- 100 extra horsepower? Sure, have some
- Push-to-pass provides the Taycan a 10-second, 94-hp enhance
- It’s $149,895 for the GTS, and $151,795 for the GTS Sport Turismo
Heads up: Porsche has breathed on its go-farther, charge-faster 2025 Taycan, and piled on extra of what we discover so compelling about its maiden electrical sedan.
Regardless of the way you assess it—and we’ve pushed Taycans on Porsche’s Finnish ice rink, and raced together with a Taycan Turbo GT—it’s one of many solely EVs that faithfully interprets the model’s common traits into the electrical period.
Now there’s a refreshed mannequin that underscores, bolds, and italicizes that broad assertion: the up to date 2025 Taycan GTS.
For those who thought the bottom Taycan’s road-rattling acceleration and flypaper grip couldn’t get higher, effectively it’s OK to be flawed. It didn’t have to be faster, quicker, extra settled, extra plushly geared up—or costlier—however the GTS is all that.
It’s higher residing by way of much more know-how, a stealthy wealth indicator that you just solely notice as soon as it’s blasted round you and again into the mist that swamped north Georgia after I drove one the week earlier than final.
2025 Porsche Taycan GTS
Porsche sells the GTS in each the four-door sedan and Gran Turismo wagon physique type, however in both case the facility comes from batteries and motors. Right here, it’s a normal 2-motor all-wheel-drive setup, with a extra highly effective rear motor, a retuned inverter, and higher cooling, which allow an improved charging fee of as much as 320 kw.
With a gross battery pack energy score of 105 kwh, the Taycan GTS’s output rises to just about that of the pre-2025 Taycan Turbo. It’s 597 hp till you interact launch management and overboost mode, when software program unlocks a internet 690 hp—and the automotive flings you and itself to 60 mph in 3.1 seconds, or 0.4 second faster than the earlier Taycan GTS. Porsche claims a 0.7-second dip within the quarter-mile time, too; it’s all the way down to 11.1 seconds.
With its enhanced drivetrain perks—the GTS roughly equals Diamond Medallion standing—the Taycan GTS will get the rorty programmed sounds of the Turbo model. It pumps out its synth-exhaust jam at a really noticeable crossover level, like {an electrical} pulse hitting a nerve—and whereas I don’t want the audible to quarterback my driving from the speaker system, some drivers will respect it.
I’m way more attuned with the Sport Chrono drive modes and push-to-pass whereas I thread the Taycan delicately by way of foggy, moist switchbacks and round native visitors. The place it’s extra dry and extra clear, I flick the drive-mode hub for temporary however intense stabs of energy that resect the highway with a surgeon’s hand. It’s ridiculously simple to warp previous an 18-wheeler on a again highway—even the place it actually should not be. Push-to-pass lasts for ten wonderful seconds, earlier than its gauge icon goes dim and your neurons revert to one thing nearer to regular. With its heroic sweep of torque, it consumes dawdling shitboxes like I eat Swedish ginger cookies and espresso. With out mercy.
Porsche hasn’t confirmed EPA-rated vary but, however the Taycan GTS does have a frugal drive mode that’s so parsimonious with power, it shuts off the passenger-side digital show. Sport Turismo wagons will probably be rated barely decrease, resulting from extra aero drag. Each will cost from 10-80% in 18 minutes.
2025 Porsche Taycan GTS
Porsche Taycan GTS: An EV scalpel
The place the GTS makes its stand is when it corners. It goes pell-mell into the knotty 15-degree hairpins that guarantee Atlanta stays at bay from the one-stoplight cities that dot north Georgia. It may take hours to go just a few dozen miles by standard means.
The Taycan shouldn’t be standard. To the usual air suspension and 20-inch wheels of the bottom Taycan, the GTS dabs on an accessible Dynamic pack with 21-inch wheels on summer time tires (monitor treads could be spec’ed, too), in addition to rear-wheel steering and energetic anti-roll bars, which counters physique lean and lends extra stability in sweeping bends and kinky curls of pavement alike.
With each this “Lively Journey Management” and carbon-ceramic brakes, the GTS performed the November rain like a idiot. Perhaps it didn’t want the expensive brake improve—we’ve discovered the Taycan’s cast-iron items simply swell, in any case—however the suspension work presents the large, heavy EV a lightness of notion. In its normal drive mode, it fends off reasonably bumpy pavement with assertive damping however saves its finest comebacks for these switchbacks. Flipped into Sport+ mode, the slightest of shimmies works its approach by way of the steering column whereas the Taycan GTS tosses the final little bit of forgiveness it has for unmaintained roads. It does not lose its endurance and fear itself throughout the asphalt—it simply refuses to interact in foolishness and tracks fearsomely flat.
Porsche elevated EV trip and dealing with with the Taycan, and the GTS has amplified that win, diploma by diploma, with stouter however extra scalpel-like steering, and a trip resilient sufficient to ponder for on a regular basis use. Amongst electrical automobiles, solely Lucid and Hyundai have sorted out the intersection of EV heft and pleasant dealing with—as long as you inform the Taycan’s energetic lane management to knock it off and to cease nibbling the automotive again towards the centerline even while you’re not crossing double-yellow traces.
2025 Porsche Taycan GTS
Porsche Taycan GTS: Bummer time
The Taycan’s four-seat inside shrink-wraps round bigger folks, and its 18-way adaptive sport seats get as snuggly as you’d like by twiddling with seat-side and display controls. The again seats stay extra of a suggestion for anybody in D1 sports activities or on the big-and-tall finish of the dimensions spectrum, however you may warmth the rear seats for individuals who match. The trunk? Properly, she’s small.
Nonetheless, the Taycan’s intimacy finally ends up charming most drivers over. Wrapped in Race-Tex artificial suede, the GTS cabin has a little bit of concept-car ethos, as stripped down and touchscreen-driven as it’s. Artificial leather-based comes normal however after all, Porsche will leather-based up something you need, or paint it, sew it, or encase it in carbon-fiber. You may watch your {dollars} fly away by way of the tiny Band-Help that passes for a rear window.
The Taycan GTS received’t enchantment to skinflints, not on the base value of $149,895 together with $1,995 in vacation spot. It does include 20-inch wheels with summer time tires, 18-way energy entrance seats, the air suspension, Sport Chrono, a heated steering wheel, parking sensors and energetic lane management, ambient lighting, rear facet airbags, and wi-fi smartphone charging.
As examined, the Taycan GTS I drove had $40,310 in choices. That includes $2,840 for its Slate Gray Neo paint, $2,920 for the 21-inch RS Spyder wheels and summer time tires, $5,030 for a grey inside with 18-way entrance seats and heated rear seats, $7,150 for Porsche Lively Journey and $1,340 for rear-axle steering, just a few thousand for Race-Tex and carbon and aluminum trim, $1,710 for LED matrix headlights, about six grand for adaptive cruise management and a surround-view digital camera system and a head-up show, $1,490 for a passenger-side show display, and a free 12 months of 30-minute charging at Electrify America.
Effectivity freaks nonetheless will set their sights on the bottom Taycan and its range-maxing setup, whereas pace freaks can lust after the even faster, quicker, and costlier Turbo GT. The GTS places all of it within the steadiness—even when its brain-shaking acceleration and grip put nearly nothing else into rational perspective.
Porsche paid for a lodge room and a top-off on the Taycan’s battery so we may deliver you this take a look at drive evaluate.
