AS A TEENAGER, MY GREATEST FEAR going into college was that when my time came to drive some good stuff, the only V8 would be two banks of four batteries under the bonnet or under the floor, as it turns out. Yet, I thank my stars, three-pointed and otherwise, for several opportunities to drive many of those and some even quicker ones without having to save up and spend my entire life’s savings on just one of them. With that thought bouncing from one side of my brain to the other, I approached the baby blue—Frozen Blue Metallic—Taycan. This is the entry model. The one with a 79.2-kWh battery pack, one motor on the rear axle, 408 horsepower, and 345 Nm of torque. But look at it.
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