Porsche Taycan 4S Cross Turismo - the ultimate, do everything EV?

Regular viewers will know that Bryan loves a Porsche. And his respect and admiration for the Taycan is well documented here on the channel since he first reported on it from the Frankfurt Motor Show back in 2019. Since then he has attended the UK launch, subjected the Turbo to a full AutoEV Road Test, and even compared the standard rear wheel drive one to Charley Boorman's electric Harley-Davidson. Well here he puts the more practical Cross Turismo variant under the microscope to find out whether or not this might just be the most perfect EV he has yet driven.

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0:00 - Introduction
00:56 - Titles
01:04 - Meet the car
02:20 - Styling
05:09 - Practicality
09:08 - Interior
13:34 - Usability
13:59 - Performance & Handling
22:51 - Pricing
23:45 - Competition
24:42 - Pros & Cons
25:14 - Summary

[hugheskodi]

I love the camera positioning when you present the front interior of the car. I wish all presenters would do the same, instead of focusing only on themselves.

[ericknowles]

You're the best, first video ever watched. Your wit and dry humor with little ego is engaging. Thank you and thank you for the Taycan Cross Turismo. Trying to get one here in the States is challenging. Cross your fingers

[ParlorMan_Acoustic_Guitar]

Happy belated birthday.

I’ve got essentially the same car without the passenger screen, with 20” wheels and in Cherry Metallic. It is bar none, the best car I’ve every driven, let alone owned. This is after three decades as a BMW owner, two Jaguars, an Audi, several Mercedes and an assortment of lesser, but decent cars.

Your criticism of the HVAC controls is well taken. However, with the push of a button (or a cheery “Hey Porsche” if you leave that enabled) you can control all of those functions and many, many more with a voice command - in common language, not scripted commands. Too warm, say “I’m hot” and the car will lower the heat setting. Want to listen to your favorite tune on Spotify? Just ask the car to play it. Navigation, seat heat, ambient lighting, making a phone call, reading or sending texts and emails - all this and much more can be done with a few words while your hands stay safely on the steering wheel. It is indeed the ultimate, do everything EV.

[ronb]

Great review, I love the Neptune Blue. I have had a Taycan 4S for just over a year and over 19k miles. It always puts a smile on my face as well.

[todedo]

Love the review, great work. The 4S CT is now sitting nicely next to me E-class All terrain.

[RaphaelMArias]

Happy Birthday Bryan. I enjoy your review. You’re also wonderful. Could listen to you all day. Porsche is nice too, so much so, I bought my first Taycan. Looking forward to MORE of your Porsche reviews.

[GraemeLeRoux]

As a long time driver of Land Rover’s vehicles, I’d call the Cross Turismo more ‘bad road’ than ‘off road’ capable. But the better ground clearance makes it far more practical; there are driveways around where I live that the Taycan sedan couldn’t get into, not to mention kerbs that would stop the sedan’s passenger opening their door. Then there is the basic characteristic of a Porsche; the drive gets your heart pumping, the price is heart stopping….

[igotthatcrypto]

I have this car in acid green. I had no idea just how much it attention it would draw!…EVERYWHERE I go people are filming me and asking me questions about it. It’s really taking some time getting used to.

[MartinPool]

Great review. The presenter is really charming.

[reinoutdegeest]

I love how this car is designed for driving. Why is the console lid in the middle awkward? Same reason the wireless chargers tucked away: it discourages you to interact with it while driving.

About the UK law banning the usage of mobile phones and not usage of the car’s UI: they got to draw a line somewhere. It’s easy to go on your phone from Spotify to your messaging app or to your social media apps. You can’t do that with the car’s infotainment.

[richardchester]

Another great video. The Taycan Cross Turismo is quite a compelling package (have always previously been leaning towards the etron GT but haven’t heard any rumours yet regarding an Avant). Lease pricing looks pretty competitive on the 4 and 4S Cross Turismo when pitched against a GT (and indeed etron S). Other than the pricing of the car, I too wish that Porsche had physical HVAC controls like the Audi have done with the GT, but also I wish Audi kept the rotary dial MMI such as on my pre-facelifted B9 S4. The i4 M50 looks interesting in that respect in terms of user interface (although I think still uses the touchscreen for HVAC?).

Looks like you had a great birthday to have chance to drive such a fantastic car. Hope you had a good one and keep up the great work.

[da_vortex]

Great video! I purchased my Taycan 4 CT today. I’ve had Tesla X Ludicrous with all max specs for 2 years. But I came to conclusion that I want to try something else too. Tesla’s interior design is just so dull. Porsche knows how to make a nice interior.

[JohnInSale]

Great vehicle, but instead of a well specced one of these for £140k I’d be tempted for a fully specced 2022 Jaguars I-Pace for half the money, could do a lot with that other £75k 🚙🧐

The increase in rear head height is approximately three and a half inches, due to the raised roofline over a saloon Taycan, the 30mm refers to the outside and raised height above the ground, nothing to do with the interior
The 4+1 seating option is worth doing as you can have someone sit there for a short journey or a child etc, but mostly it then gives you 40:20:40 folding instead of the standard seatings 60:40 split 🚙👍🏻

[richardh]

I do admire this car..but an ipace woukd guve me about 90% of what I like about the Cross turismo at about 60% of the cost. Better in some ways even in terms of practicality while being about a foot shorter. Physical climate knobs too! Of course the taycan will handle better and charge faster but in typical daily use I’d never notice. Looks wise they both have angles they look great and others where they look kinda awkward. Maybe I need to wait to see how the macan EV turns out

[ukcarver]

Another great video and I quite agree with you about having to look down on these screens, they are not very safe. Just not picking but I don’t like the colour of that car, I’m sure car makers could come up with some really great colours but they make lots of cars with really dowdy colours. By the way I wouldn’t swop my I-pace for the Tacan..

[izo]

Jolly good, tally-ho and such. Yet one begs to wonder: in what alternate reality do the notions "off-roader" and "21 inches" coexist the same universe?

[Deano]

Are you going to do a review on the BMW ix?

[maxflight]

Utterly gorgeous…. But to get a 4 WD one (compared to a MY ) it’s over £100K…. Difficult to afford.

[auert]

What would be more interesting is to test drive the cheapest version rather than anything with options..

[alanwayte]

There is new legislation pending that will quite possibly outlaw touchscreen and Audi are already looking to introduce buttons