I drove hi-tech electric Porsche – massage seats and 376-mile range are great but best bit was above my head

IF you thought electrical cars were the decease of thrilling driving, the Porsche Taycan Turbo wants to person a connection with you. And it’s truthful hi-tech, possibly it conscionable might.

This sci-fi-made-real masterpiece seems purpose-built to person petrolheads that EVs tin sound your socks disconnected conscionable arsenic good arsenic immoderate centrifugal powered by explosions.

Porsche’s all-electric Taycan enactment is an progressively communal show connected UK roads.

You whitethorn person seen 1 silently unreserved by, ghostlike.

It’s intelligibly Porsche connected the extracurricular and wrong too, and – arsenic expected – it goes similar the wind.

I had a accidental to walk a week with the car, investigating retired each of its gadgets and gizmos.

First, for the motoring enthusiasts: it’s ruddy fast.

It’ll whisk you from zero to 62mph successful conscionable 2.7 seconds. That’s Lamborghini speeds.

And it has a apical velocity of 162mph, which you’ll ne'er request to deed – but it’s nice to know.

A much utile statistic is its electrical range, which comes successful astatine 376 miles.

That puts it connected the higher extremity of EVs, and it’s really practical, which is the important bit.

Its maximum charging power is 320kW, and it has a minimum complaint clip from 10% to 80% complaint of conscionable 18 minutes.

If you tin find accelerated chargers, the artillery perfectly flies up.

Better still, there’s a Porsche Charging Service that gives you discounted entree astatine the speedy IONITY stations.

And you tin conscionable pat your car cardinal connected the terminal to pay. Very swish.

Much of the energy goes towards powering the genuinely delightful driving experience.

But it besides powers a batch of the magical features wrong the car too.

The exemplary I drove had 14-way electrical seats that were heated successful the beforehand and back.

Pair that with four-zone clime power positive heated steering and you’ve got a thrust that’s precisely however you privation it.

Even amended was the massage diagnostic successful the chairs that wasn’t rather arsenic bully arsenic a due masseuse but it was plentifulness relaxing.

Your rider tin besides get a massage. You’ll person pals lining up to popular to the shops with you.

Perhaps much mind-blowing was the panoramic extortion overhead, which would alteration its opacity astatine the interaction of a button.

You could artifact retired light, fto a spot through, oregon marque it transparent – seemingly arsenic if by magic.

I astir apt mislaid astir 15 minutes conscionable poking the fastener successful awe, similar if you’d handed an iPhone to a caveman.

And if that wasn’t entertaining enough, the passengers get their ain display, there’s a bass-thumping Burmester 3D situation dependable system, and USB-C charging ports that enactment conscionable good with the caller iPhone (and modern Android blowers too).

The tech isn’t conscionable determination for your comfort, mind. There’s immoderate useful gizmos for driving too.

For a start, you’ve got Apple CarPlay support, which is hard to unrecorded without these days.

It creates a benignant of reflector of your iPhone connected the in-car show truthful you tin entree your music, maps, and contacts successful a acquainted form.

There’s a heads-up show that’s projected onto the roadworthy via the windscreen truthful you tin spot however accelerated you’re going and velocity limits.

You’ve got parking enactment acknowledgment to a suite of cameras, arsenic good arsenic progressive lane keeping truthful you don’t stray portion cruising.

And the cruise power is adaptive, truthful it’ll automatically dilatory down successful keeping with postulation up – alternatively than conscionable blasting on astatine a azygous acceptable speed.

The helping mirrors are heated, the vanity mirrors are illuminated, and there’s an electrical athletics dependable truthful you consciousness similar you’re going warp-speed erstwhile you property the spell pedal.

There’s besides a chill instrumentality with the headlights, which usage HD-Matrix LED tech to divided them into 11 segments.

These tin past beryllium lit up oregon dimmed individually, truthful you tin support the roadworthy lit without blinding oncoming traffic.

And each of this happens automatically, truthful you don’t truly person to bash overmuch different than support driving.

The quality of the Porsche Taycan Turbo is that it was intelligibly made with emotion – and not conscionable a bid to churn retired a half-baked EV.

This is simply a due car for radical who emotion driving, but it runs connected energy and goes “vshhh” alternatively of “vroom”.

If you tin woody with that – arsenic good arsenic the UK’s still-growing charging network, which isn’t wherever it needs to beryllium yet – past you’ll person a blast with this model.

The catch? Well it’ll outgo you astatine slightest £134,000 for a basal Taycan Turbo – oregon astir £167,000 for the exemplary I tried.

Christmas is coming up, truthful if you’ve been good, effort sticking it connected the database for Santa. It’s much amusive than a PS5.