• Four doors, four seats
• Enough space for adults
• Two boots, neither is huge

How much space is there?

The Porsche Taycan is between the 911 and Panamera in terms of size, but punches above its weight in terms of interior space thanks to its electric drivetrain. Space up front is plentiful and there’s a surprising amount of room in the rear too – headroom is a bit tight for taller passengers, although this improves if you spec the optional panoramic roof.

Rear legroom is very reasonable thanks to what Porsche calls a set of ‘foot garages’, or recesses in the battery pack in the rear passenger footwell. This improves the amount of space on offer while retaining a low and sporty seating position. However, all of this goes with the Taycan being a four-seater only as standard. You can pay extra for five seats, but the fifth position is more of a perch than a chair, and unlikely to be comfortable on longer journeys.

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In contrast, and unusually for a four-door saloon, the Turbo GT Weissach package turns the Taycan into a two-seater. The rear bench on this model is replaced by a carbon panel and additional storage, to save weight and improve performance.

Boot space and storage

Boot space can often be compromised in electric cars, and the Taycan does suffer a little in this area. More pressingly, the amount of luggage room you get varies with model. While the Taycan and Taycan 4S have 407 litres under the rear lid, in the Turbo and Turbo S this falls to 366 litres. The four-seated Turbo GT has just 326 litres – but if you go for the two-seater Weissach version this goes back up 367 litres thanks to storage where the rear seats used to be.

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The differences are directly related to performance: the faster the Taycan the more space the rear motor package takes up. Still, every model has a further 84 litres available under the front bonnet, which is useful for storing charging cables and so forth. If you need more capacity there’s always the Taycan Sport Turismo or Taycan Cross Turismo, which both feature a shooting-brake-style estate car body and fold down rear seats.

Is it easy to park?

Forward visibility is pretty good in the Taycan but it does have a low seating position and fairly small rear windows.

Fortunately Porsche offers a full set of parking sensors, multiple cameras and various levels of parking assistance.

Safety

• Five-star Euro NCAP rating in 2019
• Lots of optional driver assistance tech
• Extremely good road-holding

The Porsche Taycan has a five-star Euro NCAP crash test rating – and although this dates from 2019 and the test has gotten tougher since, we’re confident it will still look after you very well should the worst happen.

Standard safety equipment includes:

• Full-size airbags and kneebags for driver and front passenger
• Side airbags in front and full-length curtain airbags
• LED matrix headlights
• Lane keeping assist
• Traffic sign recognition
• ParkAssist (front and rear) with visual and audible warning

The facelift introduces new optional HD-Matrix LED headlights. These have 32,000 individual light pixels, and can cast up to 600m ahead of the car. What’s more, they can recognise narrow roads – such as those through road works – and adjust the ‘light carpet’ in front so that it exactly mirrors the width of the Taycan, making it easier to plot a safe path through any restrictions.

Watch: Porsche Taycan crash test video