Porsche’s first EV, the Taycan, has set a new record for the fastest lap by a four-door electric sports car at the hallowed Nürburgring in Germany. The previous record-holder was… well, probably no one, since Porsche is kind of stretching here in the name of claiming that the Taycan set a record.
Automakers love bragging rights, and the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife course is one of the prime battlegrounds. But over the years, the limits of the track have mostly been explored, and so there’s not as much rarefied air left for companies who want to claim they were the fastest around the 12.9-mile course.
This means automakers are willing to make all sorts of increasingly…