Buy Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo Price, PPC or HP
If you want a really sporting electric estate , there's nothing out there to beat the Taycan Sport Turismo. You'll pay a lot more for the Turbo models and besides yet more forceful power delivery, there's not much point.
Leasing? Shop around and you might find somewhere willing to lease you a car for less than £1,000 a month after a £10k deposit, but read the small print very thoroughly indeed.
The trouble is that all Taycans have suffered large depreciation recently. Well, that's true of all premium EVs in the UK. But for a while UK business tax regulations ensured we were the world's second biggest Taycan market after China, ahead of the USA and Germany. And that the Taycan was Porsche's number one seller in the UK ahead of the Macan and Cayenne.
Those times have gone and when so many lease deals on 3-4 year old cars came up for renewal, used values hit the skids. We've got to assume not much is going to change with the facelifted car.
On to more practical matters. Get a home charger installed and the running costs should be low – a full recharge from empty could cost as little as £7 if you get your overnight charging tariff right.
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