Porsche Mission R review: is this 1,000bhp electric concept the future of racing? | Top Gear 

call me crazy, but this thing looks sick and the interior is actually nice for a concept race car

A concept car that you can actually drive?!?! WHOA. More of this please.

IMO, Tesla made normal people like electric cars, and Porsche made car people starting to like electric cars. The back of that mission R, with the exposed mechanical parts is insane

Love the design and proportions. Those side flaps front and back and the tire exposition are brilliant. What a sculpture.

Now I can have the sound of getting a cavity fixed at the dentist every time i drive.

The Mission R is ... I gots to say it ... *GORGEOUS!!!* Whatever they mean to do with it, I hope they DO move forward with it, because that is absolutely BEAUTIFUL rolling hardware, never mind FAST!

Man Porsche has really been on top of it the last few years.

Love the regenerative braking capable of 800 kw 🤯

I really hope they build a road legal version of this. remove the spoiler and it would look amazing

finally a Porsche that doesn't look like every other Porsche. haven't seen the like since the 928S. well done, hats off.

This should be the new f1 safety car, lewis would be totally happy with it

This is the first electric car that makes me even have thoughts of owning one well done Porsche what an incredible car.

The rear haunches and thick tyres give me a real 70s vibe. I love the look.

I hope we see the successor of the 918 here, at least in terms of looks and styling.

The electric motors on the car almost sound really cool, if they could tweak that some more to make those motors sound cooler it would go a long ways to help market the car as that’s an incredibly important factor for people who enjoy race cars The motors need to sound something straight out of Star Wars, it would also be interesting if when breaking it made another interesting sound

The future of this car is certain for one big reason: noise threatens most race tracks with suburban housing encroaching. Porsche has been building tracks near urban centers worldwide. Very exciting to see EVs evolve away from Tesla designs.

I absolutely love this car, can't wait to see it in action!

The light coming in from the glass top makes the inside look sooo terrific

Dear Porsche, please build a road-going version of this. Thank you.

This electric car, I have to admit it, is starting to show the magic in motorsport that I still haven't found with all the electric sports cars on the market. This is quite interesting

If this is the next cayman, it's about to get interesting

The interesting thing will be how close is this in terms of lap time against a gt4 or gt3 competition car

An awesome machine for sure. If that noise is the future of motorsport though, god help us all 😕

Breaking is one of the most important parts of racing. It would be interesting to see whether/how regeneration gets used so that "breaks don't overheat"

the sound... Jetsons are proud....

We need Porsche in F1 🥺

Porsche is just superior in every way, still i prefer their flat 6 tho

They should make a rally cross series for these!

Everyone loves to say 'same power to weight as a Bugatti'.

Looks great, drives amazing, but man oh man, that electric whine would get old very quickly. 😖

Loving the looks, the sound, and their approach to braking. This thing is sick.

What an eye candy. Speechless. TopGear please give us more on this. What engineers are behind this project, blueprints, more stats, insights please .... and for god sake put Sir Chris Harris behind that wheel.

That noise was unbearable after a few minutes

I have a feeling that when the Stig first sees this car, instead of pushing it to its limit, he'll directly jump to 'integrate' with it

This thing looks like fun. The gap between useable and total capacity was particularly interesting.

that design is absolutely amazing, i really hope they create the production version

One of the best looking concepts ever, especially like how compact it looks.

I really love this car's design, like a LOT. Paired with the fantastic videography and editing of the exterior shots while Ollie was driving, this vid was 🔥I'm excited!

This car looks absolutely INCREDIBLE! So much science and engineering displayed in a beautiful way!

Congrats, great video! Besides all the rest which looks awesome, design and tech wise, there is a small detail I love in the Mission R. It's the rearview cams, subtly integrated at the top of the A-pillars. Really nice touch!

That sound is pure hell!

This thing looks badass! I wonder how it handles with the regen brakes. Is it braking as soon as you lift the throttle or is it controlled with the brake pedal? It's an interesting concept and I'd love to see more of those.

I assume for endurance racing they’ll have to have 2 cars for a team, or develop some sort of quick change system for the battery pack.

So if they're talking about endurance racing with it then how long does it take to charge at a pit stop?

I love the proportions of this car. It’s Porsche but it looks like something different. And I don’t care what anyone thinks- I love the sound.

I never thought I'd fancy owning an electric sports car until now. What a stunning machine.

that electric motor whine does it for me, a hella good soundtrack

Where are they filming this, the track looks cool especially with the Nurburgring banked corner thingy

Imagine they released a version with the GT3's engine in that body... just imagine 🤯🔥

For me, this is the coolest car I have ever seen. Powerful, light (for an electric), compact... the approach of pick up most of the energy you are using and put it back in the batteries instead of going for 500 kg batteries is the right approacho to take.

i love this thing and i also love the fact that it's electric, although... i would also love if they made a special or one version with the engine from the 911 rsr, i think the rsr scream matches this car a lot as well

I'd watch a series of these race

Ask chris harris to drive pls

You can vacuum the entire track in 10 seconds :P

Is that the Porsche NA headquarters in Atlanta, GA off of I-85? I live nearby there.

Now that is a good looking car in my opinion!!! Love the chunky sidewalls, total 60's vibe!👍

Imagine this in a racing game like forza horizon 5 or the new forza motor sport. Great for a hill climb and maybe car pack to buy. (I would)!

I would watch a whole race series of these rather than formula e 👍, I am a Porsche fan boy, but this is special

Imagine a racing series with cars from different brands that are like the mission r

this is honestly one of the best looking cars ive seen in my whole life good grief its so beautiful :O ! i need to get my money up for when they make a road going iteration of this magnificent piece of art

Impressive Car for sure, but it sounds like an army of Giant Angry Mosquitoes

If the new Boxter/Cayman looks like this?! WOW!! what an amazing looking thing, and I like the straight cut gear noise in the cabin, giving sound to an electric car is a good thing.

It actually gets better and better looking the more you look at it.

Just insane! Don't get me wrong I prefer (and only driven for the past 18+ years a manual) but more and more the newer electric cars I find myself wanting more! 😃 Yes my mind continues to be blown with the new and up coming electric car offerings across all manufacturers. 🤯

You can hear from the gear whine they had a speed limiter in the car. Probably also detuned, power output wise.

This genuinely sounds like jet engines 🤯🔥

We need a Nürburgring Nordschleife lap in this with an on-board camera ASAP :D

I want 919 hypercar concept to be limited production road car it looks gorgeous

it looks like a toy car and i love it.

Call me crazy but that’s genuinely one of the best looking race cars I’ve ever seen, outside of endurance prototypes or anything that extreme

This is by far one of the best looking vehicles I’ve seen in a long while

I can totally see the late, great Sabine Schmitz flog this around the Nurbergring Nordschleife.

My mind:Proto 08(roblox jailbreak)

What a car! Looks amazing and makes me less sad to be combustion engines go!

I wonder if they achieve the high regenerative power by having a biiiig capacitor that then charches the battery while you're on the throttle again. They say that it can charge at 350kW but brake regeneratively with 800kW. I suppose they push all that energy into a capasitor. There is only so much energy you will get out of braking from high speed, so the capacitor will probably be fully discharged again when approaching the next braking zone. 800kW is only less than 2,5x more than 350kW so it will take roughly 2,5x the time used for braking to transfer the energy from the capacitor to the battery. This would keep the battery cooler and keep it from being more brutally charged than 350kW. However it would need a sophisticated battery management system and a big capacitor. My 2015 Mazda 3 does something similar with the normal electric system used for auxiliary things. It disables the generator when on the throttle and when coasting it switches the generator to "overdrive" and pumps a lot of energy into a big capacitor, which then slowly charges the standard lead battery.

never did I imagine as a kid that future cars would sound like the RC cars I played with as a child. That is a dam fine looking car but I still hate electric and the idea that all vehicles need to be electric in the future. Choice is always the best option.

I love the look, performance and technology, but for it (or any electric, really) to have a future in racing they need to think of a solution for the absence of thunderous engines. It's the noise that makes for excitement in racing, at least in the long stretches when there's no real action on the track.

Finally an electric car, That sounds like it should, A big R/C car. Love it.

what are the paddles for?

looking forward to seeing this race around Spa for 2 hours total in the 24hour races of the future

This could be a amazing new edition to the 911 lineup

So the tesla fanboys are convinced all of the ice manufacturers are behind tesla by at least 5 to 10 years. 🤣 they clearly haven't seen these manufacturers racing teams. This stuff will trickle down to road cars as they become cheap enough. Look at this battery, in terms of kg per kWh it's half the weight of a model s. plaids battery.

a lot of nice detail shot for car when introduce it

Gonna miss the fizz hearing the noise but damn can’t deny the speeeeeeeeed 😂

0 to 60 miles in 2.5 s, wow, that’s insane. On the other hand, a four door tesla plaid do the 0 to 60 miles in 1.9 s.

The fact that it got no V12, V8 or even V6 makes it boring. You could argue for that for a daily EV but for a race car, fun is being taken away and this cannot be replaced.

Mad for Pikes Peak by any chance? Seems to be made as a VW IDR competitor

that sound is way too loud

ngl I actually like the electric whining sound

Enjoyed that. Kept having to turn the volume down though!

Fun fact they are taking the driver seat portion an making a motion simulator with it. Apparently it will come with the car when you purchase it. I don't know if it will be a part of PlayStation GT series.

The design is amazing. The sound is AWFUL. I wonder if that is on purpose for the concept car because the engineers know petrolheads like sound...I hope they can design that out of performance electric cars. In any case, it needs to be fixed.

I don't care what you say but those electric motor sound just as beautiful as a gasoline car😍😍😍 (Note: i am hardcore JDM car enthusiast)

As many others have noted already, I think Porsche basically just needs to adjust the sound of this and it's going to be a big hit. I love the looks already, can't wait for the Cayman EV! And it's going to be a game changer in electric motor sports for sure. This and Porsche's Mission X are just so next level.

The sound is the same as the flying cars from The Jetsons!!!! LOL

As a Tesla fanboy…..I REALY LIKE THIS 🔥 Porsche needs to build their own charger network so they can maintain their image better as an EV friendly brand. Instead of new dealerships they need a Porsche only charger stations 🔥

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Sounds futuristic, looks cool, the turbo wheel fans look cool, interior is amazing. Not too keen on thick tyres.

Which track was this?

Electric noise really annoying. Hissing too loud