The Welsh A470 between Builth Wells and Llanidloes is a 47-mile stretch of asphalt that has, over twenty years of road-testing, become my private benchmark. It is wet for two-thirds of the year, cambered against you in the corners that matter, and policed by red kites rather than radar.
The 2026 Taycan Turbo S, in Frozen Berry Metallic, dispatched it in 38 minutes. That figure, for those who care, is faster than any internal-combustion car I have driven on the same road.
The numbers
761 bhp on overboost, 0–62 mph in 2.4 seconds, 416 miles WLTP. None of which tells you anything useful about how the car actually feels.
The feeling
What Porsche has done with the facelift is subtle and important. The torque vectoring is now predictive rather than reactive — it commits the rear axle into a corner half a beat before you do. The result is a car that flatters without lying. You drive faster than you should, and you notice only afterwards.
£167,000 buys you a lot of Range Rover. It buys you one Taycan Turbo S. I know which I'd take to Wales.
