Porsche Taycan – interior and tech
Loaded with tech and built with an impregnable solidity, but is it a bit stark?
Nothing much has changed inside the new Taycan, but that's no bad thing. Slide into the driver's seat – made easier with the Active Ride system’s ‘easy entry’ function, which boosts the car up on its springs by 55mm – and the Taycan has a genuine sense of occasion, with a small-diameter steering wheel and the peaks of the wheel arches extending into your view ahead. You don't sit as low as you do in a 911 (thank the floor-mounted batteries for that) but there's definite sports car DNA in the cocooned driving environment, and build quality is excellent throughout. If we had a criticism, it's that the Taycan still isn't as roomy as it should be for a five-metre saloon – the rear seats are claustrophobic for adults.
As is all too common in 2024, the Taycan’s control surfaces are almost entirely digital, but the climate controls are at least a permanent fixture on the lower pressure-based haptic display. Porsche's latest PCM infotainment system is one of the more intuitive on the market, and it gets Apple CarPlay+ functionality as part of the facelift, along with an updated charging planner to plot the most efficient and quickest points to top up during a journey.
The Turbo GT’s interior is altogether more focused if you go for the Weissach Package. Carbon bucket seats hold you securely in place and you’re presented with a suede steering wheel adapted from the GT3 RS, complete with rotary switches for drive modes and PASM settings. There’s also a paddle for activating the overboost function, designed to fall easily at your fingertips when cornering on track.
