THE GT TEAM’S TAYCAN

Swearing isn’t big, and it isn’t clever – but it is compulsory the first time you use launch control in the Taycan Turbo GT. Porsche claims it goes 0-62mph in 2.2sec. All | know is that |’ve never before made myself feel physically ill from a standing start, nor so strongly experienced a sustained sensation of having the skin peeled back from my face.

This is Porsche’s most powerful ever production car, with a pair of motors now spitting out 778bhp that can overboost to a 1093bhp peak in Attack mode – an upgrade over the ordinary Taycan’s push-to-pass function. |t’s EV by team GT, so carries some heavy expectation even before you clap eyeballs on the Weissach package version. This glories in a fixed carbonfibre rear wing and deleted rear seats among other exertions, the layout greatly contributing to a 75kg saving. The Turbo GT also has ceramic brakes with lightweight calipers painted Victory Gold, and two grades of bespoke Pirelli tyre.

Yet who is it for? No serious trackday enthusiast is going to pick one of these over a GT3 RS, surely – even at 75kg o‘ it’s still 2220kg. The speed is undeniably outrageous – Attack mode being nearly as bonkers as launch control – the steering as Porsche as you’d expect, and the body control other-worldly thanks to the specially calibrated Active Ride system.

None of that can fully disguise the Taycan’s bulk, though. And juggling regen as well as friction, the brake pedal lacks that typical Porsche GT-car firmness.

|t’s spectacular. But an electric GT3 RS? Not this time. Not yet.