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Porsche Taycan Turbo S Looks Epic in Mamba Green

It's safe to say that the launch of the Porsche Taycan didn't go perfectly. With the EV being more expensive than the Porsche Model S, it's easy to pick and prod at the design or the performance on offer. People have even nicknamed the Toucan after the beaked bird.
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But you have to wonder what the fine folks who buy $150,000+ sports cars would think of the Taycan if Tesla didn't exist. How does this stack up against something like the Mercedes-AMG E63 or the Audi RS7?

Color and style is a big part of what makes a luxury car nowadays. After all, you don't spend six days a week at the gym, but the fanciest watch and follow fashion trends just to sit behind the wheel of a potato.

Mamba Green happens to be our favorite color for the new EV, though Porsche could have gone wild. The metallic tone itself is a hand-me-down from the rest of the Porsche model range. You had on the facelift Macan and it was the debut color of the Panamera GTS. But I think it suits the Taycan best of all since it actually looks like a tree-dwelling snake.

So what about the bodywork onto which this color is wrapped? Well, people are calling it fussy, obviously in relation to the streamlined Tesla Model 3. But we think there's still a place for a car with a thousand buttons and design elements. There more time you spend with it, the more you discover its character.

At the end of the day, Porsche just wanted to make the EV that feels good on the edge of handling. Sure, you may have track mode on a Tesla too, but it doesn't get that almost telepathic connection to the road. And 750 horsepower isn't too bad, even if you only have it for a couple of seconds before it goes down to 625.

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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