“Holy moly”.

The commentators at Sydney Dragway nicely summed up the quarter-mile run of the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT , which is now officially the fastest showroom-spec car to take on the 400-metre stretch of sticky bitumen Down Under.

They knew it would be quick, but nobody – not even Porsche – thought it would be quite as quick as it was.

Our challenge was simple: take the new pinnacle of Porsche’s electric car lineup to the drag strip to see if we could get it banned for going too quick.

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Yes, even in motorsport you can break the speed limit!

Spoiler alert: we succeeded.

But it took a few days, almost a dozen runs down the quarter-mile strip, and an understanding of what makes an EV tick (or, at lea

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