PORSCHE TAYCAN THE FIRST LOOK
“The Taycan is fascinating,” said August Achleitner, also known as ‘Mr 911’, when we discussed the future of Porsche and the 911 at his retirement interview. He’s not wrong. This new model isn’t a 911, but it’s such a significant new Porsche that to ignore it would be futile, even in a publication dedicated to a car which, thus far, has been exclusively fitted with a rear-mounted flat six internal combustion engine.
The Taycan, as the Mission E production car has become known, will never feature such an engine – or any engine at all, for that matter – but over the past few years every engineer or person involved in its creation and development has not only described it as “a proper Porsche”, but has always referenced the 911 at the same time. It is hugely significant, not least because Porsche has invested 6 billion Euros to produce it, doing so at a new, dedicated factory squeezed into Zuffenhausen – the very site on which our own 911 is made.
That new plant will be busy, too, as even
