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Porsche Taycan revealed: $150,900 base price, 0-60 MPH in 3 seconds
- vfclists 7y agoSurely they could have come up with a better name? "Taycan" - whats that supposed mean?!!? Is industry running out of suitable names?
- kazinator 7y agoThey came up with a few names that were better, but they were all taycan already.
- jjtheblunt 7y agoThat made me laugh.
- Rebelgecko 7y agoIt's about 60% marketing fluff, but there's some interesting info about the naming process here: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/porsche-taycan-name-meaning-soul-spirited-young-horse-electric-sports-car-electromobility-emobility-16292.html https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/porsche-taycan-name...
- jjtheblunt 7y ago"Taycan" supposedly is Turkish for "steed" referring to the horse on the Porsche emblem...or so says the internet.
- electriclove 7y agoThey even made a video on How to Pronounce Taycan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8oixMu703s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8oixMu703s
- ebg13 7y ago> "Taycan" - whats that supposed mean?!!? It's how you say "toucan" in Scots.
- AcerbicZero 7y agoThis is pretty much what everyone expected to Porsche to do, especially with how they've been pumping out Macan's, Cayenne's and Panamara's. It's a vehicle which will sell based on the perception that Porsche builds high quality performance vehicles, which is at least marginally true, although things like this continue to stray from that. Really, I'm only surprised Porsche is letting their brand be diluted even further, when they could have had a car like this sold under the Audi label instead. That would also have allowed for a much more reasonable cost comparison between this and the Tesla S, since you can get one of those for well under 100k, and the Audi brand has a much wider price spread than the Porsche lineup.
- x0x0 7y ago0-60 in 3 seconds, 600 foot pounds of torque, and awd sounds pretty high performance to me?
- tomatotomato37 7y agoThat is true, but more in an Audi V10 R8 than a Porsche sort of way. Audi has always been more of a GT brand to Porsche's light sport car; with the recent non-traditional Porsche's been released VW risks diluting its marques in the same way GM ended up doing with Pontiac and Oldsmobile minivans during the 90s. I have the feeling the only reason it's a four door sedan is so that's always included in rankings with the Model 3; it would most certainly be faster without the extra row of seats but then it would end up being compared with electric sport coupes the general public has never heard of instead.
- mckinney 7y agoWait. Wasn't it Porsche that started all this with the Cayenne SUV? Porsche has always been near the bottom of the pedigree e.g., compared with Ferrari, Lambo, McLaren, etc., but still they are considered supercar-ish status. It's a slippery slope. Now the Italians with SUVs manufactured from Maserati and Lambo and soon Ferrari(purosangue)! Nothing is sacred.
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- Rebelgecko 7y agoI'm kinda bummed they're going with the trend of "touchscreen all the things" for the interior. They even have an option for an addition touchscreen above the glove box. The UI itself looks fine and I understand that a touchscreens make it easier to iterate the interface. I just wish that they had physical controls for certain things like the AC. Using the voice control to say "Hey Porsche, increase the driver side temperature by 2 degrees" is just awkward.
- mckinney 7y agoI hear you! I have vehicles with mostly touchscreen (maserati) and mostly tactile (bmw). In my view touchscreens SUCK for automotive use. But don't take my word for it. Read up on Mazda's pivot back to tactile and the research to back it. Good move! https://thenewswheel.com/mazda-eliminates-touch-screens/ https://thenewswheel.com/mazda-eliminates-touch-screens/
- hndamien 7y agoIt doesn't help that automotive latency for touch screens is incredibly bad. It it had smartphone level response maybe it would be a better starting point for comparison. I'd love to see something like this, even in a Tesla. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbuk3jizGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbuk3jizGM
- electriclove 7y agoThat price is gnarly and the comparison chart at Tech Crunch is pretty eye opening: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/porsche-taycan-vs-tesla-model-s-spec-for-spec-price-for-price/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/porsche-taycan-vs-tesla-mo... It would be great if they can sell 25k/year in the US like the Model S. No chance of that until they introduce the lower priced variants presumably next year. I'm skeptical of their commitment to actually sell EVs though so I hope this isn't a case of 'Porsche doesn't see enough demand, so we aren't going to make a cheaper EV'.
- clouddrover 7y agoThey've already announced that the Porsche Macan (their most popular model) will be going all-electric: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18240862/porsche-macan-electric-ev-production-taycan https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18240862/porsche-macan-el...
- electriclove 7y agoHope it actually happens. I'm jaded by announcements from the legacy car makers.
- clouddrover 7y agoIt will happen. Volkswagen Group will be the biggest EV maker in the world purely because they're spending the most money: https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vws-91b-spend-evs-outpaces-investment-rivals https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vws-91b-spend-evs-out... Five of their brands (VW, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Porsche) either have EVs out now or will have soon. Their other high-end brands (Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti) will have EVs eventually. I'm not sure what the plans are with Ducati but I imagine they will release electric motorbikes soon enough.
- shsbdncudx 7y agoThey’re really playing a different game to Tesla. This is Porsche, what’s special now will be in Audi, then Volkswagen, then Skoda...