The Porsche Taycan Turbo GT’s Sub 2 Second 0-60 Time Is The Quickest Ever

How quick will cars be in the future? Well, how quickly do you want to go? It turns out we have a new benchmark, because the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is now the quickest car from zero-to-60 mph that Car And Driver has ever tested, logging a sub-two-second time. That’s absolutely head-bending stuff, and it comes from a four-door sedan, not something shaped like a wedge.

At a Car And Driver-reported 5,203 pounds, the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT isn’t the lightest electric performance car out there. And with 1,019 horsepower on tap, it’s not the most potent electric sedan on the market either. The Lucid Air Sapphire makes a simply absurd 1,234 horsepower, and we’ve consulted with top mathematicians who’ve confirmed that’s a bigger number than the top-dog Taycan’s output.

That doesn’t matter, however, because with its mechanical limited-slip rear differential, a two-speed gearbox inside the rear drive unit, and hypercar horsepower, the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT pulled one undeniably absurd figure in Car And Driver testing. Keep in mind, the quoted zero-to-60 mph time from Porsche is 2.2 seconds, but shit, have you seen how large the horses are in Stuttgart? Yeah, this thing laid down a zero-to-60 mph time of 1.9 seconds, and that’s beyond ludicrous. Quicker than a Ferrari SF90, quicker than a Porsche 918, quicker than a Lucid Air Sapphire, quicker than a Tesla Model S Plaid. Oh, and it’s not some ridiculous fudging of numbers either, as Car And Driver reports:

This record-setting performance was not just squeaking by, either, for example, a 1.949-second run that happens to round down to 1.9. Our results are always an average of the quickest runs in each direction to take out any effect from wind or several other factors, and the Taycan’s two passes were 1.898 seconds in one direction and 1.910 in the other. Bam.

Average those out, and you get precisely 1.904 seconds. Yeah, that’s as good as 1.9 seconds, a perfectly fair way of rounding down. And would you really notice the difference between 1.900 and 1.904 seconds?

On its way to 60 mph (deducting one foot of rollout because you’d only attempt a balls-out zero-to-60 mph run at a drag strip, right?), this Taycan Turbo GT logged an average — an average — of 1.44 g of acceleration. You could hurl yourself off the top of the Burj Khalifa with a parachute strapped to your back like you’re in a Red Bull promo video and not experience acceleration that violent.

So, other than the fact that this family sedan has more horsepower than a Bugatti Veyron and the smooth delivery of electric torque at its disposal, what else helped the Taycan Turbo GT achieve such heroic numbers? Well, the test car that Car And Driver ran came on Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS tires, which feature an absurdly sticky treadwear rating and are exclusively designed to maximize grip on dry, reasonably warm pavement. True trackday stuff, but then, would you really expect anything else from what is arguably Porsche’s most insane current offering?

However, this wasn’t the mental Weissach Package car that cleaves a rear seat and all related accouterments from the Taycan Turbo GT to shed an alleged 165 pounds over this two-row example. That’s roughly the same amount of weight as me and two slightly tubby, slightly clumsy cats, although it would be cruel and unusual to subject cats to such longitudinal acceleration. (Unless they’re orange, because those weird little critters are absolutely fearless and I adore them for that.)

In fact, the Car And Driver crew reckons they may be able to pull a 1.8-second zero-to-60 mph time out of a Weissach Package car. If you want to simulate a fraction of that violence that at home, those with no sense of mortality can absolve us of any liability, place a tire on top of several early-1990s single-stage airbags, hook up a car battery, have a friend connect the negative and hold the fuck on. Wait a second. I’m getting summoned to the legal department for that suggestion. Oh dear.

So, what’s it like to experience this level of acceleration in person? Stay tuned. I’m driving a Taycan Turbo GT later this month. Apologies to my spleen in advance.

(Photo credits: Porsche)

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