MOTOR Magazine Australia

05 PORSCHE TAYCAN CROSS TURISMO

EACH AND EVERY summer, students graduating from the prestigious Vehicle Design masters degree at the Royal College of Art put on a show. Many of the scale models on display are spectacular, as you would expect given that they’re dreamed up in the brains of one-day chief designers for the world’s greatest car makers.

However, the ideas are often equally unrealistic: deliberate flights of fancy belonging far into the future. The cars look wild and purport to do everything you could imagine, but they could never actually exist. You can see where we’re headed here: Porsche’s new Taycan Cross Turismo feels a lot like one of

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