Porsche Taycan vs Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door EV: 1,153 HP Tri-Motor Rival with Simulated V8 Sound

Porsche Taycan vs Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door EV: 1,153 HP Tri-Motor Rival with Simulated V8 Sound

The Porsche Taycan is one of the few electric performance cars that driving enthusiasts actually like. But now it has a serious rival in the form of Mercedes AMG's new GT4 door electric fastback, and thanks to its simulated V-8 engine, the EV may feel like a laptop with launch control rather than a proper drive around car, which it sells in a meaningful number and claims a lap record. The most important trick of AMG is the tri-motor layout with an axial variation motor. One motor drives the front axle, two motors sit at the rear, each of which independently controls one wheel. This allows for much finer torque control than a traditional dual-motor setup, especially if you're trying to deploy more than 1,100 horsepower without shredding the tires.

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This fine torque vectoring needs to make the car playful. By varying the torque across the rear axle, the AMG holds a rotating slide and then does exactly what the electronic brain wants both rear wheels and corners Which should be one of the most fun EVs to drive to date.

Mercedes AMG GT4 Door

It rides on a custom-built 800-volt EV platform. The new platform will be the fastest charging electric car ever made by a Western car manufacturer. It can charge up to 600kW from 10%-80 % in just 11 minutes. The Mercedes battery pack is also a structural member of the chassis, which not only lowers the center of gravity of the car, but also helps to maintain a very high torsional rigidity. On paper, the GT 4-door EV is very similar to the Taycan, which clearly shows that AMG benchmark Porsche during its creation. Interestingly, Mercedes uses a two-speed gearbox for the rear motor in many other new EVs, but the new 4-door AMG has 2 separate rear motors.

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Porsche has equipped the Taycan with a two-speed rear transmission from the beginning and has not changed the official in the 2024 update. At that time, the most powerful model - the Taycan Turbo GT - was introduced, the first variant of which exceeded 1,000 horsepower. The Turbo GT is already operating near the limits that the current Taycan platform can support. In normal driving, it's still a brutally fast 777 horsepower 4-door. When launch control is enabled, the output rises to 1,034 horsepower. When the temporary over boost feature is enabled, the number rises again, temporarily reaching 1,092 horsepower.

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If you want a more hardcore experience, the Weissach package available lifts the ante, albeit ding important to practicality. It removes the rear seats, adds more serious aero, trims the weight and gives the car a strong track focus. This is clearly throwing everything Porsche has at the Taycan to maximize its track performance. Even with this option pack, the Taycan Turbo GT takes 2.2 seconds to reach 62mph (100 km/h) and which is fast. This means the new AMG is a bit faster, even with the back seats. In its most powerful guise, the 63 model takes 2.1 seconds to complete the sprint, or a flat 2 seconds to reach 60mph (96km/h).

Porsche Taycan Turbo GT First Drive

This is thanks to more power and torque than the Taycan. The 63 model will be 1,153 horsepower, which is not much more than the Porsche, but has quite a lot of torque. The Taycan Turbo GT Weissach has a 988lb-ft (1,340 Nm), while the AMG GT63 4-door EV comes with a 1,327lb-ft (1,800Nm) twist, which makes it a good choice for Porsche. They are very similar in terms of maximum speed. According to AMG, an optional driver's package is required to unlock the top speed of 186mph (300km/h), but with the Taycan Turbo GT, if you choose the Weissach pack, the top speed will increase from 180mph (290km/h) to 190mph (305km/h).

It's worth noting that the Turbo GT  while Porsche is pushing the Taycan far away. The EA platform, which supports the new four-door, can exceed 1,600 horsepower. Does this AMG suggest that there is a more powerful variant in the pipeline? If you want a shot at the Nurburgring EV lap record that Porsche recently regained from BYD, you might want to keep increasing power, but you ran the lightly modified Taycan Turbo GT (with Manthey kit). Taycan is not the only rival of AMG. The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra is almost as close as its rivals. On paper, it claimed its 1,548 hp output and 1.98 second sprint time at 62mph, putting it ahead of the Germans. But while it held the Nurburgring EV lap record before the Yangwang U9 Extreme, even with more power, it was not as fast as the Taycang around the track.

Mercedes-AMG has not announced plans for a lap record attempt with the new four-door, but bragging rights are problematic in this corner of the market. You have to wait around the "ring" to see if you can claim the title of "fastest EV".