You can do everything without the wheel by customising your PCM Home Screen and adding the drive mode widget - saves having to remember which direction to turn the wheel.I hate the clock, don’t care about heritage..I’m buying a new EV so don’t expect heritage features. I purely specced sport chrono for the steering wheel button which I agree with OP, looks rubbish, but is very handy
Having driven 5000+ km on the German autobahn the functionality I miss in Sport Chrono is the ability to go to Sport or Sport Plus during 20 - 30 seconds for a brisk overtake and not having the PIRM starting to recalculate the charging stops. I'm only using 20 - 30 seconds of electric power and will then return to Normal or Range mode, it should be good.As you might know I don’t like Sports Chrono. Not as much as I don’t like Sports Sound…. But nearly.
Why do I have it? It’s free, or at least included, on my nice new ish GTS. The functionality improvement, to me, is limited. The only reason people got this on other models was to get launch control.
All Taycans have launch control. Sports mode is enough for me. Sports plus is for the Nurburgring. I don’t go there and I don’t have cohones the size of wassermelones.
I find the tacked on steering wheel nob ugly. Why not incorporate it into the steering wheel buttons?
Agree.It's Porsche motorsports heritage. I'm glad I was able to take the Compass option- redundant with the digital cockpit, but a much more interesting feature than the chrono option IMO.
As ever with aftermarket stuff probably prohibitively expensive.I mostly agree with OP, although the functionality of the steering wheel knob is ok (even though it is ugly).
But: does anybody know if the clock can be replaced with a compass as an aftermaket job?
Wish I had ordered the posh clock. It’s stunningly expensive but so much nicer to look at.i ordered with the clock - analog and love it! i also like the knob - make switching modes very simple and easy.
Audi bottled it. Instead of sticking with the lower screen like the A8. Q8. Etron and Q8 Etron they the replaced it with buttons from the A4.I'd much rather have an easily-accessible physical control, than have to interface with a touch screen to change modes.
...same with AC vents...to be honest. Not enough, apparently, to choose an e-tron GT over the Taycan.
It’s ‘only’ £476 if you upgrade from the GTS interior pack. I didn’t go for that.Agree on the Clock. Hate it! Of all Porsche models its most bulbous and pronounced in the Taycan. Other models its ever so slightly more integrated into the dash. I, therefore, omitted the Design Clock from the GTS interior and stuck with the "free" Chrono Stopwatch. Not parting with an extra £476 for something I don't like.
The steering wheel knob is essential though.
That’s the daft thing.Like mentioned above for the CT it is different. I have the compass that also shows elevations which is nice when driving in the mountains. And for the CT the button on the central screen is gravel mode not sport mode. The main raison I chose SC is the easy switch between normal and sport mode and second the sport steering wheel. I only use normal and sport mode.
What do you mean by ‘adding the drive mode widget’?You can do everything without the wheel by customising your PCM Home Screen and adding the drive mode widget - saves having to remember which direction to turn the wheel.