FAST & LOOSE

DESCRIBE THE SOUND OF GRAVEL RICOCHETING OFF THE UNDERSIDE OF A RALLY CAR.

A TINKLE?

A RATTLE?

A FLURRY?

A small noise anyway, something soft and gentle, lost behind a wall of sound from a furious four pot. Now remove the petrol soundtrack. Treading on the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo is akin to engaging an instant and very aggressive hailstorm. A bombardment. A barrage. A machine-gunning. These are the words I’d use – and so would Chris the videographer, who did not describe the pea-sized impact to the back of his head as a ‘dink’. It damn near dropped him to his knees.

Gravel is hostile, it sprays around like bullets and when the weapon being used to fire these plentiful projectiles develops 774lb ft of torque at a standstill, it has what a ballistics expert would probably term ‘a good range’. The crew should have come in bomb disposal suits.

But the Cross Turismo has