Building a Taycan GT

[tigerbalm]

wow - limited options - $250,255.00 - wow

Still less than a Turbo S with no option in Ireland (and probably most of EU).

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[MissionE]

Agree to disagree .. I mean having too much performance is a common issue with a lot of supercars and even my Taycan Turbo S is silly fast for how heavy it is. However not having rear seats for a GT with four doors is just plain stupid. If you want to do a 2 seat variant that’s cool and fine by me but just make it 2 doors not 4…..

That B-pillar is one of the main structural necessities for making the car work; along with the battery length. So a coupe would be pretty out of the question.

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

Agree to disagree .. I mean having too much performance is a common issue with a lot of supercars and even my Taycan Turbo S is silly fast for how heavy it is. However not having rear seats for a GT with four doors is just plain stupid. If you want to do a 2 seat variant that’s cool and fine by me but just make it 2 doors not 4…..

The following are true:
- Taycan turbo GT has 4 seats
- Taycan turbo GT w/ WP has slightly more bonkers perf, 2 seats
- the price is the same

So what, exactly, is the problem? On other 911 models, current or past/historical, the 'lightweight' models could have their removed rear seats/radio/etc. re-added at no cost. These Taycans aren't 2 different models, it's the same car with an optional, no-cost package.

 

[daveo4EV]

The following are true:
- Taycan turbo GT has 4 seats
- Taycan turbo GT w/ WP has slightly more bonkers perf, 2 seats
- the price is the same

So what, exactly, is the problem? On other 911 models, current or past/historical, the 'lightweight' models could have their removed rear seats/radio/etc. re-added at no cost. These Taycans aren't 2 different models, it's the same car with an optional, no-cost package.

the US configurator only shows the 2 seat version from what I can tell.

 

[RCorsa]

I’ve had 4 911 TTS in the last 10 years (991.1 991.2 coupe and cabriolet and a 992 cabriolet) I can tell you with a wife and two kids how many times I’ve used the rear seats in over 10 years. - zero. But it’s a two door sports car.

Taycan is a four door four seat GT car. If they wanted to make a lightweight version without the rear seats great just make it a 2 door coupe and it would serve the same purpose as my 911 or f8. Keeping the rear doors just seems lazy and they could have done better. After all the Taycan is nearly 5 years old so they could have planned this and made a 2 and four door variant.

 

[refazi]

I’ve had 4 911 TTS in the last 10 years (991.1 991.2 coupe and cabriolet and a 992 cabriolet) I can tell you with a wife and two kids how many times I’ve used the rear seats in over 10 years. - zero. But it’s a two door sports car.

Taycan is a four door four seat GT car. If they wanted to make a lightweight version without the rear seats great just make it a 2 door coupe and it would serve the same purpose as my 911 or f8. Keeping the rear doors just seems lazy and they could have done better. After all the Taycan is nearly 5 years old so they could have planned this and made a 2 and four door variant.

it's coming.. hint it's gonna be called Cayman EV

 

[RCorsa]

The WP is actually a cheeper car if optioned than the standard GT aThere are very few available options for the WP.

If I was getting one I’d want the standard 4 seater but with the carbon bucket seats (not available) rear spoiler (also not available) but with deviated color stitching and the burmiester stereo and two charging ports. The spec I built was 263k and I bet if you could easily get up to 300k if you could do parts of the WP on the four seater…..hmmm

 

[jhiemenz]

I'm sooo bummed- I was all ready to jump from a tacan turbo 4S (in a '22) to a '25 turbo gts (not the WP). But the lack of one feature that I use all the time and would really miss...massage seats. Not an option on the turbo gts. I know, I know...but we likes what we likes and its nice to have on the drive home from a stressful day. Maybe they'll reconsider.

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

Ok, which one of you degenerates is “M”?

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

I’ve had 4 911 TTS in the last 10 years (991.1 991.2 coupe and cabriolet and a 992 cabriolet) I can tell you with a wife and two kids how many times I’ve used the rear seats in over 10 years. - zero. But it’s a two door sports car.

Taycan is a four door four seat GT car. If they wanted to make a lightweight version without the rear seats great just make it a 2 door coupe and it would serve the same purpose as my 911 or f8. Keeping the rear doors just seems lazy and they could have done better. After all the Taycan is nearly 5 years old so they could have planned this and made a 2 and four door variant.

You seem to be willing to spend vast sums on cars. Evidently that doesn’t bring a greater understanding of how car design or manufacturing actually works.

The cost of developing and certifying a Taycan coupe would have probably been 3-4 orders of magnitude greater than the most optimistic sales total. This GT is a minimum-effort limited edition model, meant to rekindle interest in the model (and meant for customers who spend vast sums on cars). Please note the plain GT (non-WP) does have rear seats, to give those rear doors a purpose.

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

the US configurator only shows the 2 seat version from what I can tell.

 

[d00d]

They could make a two door, but it would look odd like the two door Dodge Daytona, because of the wheelbase needed for the battery pack length as MissionE mentioned.
Porsche could shorten it and stack more modules in an abbreviated rear seat area, but they usually don't go that far with their GT cars.
I've been waiting for a middle rear engine GT3 for so long I'd forgotten until just now.

 

[FlyingPoint]

Seems to me that this car is Porsche's answer to falling profitability. Sell a few thousand of these and they can make up for the reduction in their operating profit.
Released today - Source CNBC:
"The German luxury automaker said it expects an operating return on sales of between 15% and 17% in 2024, down from the 18% margin notched in 2023 and 2022."

 

[RAHRCR]

I believe that neither history nor time will be kind to this car. It belongs in the Porsche museum as a technical achievement for the Porsche engineers. Objectively, they did something quite interesting here.

However, the difference between this Taycan and the other museum cars that will be sitting along side this Taycan is that the ICE cars can sit indefinitely with minimal degradation.

 

[FmrSapper]

Dear Porsche: Build this.

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