Yahoo Autos Porsche Taycan Turbo GT: The First to Hit 60 MPH in under Two Seconds
The 2025 Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is the first vehicle we've ever tested to blast to 60 mph in less than two seconds.
That's quicker than our previous champ, the Ferrari SF90, as well as the Taycan's key competitors—the Lucid Air Sapphire and Tesla Model S Plaid.
Notably, this Turbo GT did not have the Weissach package, which saves a claimed 165 pounds. So, that spec could go even quicker.
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It has finally happened. While the pointy end of the performance-car spectrum has been knocking on the door of a sub-two-second zero-to-60-mph time for roughly a decade, the new 1092-hp Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is the first to put its shoulder down and blast through with a 1.9-second run.
Flirting with a Sub-Two-Second Run
Back in 2008, the 1001-hp Bugatti Veyron got halfway there, its four turbos (one optimized specifically for the launch) helping to make sufficient power to inhale 60 mph in 2.5 seconds. The 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder’s 2.1-second blast—using our current 1-foot-rollout testing methodology—made it seem like a sub-two-second run must be just around the corner.
Since then, numerous all-wheel-drive supercars have been cozying up to the two-second mark, and then electrification took us a step closer. The 986-hp Ferrari SF90 plug-in hybrid laid down a run of 2.0 seconds flat, while the mega four-door EVs—the Tesla Model S Plaid and Lucid Air Sapphire—tied with 2.1-second times.
Breaking the Record
Notably, this watershed moment wasn’t delivered by a Taycan Turbo GT with the Weissach package that ditches the back seat (among various other mass reductions) to save a claimed 165 pounds. Our test car was a 5203-pound, four-seat Turbo GT, but it was wearing the more aggressive Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS tires.
During the first couple of runs—Sport Plus mode, stability control off, hold both pedals to activate launch control—we could hear and feel a tire momentarily scrabbling for traction in the first couple hundred feet, which slowed the times. But with sufficient heat in the tires, the Taycan’s launch control is absolutely dialed. Remember, our test surface is not an ultra-sticky prepped drag strip but rather a standard concrete surface. Accelerating this quickly is very disorienting, but we could discern that the rear axle’s one-two shift got a lot quicker since the first-generation Taycan, and about 15 seconds after its two motors forcefully shoved you back in the seat, the thrust trails off and you find yourself cruising at the Turbo GT’s 180-mph governed top speed.
This record-setting performance was not just squeaking by, either, for example, a 1.949-second run that happens to round down to 1.9. Our results are always an average of the quickest runs in each direction to take out any effect from wind or several other factors, and the Taycan’s two passes were 1.898 seconds in one direction and 1.910 in the other. Bam.
However, as the speeds rise, the Porsche’s two key four-door competitors start to reel it back in. The Taycan blasts through the quarter mile in 9.3 seconds at 150 mph; that time is tied with the 1234-hp Air Sapphire and a tenth ahead of the 1020-hp Model S Plaid, both of which have higher trap speeds. To 160 mph, the Plaid pulls ahead by 0.2 second and the Sapphire by 0.7. The Sapphire wins the race to 170 mph by 1.1 seconds. That's not surprising, as the Taycan is down 142 hp (and one electric motor) compared with the Air.
A Quicker Time to Come?
No doubt significant credit is due to the Trofeo RS tires, but the Turbo GT also beat out the other four-door EVs in braking—141 feet from 70 mph and 274 feet from 100 mph. And its 1.08 g average around the skidpad ties the 375-pound lighter Plaid's result while beating the Sapphire’s 1.04 g’s.
The rule of thumb is that a hundred-pound reduction in curb weight typically reduces the zero-to-60-mph time by a tenth of a second, all other things being equal. So, now we’ll be waiting to see if a Turbo GT with the Weissach pack can get down to 1.8 ticks.
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