The first time Porsche handed its Nürburgring whisperers at Manthey the keys to an EV, the result wasn’t subtle. It was inevitable.
Meet the new Manthey Kit for the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package—a track-focused retrofit that transforms Porsche’s already absurd electric super sedan into something that sounds suspiciously like a GT3 RS with a battery pack. And because this is Manthey we’re talking about, the upgrades aren’t cosmetic theater. They’re stopwatch weapons.
The headline figure says everything you need to know: a 6:55.533 lap around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. That’s not just fast for an EV executive car—it’s violently fast. With Porsche development driver Lars Kern behind the wheel, the Manthey-equipped Taycan shaved more than 12 seconds off the standard Turbo GT Weissach’s previous record and dropped over nine seconds from the category benchmark. On a track where single seconds can consume engineering departments whole, twelve is an eternity.
What’s perhaps most impressive is how the Manthey treatment follows the same philosophy that made the company’s 911 GT kits legendary: grip first, ego second.
The standard Taycan Turbo GT already feels like it’s rewriting physics in real time, but the Manthey car attacks corners with an entirely different level of composure. Aerodynamics are the centerpiece. A new rear wing with larger end plates, revised front diffuser, aggressive rear diffuser fins, underbody air deflectors, and carbon aerodiscs on the rear wheels combine to produce more than triple the downforce of the standard car.
At 124 mph, total downforce jumps from 95 kilograms to 310. Flat out at 193 mph, the car reportedly generates roughly 740 kilograms of aerodynamic load. That’s enough to make the Taycan look less like a supersedan and more like a low-flying prototype racer.
And unlike so many modern aero packages, this one isn’t designed for Instagram parking-lot credibility. Kern says the difference is immediately noticeable through the Nordschleife’s terrifying high-speed sections, particularly under braking and direction changes. Between Lauda-Links and Bergwerk, he carried 14 km/h more speed than during the previous record run. Fourteen. On the Nürburgring, that’s the kind of number that gets your attention very quickly.
Manthey and Porsche didn’t stop with airflow. For the first time, the kit also tweaks the Taycan’s powertrain. Revised software for the high-voltage battery, control unit, and pulse inverters increases discharge current from 1,100 to 1,300 amps, pushing output to 600 kW and bumping Launch Control torque to 1,270 Nm.
Then there’s Attack Mode, which now delivers an extra 130 kW for ten seconds. In practical terms, the Taycan temporarily erupts to 730 kW—roughly 979 horsepower in freedom units. That’s enough thrust to make most hypercars feel like they accidentally left the parking brake engaged.
The chassis upgrades sound equally obsessive. The forged 21-inch Manthey wheels are larger yet lighter than the stock setup, helped by titanium wheel bolts that trim unsprung mass even further. Optional Pirelli P ZERO Trofeo RS tires are significantly wider than standard, while recalibrated Porsche Active Ride suspension, rear steering, and all-wheel-drive systems sharpen turn-in and stability.
Even the brakes got serious attention, with larger discs and upgraded pads engineered to repeatedly arrest nearly 5,000 pounds of electric fury without waving the white flag halfway through a hot lap.
Visually, the Manthey kit avoids the trap of turning the Taycan into a cosplay race car. Yes, there’s exposed carbon fiber everywhere—wheel-arch vents, side skirts, aero extensions, the towering rear wing—but everything appears functional, deliberate, and engineered with the same ruthless logic as the lap time itself.
That may be the most fascinating thing about this Taycan. It represents a philosophical shift for Porsche’s EV future. Until now, electric performance cars have largely relied on brute-force acceleration to impress. The Manthey Taycan proves there’s another path: one built around aerodynamic efficiency, chassis precision, thermal consistency, and repeatable track performance.
In other words, it’s behaving exactly like a Porsche.
And maybe that’s the real breakthrough here. The Manthey kit doesn’t simply make the Taycan Turbo GT faster. It gives Porsche’s electric flagship something far more valuable in enthusiast circles: credibility earned one terrifyingly quick lap at a time.
Source: Porsche