Porsche development driver Lars Kern has outdone himself at the Nürburgring: driving a pre-series Taycan, he posted a lap time of 7:07.55 minutes on the Nordschleife. This official lap time is a whopping 26 seconds faster than he was on his last record drive, in a Taycan Turbo S Sport sedan equipped with the performance package back in August 2022.
The Nürburgring-Nordschleife was at the exclusive disposal of the experienced racer for the day of fast laps. For safety reasons, the test car was equipped with the legally prescribed roll cage, along with racing bucket seats. Compared to the 2022 record in a Taycan Turbo S, the times were significantly better: the pre-series car was a good 25 km/h faster heading into the Schwedenkreuz. To illustrate the difference further, by the time Kern crossed the finish line near Grandstand 13 (T13) this time, he would have only just been passing the entrance to the Nordschleife, about to enter the Antoniusbuche section, during his record drive in the Taycan Turbo S in 2022. This put the distance between the pre-series Taycan and the current Turbo S at more than 1.3 kilometres – a figure that illustrates the leap in performance achieved on the 20.8 km course in Germany’s Eifel region. An onboard video of the complete lap will be published in mid-March.
that is awesome and amazing.
AND
in about five years, all these taycans will need replacement
battery packs that will cost more than the car is worth.
go look at the 7-10 year old Telsa Model S in the US market.
they are selling as low as 10,000USD. because they need 30,000USD in batteries…
the EV world is a throw-away subscription model, like smartphones.
this is why these manufacturers want to switch to EVs.
gone are the days of having a car, you could pass on to your grandchildren.
lithium mining and cobalt mining. all to make you keep buying batteries from them.
and somehow, in this clown world. perpetually buying batteries, charged by coal and natural gas, is ‘green’
WHAT
A
JOKE.