Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package Sucks

[007]

Not that my opinion matters, but the Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package completely sucks. Saw it today at the dealership and…

- No rear seats on a 4 door car is lame. And that carbon in the back is so flimsy that you can’t put anything on it (ie suitcase).
- truck impractical with that hump and non fold.
- no leather on doors or dash.
- standard push charger flap feels cheap.
- door sills cheap plastic.
- no trunk close button.
- ugly purple. In person, this color sucks.
- no sunroof.
- no sport chrono?!?!
- charger port only on the right side.
- expensive as f-ck.

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[Jasper4S]

A track focussed Taycan, but without sports chrono. I don’t get it.

 

[j.w.s]

Not that my opinion matters, but the Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package completely sucks. Saw it today at the dealership and…

- No rear seats on a 4 door car is lame. And that carbon in the back is so flimsy that you can’t put anything on it (ie suitcase).
- truck impractical with that hump and non fold.
- no leather on doors or dash.
- standard push charger flap feels cheap.
- door sills cheap plastic.
- no trunk close button.
- ugly purple. In person, this color sucks.
- no sunroof.
- no sport chrono?!?!
- charger port only on the right side.
- expensive as f-ck.

The Weissach package costs $33,500 on the GT3, but it costs $0 on the Taycan Turbo GT. Huh?

Porsche options are notoriously profitable. All of that custom carbon costs Porsche serious money to produce, so I am sure that Porsche makes LESS profit when someone orders the Taycan Weissach option. Porsche can't be too worried about getting too many orders!
I take all of this as acknowledgement that the package has no value to almost all Taycan buyers and exists primarily so that Porsche has "bragging rights" when quoting its performance numbers. A few people order it, Porsche says that its Ring times therefore count, and we all move on.

A four-door car with two usable seats - Nonsense! One wonders if, in future years, a Weissach car will be worth less because it's such such a silly configuration, or worth more because it's so rare. I want to say the former, but then I remember that it's Porsche collectors we're talking about here.

So for me - and I suspect most people:
Taycan Turbo GT: A glorious Taycan, but even faster? Yes please!
WIth Weissach: Nope!

 

[bigkraig]

we get a new sedan with the rear seats removed and a killer ring time

and then we get a new gt3 with added rear seats and no official ring time

sad days

 

[A.Mayor]

A track focussed Taycan, but without sports chrono. I don’t get it.

Porsche Track Precision App can be used to gather track performance data …

The Turbo GT is very much a demonstration of the “state-of-the-art” more than anything else.

 

[Brombaer1971]

Simple solution: Don‘t order the Weissach Package if you don‘t like it.

 

[Boss Hogg]

GT cars are not focused on comfort or practicalities, surprised there is no roll cage.

 

[tigerbalm]

Metal roof Taycan's look way better than the horrible looking glass roof. Here in Ireland less than 5% of Taycan's sold have the metal roof. These are the best looking Taycan's and I'm responsible for a good chunk of that 5%

 

[007]

Simple solution: Don‘t order the Weissach Package if you don‘t like it.

Yes, thank you for the excellent suggestion… I didn’t think about that.

 

[007]

GT cars are not focused on comfort or practicalities, surprised there is no roll cage.

Come on, no rear seats on a 4 door… and no option to add them in… that’s just stupid.

 

[n3ophyte]

Come on, no rear seats on a 4 door… and no option to add them in… that’s just stupid.

But … it’s a 2.4 tonne “track focused“ variant!

 

[tigerbalm]

Come on, no rear seats on a 4 door… and no option to add them in… that’s just stupid.

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It all comes across as "low effort".

 

[BigBob]

Does it have electric windows in the back?

 

[f1eng]

- no leather on doors or dash.
- standard push charger flap feels cheap.
- door sills cheap plastic.
- no trunk close button.
- no sunroof.
- no sport chrono?!?!
- charger port only on the right side.

All to reduce weight, and in the case of the standard charger flap to improve aero.

I would never consider an EV for a track car myself but what they have done here all makes sense for maximising performance of the Taycan IMO.

 

[d00d]

I like it, my dog could sit in the rear storage compartment.

It does have SC, just without the dash wart;

Sport Chrono Package
Includes:
Sport Plus mode with performance-oriented tuning of chassis, Porsche Active Aerodynamics (PAA) and temperature control of the Performance Battery Plus
Integrated Sport Chrono tile with recording of lap times and telemetry data, including the possibility to add your own tracks as well as analyze sectors and laps
Attack Mode: releases up to 160 hp of additional power for a duration of approx. 10 s
PSM Sport mode
Track Endurance Mode
Note: Attack Mode requires greater than 30% battery state of charge and battery temperature greater than 50° F. Optimized availability at low temperatures in Sport and Sport Plus driving modes. Excludes the dashboard mounted analog stopwatch.

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