THE GENERALIST
A few issues ago, we brought you a review of the phenomenal Porsche Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo and made the old ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ analogy, though we subverted it to proclaim the electric off-roading estate from Stuttgart as a vehicle which can excel in all departments: master of all trades, jack of none. We bet, however, some of you were looking at the Cross Turismo’s theoretical maximum driving range of 281 miles and thinking we’d lost our marbles. With this in mind, and in the form of Porsche’s ultimate plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), here’s a slightly different take on the mega-performance, zero-emissions wagon. Enter the Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Sport Turismo.
With a name tripping gaily along for a full fourteen syllables (not counting the two in Porsche), it’s a heck of a mouthful just to say the TSEH ST’s moniker out loud. But then, it’s a heck of a confluence of various automotive streams of ability, isn’t it? Indeed, what we have here is a PHEV estate with seven hundred horsepower at its disposal. Of course, we report outputs in good ol’ imperial brake horsepower here at meaning peak is 690bhp, but 700PS sounds that little bit more gobsmacking, doesn’t it?! Seriously,
