Dirty Martini Porsche Taycan 1 year review. It’s not perfect, but it is brilliant! 

The dirty Martini is the only one I haven't seen around Bournemouth.. I feel like a kid with an unfinished Panini book 🤣

Absolutely loved driving this beauty for a day, turned me into a Taycan fan Richard, thank you

Love your presentation style Richard. Very nice to hear and learn about the top end options in the EV market as well as the "more" affordable EVs. Keep them coming!

Great video! Appreciate your authenticity. Thank you. I hope to get mine soon. It’s sitting around at the dealer waiting for its 12V battery 😞

I love the Tycanne, but I have to say that it makes the Model 3 parked behind it look like incredible value at 40% the price.

Great presentation style Richard I watch all your videos. Today I was out for a ride on my bike and you came passed me in the Taycan with a white Taycan following behind you on the A449 heading north. Could not miss that car !😀

Great video on the little quirks and details! Can’t wait to see how my car behaves compared to the earlier build Taycans

Love the tycan and that wrap looks awsome great content yet again 👌 👏 👍🏼

Richard, you have some great tips in here. I have 49,000 miles on my Taycan 4S. I have toggled on and off that battery friendly state a few times, I agree they should just name it food break. I was going to say that the hand writing feature is very handy if you are driving and navigating to a destination that the voice recognition does not handle. I have found that it’s fairly easy to write in a location while still looking at the road and once you enter enough, glanced down and select the correct entry. I did also feature the passenger displays so if I have a copilot, they can type into the keyboard while in motion on that display.

I love the Porsche Taycan, especially the Sport Turismo version. However, Porsche options are ridiculous - for the Taycan you need to add ~£20k of options just to get it up to the base spec of cars in the £40k range 😱

Loving cars and putting everything into them is not being spoiled. Its having passion.

One of the better Taycan info vids I have seen

I've been waiting for this review, i have one already and im super happy with it. Thank for nice review.

Good video as always. Thanks.

@2:10 - that implies that petrol heads say all petrol cars are fast... about 80% of the UK cuts about in cars that can barely hit 100mph on a smooth autobahn in their current condition and do 0-60 in about 2 years. An EV for an "average joe" is a massive performance upgrade in a vast majority of all petrol to EV comparisons. Oh and then there's diesel 😂

Great review Richard. On my 4th Taycan now and can’t find anything better right now on the ev market.

Beautiful car but that wrap makes it looking even better, Porsches are a dream to drive but they still have a lot to learn from the likes of Tesla etc… hopefully your reviews will wake them up at some point 😂 keep up the good work! 👏

I think I prefer it in white, the "mission e" original! Those wheels 😍

Seen this in the flesh before I started following or had just started at a EV show at Gaydon last year. You were probably standing beside it that Saturday near the front entrance on the grass. I like the Taycan it just looks the part. I can only imagine the second gen of these will be even better. Still lacking the tech of Tesla but what an interior ok it’s a £120k Car it should look a bit special. I hate things you spot and think ho did they miss this. I’m Glad Waze works, I use it on my travels and when I said I was down at Gaydon motor museum that weekend at the EV show I’d driven from Glasgow😁 It sounds like the Tech it just needs to be a bit smarter in the Taycan. But it is the EV I’d have if money was no issue. I bought a petrol BMW factory ordered split new and it was the first of a new generation think I was like the twelfth on the U.K. roads so much so people noticed and pointed. But never again it was in 18 times for faults, fixes and failures - it sat at a dealers for a month they wouldn’t let me drive it while they waited on parts ok I had a lovely loaner but still. I’d love to do the NC 500 in Scotland in that Taycan and I drive like a nun or so people tell me 😁 I’m just careful. So really Porsche it’s a report card 3.5 out of 5 could do better but still great. Still one of the best in-depth channels covering what people really want to know.

Great detailed video... Thanks. Really sad that even the Taycan at over £100k is plagued by VAG's crap infotainment. Not remembering your radio station is unbelievable!

12:10 I like it that they not put on everything standard. that makes it so you can take what you want. and makes it possible, to get a good car also cheaper because you do not select all the "standard" options it is on other brands. :)

Another good one Richard 👏

Great video. What’s the range like?

My 'top of the range?' Kona came with adaptive cruise control and folding wing mirrors as standard. No Bentayga calipers though.

Agree with you about slowing the charging speed Richard…

That wrap is fire

Great video mate

The martini look is cool 🎉

One of a kind for sure. ☺️

I’d love the other Taycan…gorgeous 😜

I set my two shortcuts exactly the same. :)

At what speed must you be driving to lift the car, such as before approaching a speed bump? Additionally, is it necessary to lift the car over every speed bump when driving in normal mode? Thanks.

Good and fair(ish) review. I do resonate with your feelings about it being a keeper and sense that if I let mine go I would end up regretting instantaneously - that said, to ease myself away from it - a change to the ST GTS flavour may be the way to go - but with supply and wait times to get one taking eons or even light years away, something else may end up trumping it given the explosion of offerings beginning to emerge from the upper end of the EV market - so its still a keeper for me - as you rightly say, its a sense of occasion neither a Tesla or etron GT can deliver

Great video. The only thing that stopped me from getting the Porsche over a Tesla was the range. Guy in Porsche said the real world range on a cold day won’t exceed 190 miles. I probably would have dealt with that if the waiting time for a new one also wasn’t 18months to 2 years.

Great and useful video Richard for somebody waiting for delivery. Do you recommend Rear axle steering for better turning radius

Talk type would be the the best thing I believe

I got a Tesla, I usually run it in Chili mode, so I am quite happy

i aint an EV fan, but seeing the Taycan and Hyundai's N Vision 74 (hopefully it'll be released) i want one now lol. i feel like if i'm buying an EV, i want it to be an absurd one.

Folding wing mirrors is an option on a £85k car? Cheque please.

That Dirty Martini wrap looks like a giant seagul took a dump on your tycan. White one looks OK though

I’m the U.K. 70 mph ! Mmm but everyone does 80mph. I was in the Netherlands where the limit is 100kph and no one dares travel at 101 kph. The loony greens are making the laws.

Complimenti bella spiegazione, mi hai insegnato cose che ...non conoscevo, grazie, ma ti sei dimenticato di spiegare tutto quello che si può fare chiamando " hey Porsche"

Hi Richard your video are always interesting. I have a question for you: how good is the handling of M3P lowered with ohlins suspensions and Redwood sway bars you drove in a previous video, compared to this porsche tycan?

Love👍

One pedal driving is a must, one of the best things with EVs . Hope Porsche fix it via a system update. And it should remember your settings, so you don't have to do them every time. Does it support more users? So it change to your settings when it detects your phone, set the drive settings, seats etc?

Interesting that you're getting 226 miles for 93% SoC. My CT4S with the uPdate only offers me around 210 miles for 99% SoC. I need to investigate why that is...

You are welcome Richard! 😇😂

Nice intro

People complain a lot about the infotainment but everyone uses car play now and the car infotainment is pretty much not used by the younger generations

Another great video - thank you.Any thoughts on tyre wear and cost ? 🙋🏻‍♂️👍🏻

That dirty martini 😍😍😍😍

The car is only 3 years old... a bunch of software updates got to be delayed during the Covid 19 shutdown. This car a taycan turbo s fully spec'd is still 125k less than an Aston Martin DBS and Aston is using old mercedes infotainment technology. It's all perspective

Would like you to borrow a Sport Turismo / Cross Turismo for review

Apple Car play is simply ugly. It’s fine in a Daihatsu or similar … but on a mid / upper range car it’s madness

Who wrapped your car?

I'm not sure it's the best promotional vid for a car available to buy on the website for £97k that, if you've had it for a year and drive it all the time, is a car that anyone wants to buy unfortunately 😳

Hello mate

Hurry up and get one of those Plaids....

The only thing I like about that wrap is you don't need to wash the car 🤣

23:36 😂

We aren't allowed to touch our mobile phones while driving (defined as being when ON) but can faff around with complex touchscreen menus, that's illogical.

Richard, the # 13 wrap is nasty looking. Just my opinion. It looks worse than just being dirty. I like most of your other videos.

Rich, Primark don't you mean "Primani"😀

Primark.....too much information.....but get the picture😂

The real question is how much has the battery degraded? No one ever talks about that.

It’s not just the taycan, we have a 992 targa 4 and the drivers door rattles and the drivers seat squeaks. Our model 3 performance and model y both appear to have better build quality.

I heard that even Bill Gates got one.😄

Needs a wash

The standard white one looks awful. The wheels look like some comedy addition. Are Porsche in leave of their senses? Love that it’s EV

Nice looking car, with extremely lacking features as standard. That's why Tesla looks a bargain. Plaid isn't much more than a standard Taycan, knock the socks off Porsche

It's a used EV. You get what it is from others than you buying New and order options and packages...

The good bad and the overpriced

You were clutching at straws there with the complaints. One thing I’m going to pick you up on. You were going on about track mode in an M3P. It may have track mode but the M3P comes with standard road brakes and fluid. No way is that car suitable for a track without extensive modifications. My Taycan has done 20+ track days and has just had its 20k service. It passed with 7mm still on the ceramic brake pads. Never a moment of brake fade even repeating 150 mph to 70 mph all day. I finish a day at Goodwood and take it to Waitrose to do the shopping. No other EV can do this. Next Taycan is on order, to be followed by the electric Cayman in 2025.

Don't sell the Taycan. It will just be very expensive for you.

Video would have been nicer without the political correct apology stuff.

The massive battery pack and heavy weight of this “sports car” just illustrates how far Porsche and VAG are behind Tesla.

I like the Porsche but think I’d rather have a Tesla.

VW are going bankrupt. They can’t afford to develop EV’s from existing revenue … so they have Porsche up for sale.

Why did you put that wrap on it? The Taycan is the only nice looking Porsche ever. But that looks terrible. The car would be better with a petrol engine though.