Could this be the most important new Porsche since the 911? International Bureau Chief Angus MacKenzie got an early look at the all-electric Taycan
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00:00 I can't tell you a lot about this car, but I've been for a ride in it, and I can tell
00:07 you one thing.
00:08 It's very fast.
00:15 This is the Porsche Taycan.
00:17 It's the all-new electric Porsche that's going to go on sale later this year.
00:21 All Porsche design cues along here, and right to the front here.
00:25 When you're sitting in the car, looking out the front, you'd swear you're in a 911, because
00:29 you can just see these two fenders off in either side.
00:32 When you come up to the top here, more evidence of the 911 DNA in this thing.
00:37 Look at the way the cabin comes in like that, and gives you those big, voluptuous hips on
00:40 this car.
00:41 It's a very good-looking thing.
00:43 It explodes out of corners, rockets along straights, without making much noise.
00:49 It's got modes.
00:50 There's a normal mode, sport mode, and sport plus mode, and the sound changes in sport
00:54 plus mode, and it changes the suspension settings like it does in regular Porsches.
00:58 It has the triple chamber air springs, and the 48-volt anti-roll system that we've seen
01:04 similar in the Panamera.
01:05 If you look down here, you can see it's got the Porsche carbon ceramic brakes, which as
01:10 we know, are the best stoppers in the business.
01:14 The tyres, these wheels, 21-inch wheels.
01:17 There'll be other sizes, other wheel designs available, of course.
01:20 It drives like a Porsche.
01:22 Even from the passenger seat, you can feel this thing is buttoned down, and it punches
01:26 you out of corners like you wouldn't believe.
01:28 The car has two motors on all-wheel drive, one motor up front, one motor at the rear.
01:33 Ride quality is brilliant, even though it's very buttoned down and tight.
01:36 Now, of course, the key question everyone's going to ask is, "Well, what about the range?"
01:39 Now, no official EPA numbers out whatsoever, but having been in the car and looked on the
01:44 gauge, even with this thing being driven really, really hard, we look like we're going to be
01:48 getting somewhere between 235 and 245 miles range.
01:53 That means you won't have to use one of these charge points.
01:55 Oh, and Porsche's got another one on the other side, so you don't have to guess or jockey
01:58 for position when you're coming into a charging station.
02:01 This car is probably going to be one of the most significant Porsches of all time.
02:06 It's the first all-electric Porsche from a company that's acclaimed for building ultra-high-performance
02:11 cars.
02:12 I think this is the first electric vehicle from anyone that is going to make even the
02:16 Tesla fanboys think again.
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