{"id":282687,"date":"2021-02-15T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/?p=282687"},"modified":"2024-10-18T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T20:27:58","slug":"porsche-taycan-cross-turismo-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/cars\/porsche-taycan-cross-turismo-wagon","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Reveals All-Electric Taycan Cross Turismo: Performance Meets Practicality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard not to love fast wagons. There\u2019s something just so appealing about that combination of practicality, sleek looks and insane performance\u2026 Plus the fact that you\u2019re thumbing your nose at SUVs. They\u2019re the Swiss army knife of cars; good for everything. It\u2019s why we were frothing at the mouth when we heard that BMW has an M3 wagon in the works and that some crazy Dutch engineer has come up with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/cars\/tesla-shooting-brake\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tesla \u2018shooting brake\u2019 modification<\/a>.<\/p><p>Speaking of electric cars, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/cars\/porsche-911-buyers-guide\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Porsche<\/a> has just revealed that they\u2019ve got a new fast wagon in the works, too \u2013 and not just any <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/cars\/best-station-wagons\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fast wagon<\/a>, but indeed the very first all-electric wagon. Enter the Taycan Cross Turismo: the most exciting version of perhaps the most exciting car in recent memory.<\/p><p>Australian <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sport.dmarge.com\/f1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">F1<\/a> legend and brand ambassador Mark Webber has been helping the Stuttgart brand test the new auto, which Porsche is calling a \u2018cross utility vehicle\u2019 \u2013 a wagon by any other name \u2013 and he\u2019s had some particularly glowing praise for the car.<\/p><blockquote><p>\u201cPhenomenal first drive for me with this beauty. Drives like a Porsche, feels like a Porsche, smells like a Porsche. It\u2019s a proper sports car with even more space and ground clearance now. Expect the World Premiere of the all-new Taycan Cross Turismo to take place in less than eight weeks. In dealerships as early as this summer. I can\u2019t wait. It\u2019s the perfect car for the Australian outback and the German Autobahn.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>                <div class=\"row row-center collapse\">\n                    <div class=\"column\">\n                        <div class=\"dmg-ad\"><div id=\"incontent-871542604\" class=\"ad-container\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var load_658842594 = function () {googletag.cmd.push(function () {var slot_658842594 = googletag.defineSlot(\"\/1017963\/DMarge\/incontent\",[[300,250],[320,100],[320,180],[336,280],[640,360]],\"incontent-871542604\").addService(googletag.pubads()).setTargeting('refresh', 'true');if (gamData && gamData.sizeMap && gamData.sizeMap.hasOwnProperty('incontent')) {slot_658842594.defineSizeMapping(gamData.sizeMap['incontent']);}googletag.display(\"incontent-871542604\");});};adsQueue.push(load_658842594);<\/script><\/div><\/div>                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"content-subscribe\">\n        <div class=\"subscribe-box\">\n            <p class=\"subscribe-title\">Curated news for men, <br\/>delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n            <form class=\"subscribe-form\" method=\"POST\">\n                <div class=\"subscribe-input\">\n                    <label class=\"screen-reader-text\" for=\"subscribe-email\">Email:<\/label>\n                    <input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"subscribe-email\" placeholder=\"Enter your email\" required class=\"form-control\" autocomplete=\"on\" \/>\n                    <button type=\"submit\" class=\"button button-primary subscribe-button\">Sign Up<\/button>\n                    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"source\" value=\"article\" \/>\n                    <input type=\"hidden\" id=\"_wpnonce\" name=\"_wpnonce\" value=\"e2df992756\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282687\" \/>                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"form-result\"><\/div>\n            <\/form>\n            <p class=\"subscribe-copy\">Join the DMARGE newsletter \u2014 Be the first to receive the latest news and exclusive stories on style, travel, luxury, cars, and watches. Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p>It\u2019s unclear whether the Taycan Cross Turismo will come with the Taycan 4S\u2019 all-wheel drive as standard, but it\u2019s a likely bet. The Volkswagen Group (to which Porsche belongs) has a long history of making lifted, 4\u00d74 wagons like the Audi <span id=\"A6_allroad_quattro_(1999\u2013present)\" class=\"mw-headline\">A6 allroad quattro, the \u0160koda Octavia Scout and the Volkswagen Golf Alltrack. Doing the same with the Taycan just makes sense: now they\u2019ve got an electric option too.<\/span><\/p><p>While the prospect of an all-electric wagon is pretty exciting in of itself, the fact that it\u2019s a Taycan makes it even more thrilling. DMARGE founder Luc Wiesman had the opportunity to test drive the Taycan 4S in Kittila, Finland, and was absolutely blown away with its performance, relating that \u201cacross design, technology and performance driving this could be one of the most \u2018complete\u2019 packages I\u2019ve driven.\u201d Add the extra utility of a wagon and you\u2019ve got a winning formula.Assuming the Taycan Cross Turismo will boast similar performance figures at the 4S, the car should make around 390kW, do 0-100km\/h in 4 seconds flat and have a top speed of 250km\/h. If the Cross Turismo designation works as a package that you can apply to the Taycan\u2019s higher model levels, it could be even more insane: the Taycan Turbo S makes a crazy 560kW, does 0-100km\/h in 2.8 seconds. Imagine a wagon that\u2019s faster than a McLaren Senna\u2026<\/p><p>While we don\u2019t want to work ourselves into a frenzy, the Taycan Cross Turismo sounds like the ultimate car: good for the environment, fast as hell, and practical. Eco-warrior soccer mums must be champing at the bit \u2013 and Elon Musk must be quaking in his boots.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Tesla Killer&#8217; has become even more deadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101060,"featured_media":282694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1167],"tags":[131613],"coauthors":[146236],"class_list":{"0":"post-282687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cars","8":"tag-electric-vehicles"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282687"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=282687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}