Yikes, the new Porsche Taycan GTS now has 690bhp with overboost

Porsche has been steadily updating its Taycan electric car range, and today it’s the turn of what it calls the ‘sporting all-rounder’. This is the new, updated Porsche Taycan GTS, and drivers will have access to a whopping 690bhp of total power during overboost.

That’s 100 electrified horsies (75kW) more than the outgoing Taycan GTS had access to when you pushed the ‘too soon, junior’ button. Porsche sensibly doesn’t call it that, instead naming it a ‘push-to-pass’ function, which also ups the torque to ‘Launch Control’ levels at low speeds too.

Long, complicated story short: it’s really very fast. A little timer counts down the 10 seconds of additional boost via the instrument cluster, but you’ll be too busy hanging on.

Because the new Taycan GTS can crack the 0-62mph sprint in just 3.3s – 0.4s quicker than before – and the 0-124mph sprint in 10.4, an improvement of 1.6s over its predecessor.

And the Taycan GTS benefits from the wider improvements made to the Taycan model range earlier this year. This includes stuff like: a new rear-axle motor, a modified pulse inverter with better software, more powerful batteries, better heat management, an improved heat pump and the revised AWD strategy able to decouple the front motor whenever possible.

Brake regen capacity has increased to 400kW (from 320kW), there’s a bit more range (74 miles more for a total of up to 390 miles), and a better noise. Porsche says it’s now been given “a more distinctive sound profile, analogous to the Taycan Turbo S”.

Speaking of, it also gets the Turbo S’s 20in ‘Aero Design’ wheels as standard, though you can of course option 21in RS Spyder versions.

There’s more trickle-down equipment from that big boy not-a-turbo Turbo inside. ‘Race-Tex’ and black leather, for example. Sports seats with 18-way adjustability, a multifunction steering wheel, and of course, the Sport Chrono pack (which gets the big ‘boost’ button).

Outside? It’s as you’d expect a GTS to look. The front and rear aprons have been tweaked and there’s more high-gloss black detailing. There are new paint options including grey, pale blue and metallic purple, and yes, everyone speccing a new Taycan GTS should immediately paint it metallic purple.

UK prices start at £117,500 for the Taycan GTS saloon, and £118,300 for the Taycan GTS Sport Turismo. Naturally you’ll be offered many options, along with seat time at Porsche’s Silverstone driving centre. A perfect place to deploy all that boost.