Anyone see this?

[Youforreal.]

About 40 mins in.

Has to be fake news.

[KittyLitter]

Youforreal. said:

About 40 mins in.

Has to be fake news.

No that is real. Porsche have said they are going to, contrary to original plans, add ICE engine option to the new Boxster and Cayman too....as well as the Taycan and others. They (and other manufactures) are rolling back from betting the farm on EV only options.

[Discombobulate]

I would wait to hear it from the horse's mouth (Porsche).
Seems unbelievable given costs to redevelop and get to market.

[h0b0]

Is that not just a Panamera?

[Cheib]

There is absolutely no way they could “reverse engineer” an ICE Taycan. As has been said they’ve got the Panamera. 718 they can just keep making where all the regs allow although I think there are problems with EU sales.

[is-uk]

It has been confirmed by Lutz Meschke, Porsche’s Chief Financial Officer, in an interview to Auto Drive Europe that Porsche are looking into this. https://autodrive.com.bd/posts/porsche-future-evs-...

[h0b0]

Where in this announcement did you read the Taycan is getting an engine and not the rest of the model range that had engines but were planned to become electric?

Lutz Meschke said:

We are currently looking at the possibility of the originally planned all-electric vehicles having a hybrid drive or a combustion engine. We are currently in the middle of making conceptual decisions. What is clear is that we are sticking with the combustion engine for much longer

[bosshog]

Blimey that’s not going to be cheap for them.

[Discombobulate]

Or it could be gaming - aimed at helping negotiations with legislators...
Taking a leaf out of Toyota's book

[ags11]

There’s no doubt things have changed, but putting an ICE in a Taycan can’t be feasible?
Kinda pointless with the Panamera available anyway?

Scraping the electric Boxster platform would be equally huge, especially as the 718 can’t apparently be continued.

[f6box]

Cheib said:

There is absolutely no way they could “reverse engineer” an ICE Taycan. As has been said they’ve got the Panamera. 718 they can just keep making where all the regs allow although I think there are problems with EU sales.

Agree, there's no way they convert the Taycan on its current platform to combustion.

However, the upcoming Boxster / Cayman EV might be doable. From the spy shots, it's pretty clearly on a 992-derived platform (contemporary Cayster and 911 have always been on a single shared platform until the current 992 was introduced and the Cayster wasn't updated) and also the Cayster EV isn't a skateboard battery, it's got a battery where the combustion engine used to be and I suspect like previous Caysters the front half of the car is largely shared with the 911.

Here's hoping, anyway.

[hornbaek]

I would buy a Taycan Gran Turismo ICE in a heartbeat if ever that became available.

[TDT]

As long as they don’t make a next gen 718RS with manual… I don’t care lol.

Tbf… it’s the end for the NA 9k engines, it was struggle for 992.2 GT3 just to kept parity… so with Lambda 1, anything new will have to be FI, Hybrid or BEV.