I can honesty say I am more than happy with my CT build - never was into the Alcantera look, power diff. irrelevant to me as minimal, LCD roof would be nice, non-essential but no interest in waiting another year etc. The increased price (my equivalent 4S build in ST is over 17K more!), clearly also a neg. to me. Beautiful car of course but def not as conflicted as perhaps I thought I might beI just specced a Sport Turismo with the options I want and it is about £6k dearer than my current CT order.
I quite like the GTS wheels but prefer the Sports Turismo "chariot wheels" and prefer the unnecessary compass option to the unnecessary stopwatch detail on the dash.
I like racetex but not the colour choices
Combined with the extra 20mm ride height for its better ride and gravel mode for farm tracks I still prefer the CT personally.
- of course if the geometry at base of ST arches diff to CT even this swap may not work. Also suspect that lower trim replacement would climb to or well north of 10K so prob a waste given you can paint the current CT trim to mimc the ST look!
Pretty much done the same, dealer was on the phone at 9am this morning encouraging me to get my Porsche code to him. I have asked for no earlier than a MY23 delivery to give me time to get out of my current lease vehicle but have gone ahead with a GTS sport turismo. One thing I noticed was with the std GTS interior I could not find where to select a heated steering wheel….so for now selected leather.
It's heated as std I think (check the std options list at the bottom of the config).
What is the range on the GTS…I can’t find it.
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I have specified a non-black interior and not the glass roof so neither the fancy roof nor the racetex were tempting but I already specified torque vectoring rear wheel steer and active anti roll bars.I can honesty say I am more than happy with my CT build - never was into the Alcantera look, power diff. irrelevant to me as minimal, LCD roof would be nice, non-essential but no interest in waiting another year etc. The increased price (my equivalent 4S build in ST is over 17K more!), clearly also a neg. to me. Beautiful car of course but def not as conflicted as perhaps I thought I might be
TBH, my biggest question is if and when you could replace the CT's lower skirts and front/rear trim with the ST trim and remove the CT plastic arches to reveal the already painted 'sedan/ST' arches beneath
If I understand this correctly, those numbers (which are maxima) suggest that- if the torque figure is correct and not the expected 750Nm- the performance gain over the 4S is due to the rear motor (borrowed from the Turbo) having its power delivery tailed off as the revs rise. It would be nice to see torque graphs v rpm, ideally separately by front and rear motors, with and without overboost, for all the Taycan variants, to understand what is going on. I assume that there's a lot of artificial limiting of power output relevant to the full capability of the systems, in order to achieve Porsche's desired performance differential between the variants.The GTS just came up on the configurator in Germany
- power up from 420 kW by 20 kW to 440 kW compared to the 4S -> a bit lame
- torque up from 650 Nm by 200 Nm to 850 Nm -> extremely interesting
That's exactly what they did. They took the complete drive train of a Taycan Turbo and put it into the GTS. The torque stays the same as the Turbo (850nm) but they limited the power with launch control from 680PS to 598PS. And without launch control from 625PS to 517PS.
