As an all-rounder it promises to be hard to beat. Here is a Porsche five-door estate with some off-road ability to go with its racetrack manners, more room for passengers, an ability to carry bikes on a new Porsche-designed bike carrier and a big hatchback that opens on to 1,200 litres of load space with the rears seats folded down. And if you need more luggage space you can pop a custom roof box on top.
All that and a best of a mighty 761PS (560kW), 0-62mph in 2.9 seconds and zero tailpipe emissions. All boxes ticked then – alas including the one for a likely six-figure price tag. Turismo is Porsche speak for estate, as is familiar now from the Panamera range, but here it is prefixed with Cross rather than Sport. It’s likely a Taycan Sport Turismo is coming – surely it would be churlish not to – but for now the new body is launching in crossover form only.
What makes it a crossover? Nothing more than a few design and electronic tweaks are all that’s deemed necessary for a car already highly sophisticated in its engineering and electronic wizardry. The Taycan is all-wheel-drive already, apart from the latest rear-drive variant, and the Cross Turismo gets a big motor on each axle to turn its 21-inch wheels.