From the September/October 2026 issue of Car and Driver.
0–150–0 mph: 14.8 seconds
Base: $244,528 | As-Tested: $248,028 Power and Weight: 1019 hp • 4954 lb • 4.9 lb/hp Tires: Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS Elect; F: 265/35ZR-21 (101Y) NF0, R: 305/30ZR-21 (104Y) NF0 Brakes, F/R: 16.5-in vented, cross-drilled carbon-ceramic disc/16.1-in vented, cross-drilled carbon-ceramic disc
If nothing has impressed so far, you’d have to be a Top Fuel driver to witness the Turbo GT’s run without at least a nod of acknowledgment. The Taycan is in bonkers territory. A 14.8-second run used to be a solid quarter-mile, maybe with a trap speed of close to 100 mph. And here, we’ve done it to 150 and back again. Oh, and we’re only up to third place.
The Turbo GT with Weissach package is an odd duck. It’s a track-prepped, four-digit-horsepower, two-seat, four-door electric sedan that vaults to 60 mph in under two seconds.
The Taycan’s tricks start with an electric motor turning each axle and a two-speed transaxle in the rear, which improves both acceleration and efficiency. The big wing adds more drag, but if the Taycan was struggling to move forward, we couldn’t tell.
Of all the cars in this test, the Taycan might be the most competitive in an actual dragstrip bracket race, as its launching procedure was as simple as sticking it in Sport Plus, holding both pedals, and releasing the brake. In seven back-to-back runs, it was within 0.5 second of its best time.
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Like a sleeper agent activated late in the game, Elana Scherr didn’t know her calling at a young age. Like many girls, she planned to be a vet-astronaut-artist, and came closest to that last one by attending UCLA art school. She painted images of cars, but did not own one. Elana reluctantly got a driver’s license at age 21 and discovered that she not only loved cars and wanted to drive them, but that other people loved cars and wanted to read about them, which meant somebody had to write about them. Since receiving activation codes, Elana has written for numerous car magazines and websites, covering classics, car culture, technology, motorsports, and new-car reviews. In 2020, she received a Best Feature award from the Motor Press Guild for the C/D story "A Drive through Classic Americana in a Polestar 2." In 2023, her Car and Driver feature story "In Washington, D.C.'s Secret Carpool Cabal, It's a Daily Slug Fest" was awarded 1st place in the 16th Annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards by the Los Angeles Press Club.