๐Ÿš— 2024 Canadian International AutoShow. Porsche Presenting Five Premieres ๐ŸŽ๏ธ๐Ÿš˜๐Ÿš™

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The 2025 Porsche Taycan and 2024 Porsche Panamera made their North American debuts at the 2024 Canadian International AutoShow, featured alongside the Porsche Vision GT concept car that is being seen at an auto show for the first time anywhere in the world, a commemorative 911 GT3 RS and a record-breaking 911.

The Taycan, which made its world premiere earlier this month, was shown to the public for the first time in Toronto. The presentation of the new car at the auto show was accompanied by the official opening of the Porsche Experience Center in Toronto.

Porsche 2025 Taycan North American Debut

Porsche has given the 2025 Taycan an extensive update. With new front- and rear-end styling with new headlights and taillights, the experts at Style Porsche have further honed the clean, purist design of the Taycan. The new front wings and the flatter headlights give even greater emphasis to the width of the Taycan. All models boast even better acceleration. The new Taycan Turbo S is the most powerful and quickest Porsche ever, with 938 hp and going from 0 to 100 km/h in a mere 2.4 seconds โ€” 0.4 seconds faster than before. The updated Taycan also recharges faster: at 800-volt DC charging stations, for example, it can be charged at up to 320 kW. Thatโ€™s 50 kW more than before. In the first-generation Taycan, the charging time from 10 to 80 per cent SOC at 15 degrees Celsius is 37 minutes. Under the same conditions, the new Taycan takes only 18 minutes despite its larger battery capacity.

Porsche 2024 Panamera North American Debut

The 2024 Panamera โ€” the third generation of the sporty luxury sedan โ€” is characterized by an even broader digital offering, fresh and expressive design, and a greater bandwidth between comfort and sportiness. The new model underscores its sporty character with even more powerful engines and broadens its capabilities with a completely new interior layout and several innovative technologies. The E-Hybrid powertrains deliver greater performance and a new high-end suspension cement the Panamera as the sports car of its segment. The integration of the ownerโ€™s digital ecosystem enables completely new opportunities to interact with and use the vehicle, and it offers an expanded level of standard equipment, including a two-valve, two-chamber air suspension, LED Matrix headlights, drive mode switch on the steering wheel, a cooled smartphone compartment with inductive charging and an improved air particulate filter with GPS-based automatic recirculation.

Ultra-rare Real-life Porsche Vision GT Concept Exclusively Made for Gran Turismo Video Game North American Debut

A Porsche designed for the virtual world is making its real-life North American auto show debut at the 2024 Canadian International AutoShow.

The Porsche Vision Gran Turismo is the German automakerโ€™s first concept study for a car created specifically for use in a video game. Porsche production vehicles have been a mainstay in Gran Turismo video game series since 2017, but the Vision GT was designed exclusively for Gran Turismo 7 for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 platforms.

A life-sized concept of the Vision GT will be one of the exciting showpieces of Porscheโ€™s return to the Canadian International AutoShow, which will also be the iconic companyโ€™s largest presence at the event, with a 10,000-square-foot display on the 700 level of the South Building at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

โ€œIt is great news to be able to welcome Porsche back to the AutoShow, with some interesting and exciting cars to showcase along with the Vision GT,โ€ says Jason Campbell, General Manager of the AutoShow. โ€œThe Vision GT exemplifies the vision and creativity of vehicle design, a showcase of innovative thinking and approach that you can only see at the AutoShow.โ€

While designing a concept car for a video game is free of the challenges that would be faced while designing a production concept, the Vision GT is unmistakably a Porsche. With a sporty height-to-width ratio, an extremely low-set bonnet and very pronounced wings, it displays the brandโ€™s standout design features. The lights and integrated air intakes create a visual link to the design language of the Taycan โ€“ a nod to the carโ€™s purely electric drive. The rear is adorned with a markedly narrow light strip โ€“ a further development of the light signature that is familiar from the 911 and Taycan models.

Inside, the Vision GT has a curved hologram display that appears to float above the steering wheel. Low seating lends to the carโ€™s dynamic feel, while a sustainable approach was taken, such as using entirely vegan materials in the concept.

Porsche Experience Centre (PEC) Toronto

The Porsche Experience Centre (PEC) Toronto will open its doors later this year and become the 10th in the world and third of its kind in North America, after Atlanta and Los Angeles. Located on a dedicated, 20-acre site at the โ€œDurham Liveโ€ development in Pickering, Ont., PEC Toronto will be a brand park and major tourist destination where visitors can experience vehicle dynamics, technology and emotion first-hand with expert guidance from Porsche instructors through various driving modules all year long. This domestic and international tourist destination will include a driving circuit that is more than two kilometres in length, designed by Tilke Engineering to highlight the technological prowess of the Zuffenhausen brandโ€™s two- and four-door sports cars โ€“ in their ideal playground. This will allow customers and fans to immerse themselves in the world of Porsche regardless of whether they own one or not. Visitors of the PEC Toronto will also be able to admire current and historic exhibition vehicles, stop by the cafรฉ and browse the Porsche shop.

Unique Porsche 911 GT3 RS

To commemorate the opening of Porsche Experience Centre Toronto, Porsche Cars Canada commissioned a unique 911 GT3 RS inspiration vehicle. Built in partnership between Porsche Cars Canada and the Porsche Sonderwunsch (special request) team in Germany, renowned designer Grant Larson led the design of this car to show just whatโ€™s possible through the Porsche Sonderwunsch program.

Porsche 911 That Set a New World Record in December 2023

Another premiere in Toronto will be a Porsche 911 that set a new world record in December 2023. Driven by racer Romain Dumas and supported by an international team from Chile, France, Germany, the U.S., Canada and Switzerland, this Porsche 911 set the record for driving to the highest altitude by a car (gasoline/diesel) by reaching the summit of the west ridge of the Ojos del Salado volcano โ€” which measures 6,734 meters (22,093 feet) โ€” located east of Santiago. In context, the peak of this volcano is 775 metres beyond the summit of the highest point in Canada, Mount Logan in Yukon. The basis of the car is the 911 (Type 992) Carrera 4S equipped with a factory-standard turbocharged flat-six engine developing 443 hp (under normal conditions) and the original seven-speed manual transmission. The highest earthbound vehicle was running on eFuels which are made from water and carbon dioxide using renewable energy, enabling a potentially near net COโ‚‚ neutral use of combustion engines, since the COโ‚‚ captured during the production process of eFuels roughly equals the COโ‚‚ emitted during the usage of the car. Porsche has invested in this technology as part of its ambition to power sports cars of the past, present and future.

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