2026 Porsche Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo

"From personal experience after test drives, and getting a 4S. 1. Get the bigger battery (Perfomance Battery Plus) 2. Sport chrono - the difference between Sport in regular cars and Sport+ with Sport Chrono is massive 3. Rear wheel steering - combined with Sport Chrono makes the car a proper sports car. I have taken a some people on spirited drives on twisty roads and even the ones with fast cars are shocked how fast the Taycan is around corners. And never skimp on tyres."

"Purchased one in January. Amazing car. Drives like a car, planted to the ground. Accelerates like a beast. I have a 4S CT. Features I love: \- Sport Chrono (you get the wheel to change modes on the steering wheel and I use it every time I start the car) \- RAS (incredibly useful, even more so in Europe I would imagine) \- 360 camera view. The Taycan cameras suck. This makes it tolerable. \- Premium package \- Sport sounds package. Love hearing the sound, even thought it is fake. Sue me. \- I have full leather but haven't seen one without. The interior of my car looks great."

"Updated 2025 Porsche Taycans See Their Range Improve by up to 50 Percent in Our Real-World Test >In-car range estimates were shockingly accurate in our range test, remaining within about 1 percent from start to finish. 💯"

"What I have learned is that these cars are generally either problem free or problem full, so with that in mind I looked for a Taycan that had more miles than average thinking it meant the car was in the latter camp. One year into my used Taycan CT4 ownership and I haven't had a single issue. Personally, I didn't see much of a point in getting a "4S", "GTS", or a "Turbo" because I don't care if my EV is super fast -- it's really not what I bought it for and I have never once thought to myself I wish my Taycan 4 was faster. The "must-have" option is a fast charger installed in your home. Mine can charge from empty to full overnight. When I was using a regular wall charger it was just like a few dozen miles charge overnight."

"2020 is not something that I would recommend and look for newer as this was a launch model and now aged in general including the battery. To me, when the battery warranty expires (8 years or 100k miles) the car is worth zero, since battery replacement, if needed, cost $45k used and almost double that if replaced with new, but if modules need to be replaced that would be cheaper. JoinedFeb 4, 2024Threads26Messages2,273Reaction score2,033LocationSwitzerlandVehicles > SergeyIndy said: > > since battery replacement, if needed, cost $45k used and almost double that if replaced with new, but if modules need to be replaced that would be cheaper. > > > Click to expand..."

"The salary sacrifice schemes make a lot of profit. It’s often not a good deal for PAYE employees vs privately buying something a bit older. Also a taycan will depreciate off a cliff so I can see they’d be hedging on the price."

"We have Tusker at my workplace and everyone came to the same conclusion - they just hiked up the prices to eat up almost all the tax saving (and hope you don't notice?). The choice is basically to pay tax to the government with a chance of it being used to improve the country, or pay it to some useless profiteering company. I dont know a single person that took out a salary sacrifice lease with them. I ended up buying a used Taycan the normal way with a small low interest rate loan."

"Not sure I'd agree. They definitely are behind in both software and hardware architecture .. and, more importantly, the marriage of the two. I am sorely disappointed in the inability of the car to do OTA updates. That, however, does not take away from the pure enjoyment of driving the car. It's a beast and unlike some others here, I have a decent dealer and after 7k miles and a year of ownership, my issues have been at most, minor. I have spared myself the newest update since it doesn't seem to do much and I have very minor issues (rarely). This is my 3rd Porsche (911 4S, MacanS and now the 4S). Yes, they have a long way to go on getting their electronics up to snuff and competitive with Tesla and Rivian. However, if you look at the incredibly long list of issues with Tesla, Rivian and Lucid over the years - and even currently, I would be careful in saying that they are 'flawless' in comparison. Just ask Lucid about their latest update for the Gravity. BMW clearly got the memo (we think - given we haven't seen the production models yet). I spent a good decade of my Tech career getting excellent engineering teams to understand that excelling at software is not just 'an add on'. They never get it. Just ask Blackberry and Sony. No question that Porsche will eventually get the memo even if they have to go through even more pain. Hopefully, the joint project with Rivian will help. Assuming things continue as they are with my 4S, i'll be getting the next version in 2028 after my lease is up. My past experiences with BMW's leaves me cold so I won't be going down that path any time soon. For many reasons, I'm not going back to ICE cars either."