moab

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/busin...ver/index.html

RDMcG

yep...just read it. I think I am just too old for this stuff. 1000HP launch control?.... I have had launch control on a variety of cars from Porsche and BMW, and have never used the thing once. I did try it on a couple of cars at Porsche demo events. Works brilliantly if you want to tear the tires off but for the life of me I cannot understand what it is for. I have driven the current Taycan Turbo S and had it for a week. I can say that it is brilliantly fast, great roadholding, and for me personally not a car I really want.

I expect that those younger people who get into EVS early will have a very different attitude which is fair enough, but a 1000hp Taycan is not really something that excites me.

911 Rod

What is the point of having a saloon without back seats?

.2PDK

I have never been more excited about the future...

RDMcG

Beats me, but of course I have a 911 with no frunk or back seats. Would be good if you had a very fast dog I suppose...lots of space.

RDMcG

Video:

uniquenamehere

Imagine what they could do if they dumped 3000 pounds of batteries...

RDMcG

Hard to plug it into the mains

Tj40

Yes but it would be really fast until you ran out of extension cord!

theiceman

From the car company that brought you two models of car , one a standard and one a turbo , that both had turbos in them !

Now comes an electric car .... that's a Turbo .....

JTT

DDzPorsche

That is what happens when the marketing department takes over.

RDMcG

Well, they once had the Turbo Look option.....with some good synthesized sound they can add back some interior excitement, and call it the TurboSound.........

SToronto

weissach one doesn’t have back seats.

Get the non weissach, it has back seats. 0.1 second slower.

#1SomeGuy

Are we still whining about this?