Porsche Taycan 4S

The first step into Porsche’s electric dreams!

- Bertrand D’Souza

You know when you get invited to Finland to drive the new Taycan 4S, it is going to be an interesting experience. The cold is expected, what Porsche failed to mention is the just about two hours of daylight. Even those two hours aren’t a sun shining in your face kind of day. There is a dull, cold, diffused light spread through the landscape. It comes in late in the day and goes out in a blink. Yet it provides enough of a window to drape the Taycan 4S in a gorgeous canvas.

Porsche’s all-new and first of its kind electric sports car was revealed earlier this year to much fanfare. The burning issue that the Taycan addresses is that it is not so much about being an EV as much as it is about being yet another Porsche. In that sense you approach this car like a damn fine sports car, that is as much Porsche as any other Porsche before it. The electric powertrain becomes secondary.

The Taycan 4S looks the part too, losing none of the details that are part of the Porsche gene pool. It is low-slung, is as slinky and curvy as Karlie Kloss stretched out on a settee, and it’s got the interiors that scream Porsche in every fold, tuck, and stitch! It smoothly blends traditions with futurism. The interiors for instance are classic Porsche, the absolutely delightful round steering wheel sans paddle shifters, the vision of those raised fenders from the windscreen, and the Chrono on the dashboard. On the outside, the flap to access the charging point that slides up effortlessly when you touch the underside of the wedge just next to it or moving towards the rear of the Taycan 4S, that single thin LED strip running seamlessly from end to end are all as exciting as the future this car represents!