The Violently Purple 1,092-Horsepower Porsche Taycan Turbo GT Looks Like Bottled Electric Insanity

For the past few years, the big winner in the electric sedan performance wars has been California. Between the Tesla Model S Plaid and the Lucid Air Sapphire, California has been the exclusive home turf of the latest generation of unfathomably quick roadgoing business jets. Until now. That’s because a certain German sports car maker is putting its foot down and firing a 1,092-horsepower salvo in California’s general direction. The Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is poised to be a ruthless destroyer of straights and corners, and Porsche has pulled every trick out of its sleeve to score production electric car lap records at Laguna Seca and the Nürburgring.

Let’s start with that herculean output of 1,092 horsepower. It’s a great headline figure, but it’s worth noting that power is only possible due to peak output calculation and Porsche temporarily cranking the knobs off with something called Attack Mode, which dumps 120 kW at the sedan’s electric motors. First off, Attack Mode is an excellent name. Secondly, that’s an entire Porsche 944 worth of power available at the push of a button.

The results sound absolutely profound — zero-to-60 mph in a manufacturer-claimed 2.2 seconds without the lightweight Weissach package and 2.1 seconds with it, and zero-to-124 mph in a claimed 6.6 seconds without the Weissach package and 6.4 seconds with it. Keep in mind, Porsche seconds are a little bit shorter than actual seconds, so don’t be surprised to see the big car magazines beat those figures in instrumented testing.

Of course, sustaining big output is always harder than cranking out big numbers like Soulja Boy, so Porsche’s gone to town on the nitty-gritty bits beneath the skin, including the inverters. In Porsche’s words:

In both Taycan Turbo GT models, pulse inverters with a maximum current of 900 amperes are used on the rear axle. These deliver even more power and torque than the 600-ampere pulse inverter in the Taycan Turbo S. For better efficiency, silicon carbide is also used as the semiconductor material in the pulse inverter. This significantly reduces switching losses in the PWR and enables higher switching frequencies.

Translation: Beefier inverters made of more efficient semiconductors can handle more current, cycle current faster, and therefore allow for better performance. Car go fast, indeed.

Of course, there’s more to the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT than just bonkers output. It rolls on forged 21-inch wheels with spokes milled down for two purposes — reducing unsprung weight and enhancing brake cooling. Speaking of brakes, even in the presence of carbon ceramic discs, optimized braking components including lightened calipers shave more than 4.4 additional pounds. Add in carbon fiber bucket seats and clever touches like deletion of the soft-close function on the tailgate latch and a weight-optimized trunk liner, and the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT weighs 165 pounds less than a regular Taycan Turbo S. Oh, but because this is Porsche, the engineers didn’t stop there.

Say hello to the Weissach Package, a 190-proof, Ozempic-prescribed Arkham Asylum alumnus variant of the Taycan Turbo GT. It’s a further 154 pounds lighter than the regular Taycan Turbo GT — a total of 319 pounds lighter than a regular Taycan Turbo S — and you get the sense that instead of just looking for clever optimizations, Porsche just took everything reasonably removeable and threw it in the bin. This means no rear seat and no screams from the rear seat, no rear speakers, no floor mats, no analog clock, no driver’s side charging port (there’s still one on the passenger side), and substantially less sound insulation. Porsche’s GT division then added all that weight and more back, but only when moving. A proper rear wing is said to help generate 485 pounds of downforce, and it’s this combination of reduced weight and increased downforce that’s nabbed the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT Weissach Package a couple of records.

Last month, Porsche wheelman Lars Kern laid down a 1:27.87 lap around Laguna Seca, and that’s not just quicker than any production-spec electric car, that’s only about three tenths off of the Ferrari Challenge lap record, set in a race-spec 488 Challenge Evo. Add in a Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time of 7:07.55 — 17.681 seconds quicker than a Tesla Model S Plaid with the track package — and the Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package is also the quickest production sedan to ever lap the Nordschleife.

At this point, I know what you’re thinking: Is any of this particularly practical or of much use in the real world? Over a Taycan Turbo S, probably not. However, as an engineering achievement, the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is spectacular. It’s shown up to a tri-motor gun fight with two electric motors and sheer grit, and it’s right in the mix. It also comes in an exclusive Purple Sky metallic, and that’s a win right there. As a bonus, the Taycan Turbo GT both with and without the Weissach package starts at a price $17,005 cheaper than a Lucid Air Sapphire. While $231,995 including freight isn’t cheap by any means, a penny saved is a penny earned. Expect deliveries to start this Spring, and with four-door practicality and a WLTP range forecast of 344 miles, I just want to give a shoutout to the heroes planning on daily driving these.

(Photo credits: Porsche)

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