMO. You can see in this photo my car and then another Taycan in the distance with the glass pano roof.

I always ordered metal roofs for my cars. Once paid Porsche extra for it (sunroof came with one of the packages I selected on a 911, I paid extra to exclude it - though I don't think Porsche allows changes like this anymore). That said, with my Taycan I did not have the option, as Porsche decided to make glass roof standard in the USA on CT's at least. Now that I have it, I don't mind it at all - it makes the interior seem larger, and the sun is more annoying reflecting off of the window trim than what comes through the glass roof.

 

[Throb]

- Consciously Not included Porsche comfort Entry for security reasons (after bad experience with a BMW X5 in Mexico)

Congratulations on the new order.

You may find your car comes with Comfort Entry anyway. My Tacan came with it even though I didn't spec it, as it did for many other people on here.

 

[Gru]

? nice configuration.

I would not take Innodrive (but keep ALK and AAC) after 25000 km on BE/FR/NL highways: speed limits are quite often wrongly read.

… but after 2 recent trips in Germany and Austria, i have to say it is pretty accurate there.
I guess the recognition software has been trained there ?

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