Video Porsche ✅ Porsche’s first-ever dedicated EV is a four-door sports car, with a sensuous design that recalls the 911 sports car and optional batteries and motors that make it as quick as any car on the road. Jonny Lieberman asks: Is that all good stuff overshadowed by the six-figure sedan’s poor range? ✅ Porsche’s EV Sports Car! 2022 Porsche Taycan | Buyer’s Guide | MotorTrend
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this burgundy beauty is the 2022 Porsche
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tycon it’s Porsche’s first ever electric
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vehicle is it any good
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should you buy one let’s find out
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the whole world is going electric you
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might say it’s inevitable if you still
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need proof look no further than this
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look it’s a Porsche Porsche the
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Motorsports company they make super cars
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they got big SUVs they got big sedans
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but now they’re turning their attention
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to EVS the problem that the ticon is
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facing is the competition because the
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stuff that’s out there is really good
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the Audi e-tron GT is incredible and
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then you’ve got the Lucid air then the
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Mercedes eqs and then of course the
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Tesla Model S the ticon really has its
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work cut out for it however it does have
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an ace up its sleeve it’s the badge on
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the back and the crest up front it’s a
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Porsche
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let’s talk design because I think it’s
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one of the taikon’s strongest selling
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points this is a gorgeous vehicle full
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stop all of Porsche’s design language
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flows out of the 911. that’s just how it
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is where’s the engine in a 911 it’s in
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the rear right so since this has no
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engine it doesn’t need cooling so little
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tiny Grill down there so it tracks
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design language wise with Porsche’s most
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important icon signature Porsche
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four-point headlights got to have that
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really incredibly handsome no matter
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where you look except for right here
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this is the charging port it just looks
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like an afterthought and it’s too bad
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because otherwise I really dig the
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design of this thing coming down the
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side though fantastic this is one of the
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best looking Silhouettes in the
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automotive industry look at this
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c-pillar pure classic Porsche this could
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be on a 911 they nailed it coming out
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back it’s just you know it’s a Porsche
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you know it’s an EV because there’s no
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tailpipes but it’s just lovely from
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basically every single angle I think
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this is one of the best looking
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four-door vehicles of the last 25 years
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and honestly maybe ever
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the Porsche ticon is the inside is it’s
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okay unless you like screens man if you
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like screens whoa do we have some
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screens for you one two three four even
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the passenger gets the screen it’s a bit
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overwhelming for me now yes the
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passenger screen can be turned off even
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still it’s a lot visually you know
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shining in your eyes it all works fine
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it’s just I don’t know I wish there was
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a bit more design to the interior as far
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as the materials go pretty good they use
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this cool uh fabric for the seat inserts
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and also for the door cards here it’s
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pretty nice you know it’s not full
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leather you can obviously get full
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leather it’s a Porsche you can get
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whatever you want but the materials are
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pretty good one thing I can’t stand this
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is just true across the board with EVS
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because I’m sitting on the batteries so
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the roof doesn’t feel like it’s on my
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head they put this glass roof here it’s
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a cheat because look my head is this far
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away
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from this hard thing here comfortable
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you know this feels like a Porsche seat
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this is definitely a Porsche steering
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wheel back seat is tight on this you
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don’t have a lot of rear leg room put
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the seats down you have some nice
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storage space I guess again just back to
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what I said at the beginning I wish the
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interior of the tycon excited me as much
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as the exterior
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when it comes to the performance of the
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Porsche ticon you might want to take a
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seat because I have a lot to say this
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icon there’s a small battery and a big
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battery and with EVS if you have a
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bigger battery you can suck more power
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out of them the motor can spin faster so
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with the small battery which is 79.2
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kilowatt hours this is rated at like 302
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horsepower with the larger battery which
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this one has which is 93.4 kilowatt
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hours we’re talking 350 horsepower and
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250 pound-feet of torque unless you put
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it into launch mode when you launch this
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puppy it can go into this over boost
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mode makes 469 horsepower and 263
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pound-feet of torque but it can only do
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that for 10 seconds you know so it is a
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relatively quick car and it’s 60 miles
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an hour in 4.7 seconds which sounds
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really good until you realize that a
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pole star 2 can do it quicker it should
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a pull start ever be faster than a
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Porsche I’d argue no and then there’s
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the handling and people are really I
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think they get lazy when they review
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this car and they say oh it handles like
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a Porsche well no it handles like a big
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heavy Eevee with a Porsche badge on it
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but on these tires rear wheel drive only
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you know I set up for efficiency it’s
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just okay and then of course we have the
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problem the ticon is Infamous for this
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with this size battery this is the big
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battery remember it’s rated at 225 miles
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of range you know yes the ticon it does
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beat the EPA estimate it’s better than
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you know what the government rates it at
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but not by much so even if you know
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they’ve resubmitted for 2022 they’re
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trying to get a better rating but you
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know if it’s 250 it’s still way behind
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the competition
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as far as safety goes we don’t know
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nobody and I mean nobody has bothered to
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crash test a Porsche tycon yet will they
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well it’s been on the market for two
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years so I don’t know as far as a
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standard active safety features go the
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list is surprisingly small on a vehicle
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in this segment and again considering
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who its competition is shouldn’t
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adaptive cruise control be standard
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and now the moment you’ve all been
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waiting for how much let me preface this
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part by saying Porsches are expensive
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and big full-size electric sedans they
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cost a lot of money all that said the
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least amount you could spend on a
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Porsche icon is 82 700 and that is the
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base stripper model no options
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whatsoever what about this car it’s got
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some options glad you asked this one’s
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over a hundred and twelve thousand
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dollars as it sits what about the
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competition okay the Tycoon is only
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undercut base price to base price by one
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competitor Lucid they make something
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called the air pure and it starts at
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over 77 000 the other competitors the
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Mercedes starts at over 102 000 the
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Audi’s over 103 and the least you could
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spend on a Tesla Model S is a hundred
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and four thousand dollars actually over
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a hundred and four thousand dollars what
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have we learned Vehicles like this it’s
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gonna cost you
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if there’s one thing that I want you to
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know about the 2022 Porsche ticon it’s
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that this thing is being held back by
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its range look I like this thing a lot I
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I love how it looks it’s stunning I like
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how it drives it’s just that boy Porsha
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was thinking about everything except for
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efficiency whereas the competition they
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humble it when it comes to range it’s
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too bad again like the vehicle a lot but
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for all that money I believe there are
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better options out there for you to buy
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to see vehicle rankings and a complete
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buyer’s guide please visit motatrend.com
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