Silent Fury: Watch 2-Seater Porsche Taycan Turbo GT’s Full Nurburgring Lap | Carscoops

There’s nothing quite / quiet like being in the cockpit to help you understand just how fast the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is

Back in January, Porsche announced that it set an insane, record-breaking Nurburgring lap time of 7:07.55 in the updated Taycan. To be more specific, it had done it in the high-performance Turbo GT variant with the Weissach that eliminates the rear seats among other things, and now that it has fully unveiled the car, it can publish the video of the complete lap.

Although the video suffers for its lack of engine noise, the high-pitched whistle of the motors does at least make the car sound like it’s trying, and gives it a futuristic quality, like it’s shifting into hyperdrive. The EV’s insane acceleration also helps prevent the video from being boring.

Also providing some intrigue is the way driver Lars Kern uses the Attack Mode feature. Inspired by Formula E racecars, the mode unlocks an extra 160 hp (120 kW / 163 PS) from the car for 10 seconds at a time, and the in-car camera shows the countdown on the right side of the instrument screen.

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Activated with the right-hand shifter paddle, Kern uses the feature to help him hurry out of corners and, in most cases, it lasts until he is entering the next corner. While he runs out of Attack Mode on some of the Nurburgring’s distinctly long straights, it is apparently a useful feature whose effective utilization adds to the entertainment of completing a fast lap.

In all, the Taycan Turbo GT offers drivers 1,092 hp (815 kW / 1,108 PS), which can get it from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in just 2.1 seconds (with the Weissach package), and on to a top speed of 190 mph (306 km/h).

That, in conjunction with Porsche’s impressive chassis tuning, helped the Taycan Turbo GT become the fastest four-door production car to ever lap the Nurburgring, and one of the fastest EVs to ever take on the track.

And if that wasn’t enough, Porsche also achieved a lap record for “electric series-production” vehicles at Laguna Seca, California. They set a blistering lap time of 1:27.87, which is about half a second faster than a 911 GT2 RS (991), 2 seconds quicker than the 918 Spyder, and on par with the McLaren P15.