2022 Porsche Taycan GTS Sport Turismo First Drive: An EV That Pretends It Isn’t One
Auto123 gets in a first drive of the 2022 Porsche Taycan GTS, Sport Turismo version.
Rome, Italy - “GTS”. Those three letters have meant a few things over the years – gran turismo spyder, gran turismo sport, etc. -- and they’ve graced the flanks of a few cars. The Dodge Viper. The Ferrari 308. The Nissan Skyline. The…Porsche Taycan?
Nope, your eyes aren’t deceiving you; for 2022, Porsche has added a GTS trim to the Taycan EV lineup, meaning the German automaker now has a GTS version of every car it sells.
At Porsche, GTS does, indeed, stand for “Gran Turismo Sport” (not to be confused with the popular video game) and on the Taycan, it graces the flanks (and rump) of both the Taycan sports sedan and Sport Turismo wagon styles. Which is a little confusing -- or right on the money -- because that means if you expand it out, the wagon’s full name would be “Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo Gran Turismo Sport”. But who’s counting?
Those who are counting will realize that of the GTS models, the Taycan is the most powerful. It makes a generous 589 hp and 627 lb-ft of torque, enough for a 0-100 km/h time of just 3.7-seconds. Needless to say, that is an almost unfathomable number for what is after all a 2,295-kg (that’s over 5,000 lb!) station wagon with seating for five.
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