The reviewer had mixed feelings about the Porsche Taycan 4S before trying it out, but after experiencing the car firsthand, they were blown away by its capabilities.

As soon as we got behind the wheel, we criticized the car's weight, particularly the bisac pack car, which is 16.3 kilos heavier than expected. However, when we switched to race mode, the car came alive, and the reviewer couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and energy. The turbocharged engine provided a significant boost in power, and the torque vectoring system through the front wheels transformed the car's handling.

The reviewer noted that while the weight was still noticeable at the back of the car, it was not as pronounced as they had expected. However, when they got into the brakes, they felt a mix of regenerative stopping power and conventional PCCV brakes. This combination made them mindful of their braking technique, but it didn't detract from the driving experience or their confidence in the car.

The reviewer couldn't resist sharing the news about the Nürburgring lap times, which showed that even Mark Webber couldn't achieve such incredible performance if he didn't have complete faith in the car's ability to stop and balance. This sentiment was echoed by the reviewer, who felt that the Taycan 4S gave them a similar level of confidence behind the wheel.

Next up was the Hotlap mode, which was a true revelation for the reviewer. This feature allowed the car to deplete its battery, providing an entirely different experience from the standard driving mode. The reviewer was amazed by how much faster the car could go, and they found themselves pushing it harder and harder with every lap.

The reviewer noted that, despite their initial reservations about paddles versus a manual gearshift, the Taycan 4S had convinced them that this setup was the future of supercars. They praised the car's ability to adjust its balance mid-corner depending on the torque vectoring through the front wheels and pulling out on corner exit when floored.

The reviewer couldn't help but compare the Taycan 4S to their favorite Porsche, the Carrera GT, which they loved with a gearstick up top. However, they realized that this car was something entirely different and offered an experience that could never be replicated by a traditional manual gearbox.

Ultimately, the reviewer came away from their experience with the Taycan 4S feeling impressed, excited, and maybe even a little bit sad. They acknowledged that this car represented the future of supercars, one that might not align with everyone's preferences or driving style. Nonetheless, they celebrated the innovation and performance that made this car so special.

As the reviewer concluded their thoughts on the Taycan 4S, they couldn't help but feel a sense of awe and admiration for what Porsche had achieved. The car was indeed a marvel to behold, with its electric powertrain, advanced technology, and sheer performance capabilities. Whether or not it would appeal to purists who preferred traditional driving experiences was secondary to the reviewer's own experience – and they were thoroughly won over by this magnificent machine.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe already know an awful lot about Porsche's ultimate Supercar the 918 spider we know it's the most sophisticated Supercar there has ever been with a level of complexity that simply blows your mind we also know that as recently as this summer The prototypes were fearsomely quick but still needed a huge amount of detail engineering to finesse the Dynamics since then a record-breaking 6 Minute 57 lap of the nurur green NCH life had proved that the work had been done and brilliantly what we didn't know and what we were all desperate to find out was just how good the finished car would be now at last that time has come so ride with us real time as the 918 spider reveals its secrets and we experience a truly remarkable new Supercar for the very first time so we have six laps six laps only of Valencia first few Corners are in electric mode and then we work our way through the five driver modes so um we go to sport for two laps and then race for two laps and then we get to press the red button and go for um hot lap which gives you absolutely everything it's got for a lap and then a cool down lap where we reach in but this is bizarre isn't it it is like something from Back to the Future it really is what a strange experience so we're following a new Turbo S as our uh pace car okay so now I switch there's the engine and I'll leave the pdk box to do its own thing to start with just to see how that feels Electric's great but doesn't that V8 sound fantastic I was lucky enough to drive an early development prototype of this car earlier in the year and whilst the engine and the transmission were really impressive the brake were really quite unpleasant the feel was really inconsistent and it just gave you that I've outbreak myself feeling every time you use them hard and I was talking to Frank valisa who's Mr 918 spider basically last night and they knew that the brakes were bad and he said just trust me drive the car tomorrow and you'll see how much progress we've made and I have to say they're so much better I think brakes are always a defining feature of a of a high performance Porsche any Porsche and that's what made the Prototype of this feel so wrong because it didn't have the Finesse and the Precision but this straight away it feels a much more intuitive car to use the brakes there still a slightly strange sensation like you're pushing against a a variable for you can feel a force come back at you through the PEB but it's much more consistent and the things that are being managed within the braking system are they just make your head hurt with the the technology that they're using because the brakes and the electric motors are used for regenerative uh energy they switch the motor to a generator and that alone will give you half a g of braking so they then have to seamlessly integrate the conventional brakes into that process if you want more than half a g of stopping power to do that without you sensing when that transition occurs must take such fine calibration and that's what's taken the time I think they've spent the last five or 6 months just sweating all those details and it's those details that will make this a true Porsche super car that engine is just so angry and so sharp and the stability of the car you know we've criticized it for the weight in this bisac pack car it's 16 30 kilos I think now we're going into race mode and it's just eating up this turbo in front I've had to back right off but yeah the weight of the car again they've they've managed to disguise it so well sorry I'm going a bit quiet in race mode you get a much bigger hit of electric power and you can feel it just you get so much more punch and you can feel when it when you get additional drive and torque vectoring through the front wheels it just transforms the car it just makes it do things that it shouldn't do wow you still feel the weight at the back it's it's still a mid engine car but it's a lot of fun through this long corner I can see the 991 Turbo S is just shimmying and this just feels Rock Solid right had to back off again wow what a brilliant car I just can't take the smile off my face when you really get into the brakes there's still a you can feel there's there's more than one thing going on with these there's the regen stopping power and then you've got the regular pccv brakes as well so you are mindful of that but it doesn't really get in the way of the Driving Experience or the confidence that you have in the car I'm sure you've all seen the the nurur ring lap times and I'm sure you've seen the footage and you can just tell from the way Mark Leaf is driving the car but he couldn't do that if he didn't have the confidence in the way the car is going to stop and in its balance and that's what you feel here wow that is really impressive okay now we get the hotlap mode which is absolutely everything and it depletes the battery it's not regenerating it's giving you everything the car has and it's just again it's eating up this Turbo S like it's Golf GTI or something which is on I have to say much as it goes against my principles I've not been using the paddles this is the car doing every gear shift for me because quite frankly it's going to do a better job than I am wow what a car wow that is a very cool experience you just want to push it harder and harder and harder and it tells you it might be a digital car but it still communicates in a in a language that a lite like me understands it's it's what you want it to do it does what you want it to do you can position it on the circuit with such Precision that is considering I've not driven this circuit before and I've not driven this car before that is Mega really me that is super impressive the balance of the car is it adjusts mid Corner depending on the torque Ving to the front wheels you just you feel it have this nice mid engined adjustability and then on the corner exit when you really floor it it just pulls the car out what a cool thing cool down that wow I have to say much as I love Carrera GT with a gear stick up here and not paddles down here and I really love that car you you just can't imagine this car with a gear stick it just would be totally wrong and it would deny you so much of the overall Driving Experience that this gives you it's the it is the future and unfortunately for people like us we're living through a this an age of transition we we're sort of leaving behind the things that we know and we have to embrace things that perhaps are different and and don't do things as they used to and I think we can celebrate the old and with a car like this I think we can we can celebrate the new it's a totally different experience it's a totally different Challenge and yes you know the car is so much faster than a than a Carrera GT would be and it asks so much less of you as a driver and I think a little bit of all of us would like to think that we can make a difference to how a car goes often uh not for the better but still there's satisfaction in that and this car gives you satisfaction in other ways you just you Marvel at what it can do do you know it may not be to a to a purist the idea of this car that's 300 kilos lighter with no batteries and just that screaming V8 that sounds like heaven to me but you know I came here quite skeptical and quite concerned after the Prototype drive but they really have done so much work to this and it's it makes your mouth dry it makes you heart pump it puts a massive smile on your face and that's what supercars have always done and clearly when you let Porsche build something like this it's what supercars will still do so yeah hats off what a carwe already know an awful lot about Porsche's ultimate Supercar the 918 spider we know it's the most sophisticated Supercar there has ever been with a level of complexity that simply blows your mind we also know that as recently as this summer The prototypes were fearsomely quick but still needed a huge amount of detail engineering to finesse the Dynamics since then a record-breaking 6 Minute 57 lap of the nurur green NCH life had proved that the work had been done and brilliantly what we didn't know and what we were all desperate to find out was just how good the finished car would be now at last that time has come so ride with us real time as the 918 spider reveals its secrets and we experience a truly remarkable new Supercar for the very first time so we have six laps six laps only of Valencia first few Corners are in electric mode and then we work our way through the five driver modes so um we go to sport for two laps and then race for two laps and then we get to press the red button and go for um hot lap which gives you absolutely everything it's got for a lap and then a cool down lap where we reach in but this is bizarre isn't it it is like something from Back to the Future it really is what a strange experience so we're following a new Turbo S as our uh pace car okay so now I switch there's the engine and I'll leave the pdk box to do its own thing to start with just to see how that feels Electric's great but doesn't that V8 sound fantastic I was lucky enough to drive an early development prototype of this car earlier in the year and whilst the engine and the transmission were really impressive the brake were really quite unpleasant the feel was really inconsistent and it just gave you that I've outbreak myself feeling every time you use them hard and I was talking to Frank valisa who's Mr 918 spider basically last night and they knew that the brakes were bad and he said just trust me drive the car tomorrow and you'll see how much progress we've made and I have to say they're so much better I think brakes are always a defining feature of a of a high performance Porsche any Porsche and that's what made the Prototype of this feel so wrong because it didn't have the Finesse and the Precision but this straight away it feels a much more intuitive car to use the brakes there still a slightly strange sensation like you're pushing against a a variable for you can feel a force come back at you through the PEB but it's much more consistent and the things that are being managed within the braking system are they just make your head hurt with the the technology that they're using because the brakes and the electric motors are used for regenerative uh energy they switch the motor to a generator and that alone will give you half a g of braking so they then have to seamlessly integrate the conventional brakes into that process if you want more than half a g of stopping power to do that without you sensing when that transition occurs must take such fine calibration and that's what's taken the time I think they've spent the last five or 6 months just sweating all those details and it's those details that will make this a true Porsche super car that engine is just so angry and so sharp and the stability of the car you know we've criticized it for the weight in this bisac pack car it's 16 30 kilos I think now we're going into race mode and it's just eating up this turbo in front I've had to back right off but yeah the weight of the car again they've they've managed to disguise it so well sorry I'm going a bit quiet in race mode you get a much bigger hit of electric power and you can feel it just you get so much more punch and you can feel when it when you get additional drive and torque vectoring through the front wheels it just transforms the car it just makes it do things that it shouldn't do wow you still feel the weight at the back it's it's still a mid engine car but it's a lot of fun through this long corner I can see the 991 Turbo S is just shimmying and this just feels Rock Solid right had to back off again wow what a brilliant car I just can't take the smile off my face when you really get into the brakes there's still a you can feel there's there's more than one thing going on with these there's the regen stopping power and then you've got the regular pccv brakes as well so you are mindful of that but it doesn't really get in the way of the Driving Experience or the confidence that you have in the car I'm sure you've all seen the the nurur ring lap times and I'm sure you've seen the footage and you can just tell from the way Mark Leaf is driving the car but he couldn't do that if he didn't have the confidence in the way the car is going to stop and in its balance and that's what you feel here wow that is really impressive okay now we get the hotlap mode which is absolutely everything and it depletes the battery it's not regenerating it's giving you everything the car has and it's just again it's eating up this Turbo S like it's Golf GTI or something which is on I have to say much as it goes against my principles I've not been using the paddles this is the car doing every gear shift for me because quite frankly it's going to do a better job than I am wow what a car wow that is a very cool experience you just want to push it harder and harder and harder and it tells you it might be a digital car but it still communicates in a in a language that a lite like me understands it's it's what you want it to do it does what you want it to do you can position it on the circuit with such Precision that is considering I've not driven this circuit before and I've not driven this car before that is Mega really me that is super impressive the balance of the car is it adjusts mid Corner depending on the torque Ving to the front wheels you just you feel it have this nice mid engined adjustability and then on the corner exit when you really floor it it just pulls the car out what a cool thing cool down that wow I have to say much as I love Carrera GT with a gear stick up here and not paddles down here and I really love that car you you just can't imagine this car with a gear stick it just would be totally wrong and it would deny you so much of the overall Driving Experience that this gives you it's the it is the future and unfortunately for people like us we're living through a this an age of transition we we're sort of leaving behind the things that we know and we have to embrace things that perhaps are different and and don't do things as they used to and I think we can celebrate the old and with a car like this I think we can we can celebrate the new it's a totally different experience it's a totally different Challenge and yes you know the car is so much faster than a than a Carrera GT would be and it asks so much less of you as a driver and I think a little bit of all of us would like to think that we can make a difference to how a car goes often uh not for the better but still there's satisfaction in that and this car gives you satisfaction in other ways you just you Marvel at what it can do do you know it may not be to a to a purist the idea of this car that's 300 kilos lighter with no batteries and just that screaming V8 that sounds like heaven to me but you know I came here quite skeptical and quite concerned after the Prototype drive but they really have done so much work to this and it's it makes your mouth dry it makes you heart pump it puts a massive smile on your face and that's what supercars have always done and clearly when you let Porsche build something like this it's what supercars will still do so yeah hats off what a car\n"