Engineers can be an annoying bunch. You spend six months with one of their creations, finally manage to come up with a couple of areas where there might be scope for improvement - and then you find that they've fixed them in general updates. Not even the decency to wait for a mid-life facelift. Pfft.
You can understand my frustration, because after half a year with a Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo, I am obliged to report that this £100,000-odd EV is every bit as accomplished as you might expect.
Its performance is staggering - and our car is a 'mere' 4S - yet its overall efficiency has been constantly north of 3mi/kWh. Its cabin has been comfortable, and stayed beautifully finished, with no obvious rattles or squeaks, and an admirable resistance to the sort of scuffs and stains inflicted by my nine-year-old son. My own grubby fingers did make a bit of a mess of the control screen on the centre console, mind.
On the road, the Taycan has felt perhaps a little wide and long for school rat runs, but its mix of sublime body control and a firm-yet-comfortable ride gave great confidence in most situations. It never felt like a compromised, jacked-up version of the base model, although it was at its best as a long-distance cruiser. I particularly enjoyed a run to Folkestone; through roadworks, driving rain, heavy traffic, and then empty motorway, it felt absolutely rock solid and supreme.
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