Porsche Taycan laps Nürburgring 6:55.533

A Nürburgring lap record is really a product demo in disguise. The track is brutal, the stopwatch is unforgiving, and carmakers use it to prove a road car can survive speed, heat, weight, and repeated punishment all at once. That is why Porsche’s new 6:55.533 lap in a Taycan Turbo GT with the Weissach Package and Manthey Kit lands harder than a normal spec-sheet update. It is not just a faster Taycan — it is Porsche saying its heaviest, most complicated EV can now play the same track-weapon game as its GT-badged 911s. ### What actually changed? The big news is the Manthey Kit. Porsche and Manthey already do these track-focused packages for several 911 GT cars, but this is the first one built for an electric Porsche. It will be sold as a retrofit for Taycan Turbo GTs with the Weissach Package starting in June, so this was not a one-off prototype built only to set a time. ### Why is 6:55.533 such a big deal? Because seven minutes is a real psychological wall at the Nordschleife, especially for a big four-door EV. Kern’s lap was more than nine seconds quicker than the previous electric executive-car record, and 12 seconds quicker than the Taycan Turbo GT with the Weissach Package, under the track’s standard record procedure, with a notary present and TÜV Rheinland checking production conformity. ### Who did Porsche beat? Directly, Porsche beat the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra’s 7:04.957 time in the same electric executive-car category. More broadly, the new Taycan time also slips under the Rimac Nevera’s 7:05.298 production-EV benchmark from 2023. The catch is that Nürburgring records are split into the quickest officially timed production EV lap the Nordschleife has on record. ### What did Manthey change? Mostly the stuff that matters when a 5,000-plus-pound EV is trying not to melt its tires and brakes. Porsche says the kit adds lightweight wheels, Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS track tires, suspension retuning, software changes for power delivery and a top speed up from 189 to 192 mph. ### Did Porsche add more power too? Yes — and that is unusual for a Manthey package. Porsche says continuous power rises by 20 kW to 600 kW, and the 10-second Attack Mode boost now adds up to 130 kW. In the simple headline version, this is more grip, more stability, and a little more usable shove coming out of corners. ### Why does this matter beyond bragging rights? Because EV performance has been drifting into two camps. One camp chases giant straight-line numbers. The other chases repeatable circuit performance without the car fading after a hero lap. Porsche is clearly aiming at the second camp. Basically, it is trying to make the Taycan feel less like a very fast luxury EV and more like a proper track tool that happens to run on batteries. ### So what is the bottom line? Porsche did not just reclaim a Nürburgring headline. It showed that the next phase of EV performance is not only about raw power. It is about aero, tire management, thermal control, and confidence over a full lap. The Manthey Taycan is the clearest version of that idea yet — and now it owns the time to prove it.