MASTER OF ALL TRADES
What a car the Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo is. Seriously. It’s like Zuffenhausen’s head honchos took one look at the growing electric vehicle (EV) market and thought, how can we ruin the fun of all of our competitors in one fell swoop? Honestly, if you thought the saloon-bodied Taycan was good, this thing will blow your mind.
It launches off the back of the immense goodwill already generated by Porsche’s four-door EV, a vehicle which has swiftly become one of the company’s top sellers in the UK, despite an avant-garde form of propulsion. Perhaps the real master-stroke of this latest development in the Taycan story is the fact Porsche didn’t just decide to go Sport Turismo (as it did with the Panamera), but instead liberally applied SUV-styling to create a Cross Turismo. Those of you who can remember a prepandemic world will know the decision was presaged by the Mission E Cross Turismo concept exhibited at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, but even so, for Porsche to actually go ahead and build this Swiss Army knife of a machine is still a brilliant move on the part of the Stuttgart brand.
The Taycan Cross Turismo uses the same platform and same electric running gear as the
