Porsche development driver Lars Kern has lapped the Nurburgring Nordschleife in the Porsche Taycan Turbo S in 7 minutes 33 seconds, quicker than the Tesla Model S Plaid that did it in 7 minutes 35 seconds.The Taycan Turbo S was equipped with the new performance kit and Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (PDCC) and – aside from the required roll cage and racing seats – was an entirely standard production vehicle. It weighed the same as the series production car.A notary was on hand to ve

Worldwide, more than 75,000 examples of the Porsche Taycan have been delivered since Porsche introduced its first all-electric sports car at the end of 2019. Now, a comprehensive update is on the horizon: regardless of vehicle age, engine, body and market, all model variants can be brought up to the status of the 2023 model year with a software update. The update will be implemented on a market-specific basis.Depending on when their vehicle was delivered, customers will benefit from, among other

Globally, Porsche customers in China are some of the youngest in the world, averaging just 35 years old, compared to 53 in the USA and Germany. Porsche China also has the highest proportion of female customers, at 47 percent, suggesting very high upward mobility of women there.If you want to know where the centre of Girl Power is, go to a Porsche showroom in ChinaThose numbers have been more or less unchanged for the last 5 years but it is the demographics of Porsche Taycan buyers that are surpr

Porsche delivered 301,915 cars in 2021, up 11 percent from 2020. The figure is Porsche’s highest ever annual sales record, breaking the pre-pandemic era 2019’s record of 280,000 cars.Never before in the companys 73-year history (since 1948) has more people bought a Porsche. If there was an economic slowdown last year, Porsches customers never felt it.“Despite the challenges posed by the semi-conductor shortage and the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic we have been work

Want to leave internal combustion and emissions behind? Here are the Electric Vehicles available right now.More and more there is a sense that the small rock first thrown by Toyota and Honda is slowly turning into an avalanche that can no longer be stopped. The ongoing pandemic has changed the consciousness of many regarding the environment and their impact on it. What’s more, vehicle sales globally in the past few years have shown that sales of EV continued to go strong, and in 2020 it ro

Following the Ministry of Finance’s Budget 2022 announcement to exempt electric vehicles (EVs) from taxes, EVs are now generally referred to as tax-free.In October 2021, Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz’s Budget 2022 proposed for EVs (specifically, it’s battery electric vehicles or BEVs) to be made tax-free. Some buyers confused this to include sales tax.However, the Malaysia Automotive Association (MAA) has since clarified that the tax-free reference only r