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Is your Porsche Taycan too slow at the Nürburgring? You need this Manthey Kit.
The kit cuts the Taycan Turbo GT’s Nordschleife lap time to 6:55.553 and adds tunable downforce for track-focused drivers.
- Porsche factory driver Lars Kern set a new Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record of 6:55.553 in the Taycan Turbo GT equipped with the new Manthey Kit.
- Manthey Racing, a Porsche-majority-owned team, designed this comprehensive upgrade to enhance track performance, marking the first such kit for an electric Porsche.
- The Manthey Kit enables 1,631 lbs of downforce at 192 mph, while powertrain optimizations increase maximum discharge current to 1,300 amps and standard system output to 804 hp.
- Beating the previous record by 12 seconds, the vehicle establishes the Taycan Turbo GT as the fastest production-spec electric executive car to circle the 12.9-mile circuit.
- Amid intensifying record competition from brands like Xiaomi and BYD, industry observers suggest the need for standardized definitions of 'production' vehicles given extensive modifications involved.
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For several years now, Chinese manufacturers have been venturing into super-fast sports cars and sending them onto the Nürburgring. Not without success: the title of fastest electric production car has been claimed multiple times by Chinese brands. Until now, that is, as Porsche strikes back with a nearly four-second faster Taycan Turbo GT with a Manthey Kit.
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