There are two kinds of car people these days. Those who hear the word “electric” and imagine a future of silent white appliances gliding to Whole Foods, and those who hear it and think “what’s left to drive?”.
Porsche, ever the overachiever, has made something for both: the new Macan GTS – its first properly electric one to wear the three letters that used to mean Goes Tremendously Sideways.
This thing’s no half-hearted badge job either. It’s the top of Porsche’s now-all-electric Macan range – the one with all the angry software and all the black trim.
Up to 420 kW (571 PS) from twin motors, 955 Nm of torque, and a 0–100 km/h sprint in 3.8 seconds. Top speed: a neatly Germanic 250 km/h before someone in Weissach decided that was quite enough.
Electric, but still a bit unhinged
Porsche has borrowed the rear motor from the Macan Turbo, then turned the wick up. It’s a big unit – 230 mm across, 210 mm long – with a 900-amp silicon carbide inverter that sounds like something NASA might use to power a Mars rover.
The result is a power delivery that feels instant, violent, and uncomfortably clever. The 100 kWh battery can apparently take 270 kW of charge, so you’ll go from 10 to 80 percent in 21 minutes if you find a charger beefy enough.
Range? Well that's up to 586 km WLTP, which means more like 400 if you drive it like a GTS.
Still a Porsche underneath
The numbers are absurd, but it’s the mechanical tuning that makes the badge make sense. The GTS gets sports air suspension, PASM adaptive dampers, and sits 10 mm lower than the Turbo.
Weight is 48:52 rear-biased, the differential is electronically controlled, and the steering rack talks to the back wheels if you tick the right option box.
Porsche’s engineers even gave it its own electric sport sound – two bespoke profiles, tuned to make the car sound “emotive”. Which, translated, means “less like a dentist’s drill”.
Looks angry, drives angrier
As with all GTS models, it’s finished in various shades of black – black wheels, black diffuser, black trim. It’s what Porsche does when it wants to look serious.
The 21-inch wheels come in Anthracite Grey, but you can go bigger if you’re feeling brave.
There’s also a new Sport Design Package, which the GTS gets first. Expect sharper edges, wider skirts, and just enough menace to make the neighbours tut.
New colours include Crayon, Carmine Red, and the surprisingly cheerful Lugano Blue – the latter being new to the Macan range.
Inside, all the toys
The interior’s covered in Race-Tex, Porsche’s suede-like material that will immediately betray any owner who snacks in the car.
Optional coloured stitching ties it to the exterior – so your Carmine Red paint can continue as Carmine Red seatbelts, dashboard trim, and ‘GTS’ embroidery.
It also gets the Sport Chrono Package as standard – complete with a “track mode” that preps the cooling system for maximum abuse, and an app that can log lap times and sector data. Because of course it can.
Verdict
So, is it still a proper GTS? On paper, yes. It’s powerful, noisy (for an EV), and slightly ridiculous. It might not spit fuel out of its exhausts, but it’s clearly been tuned by the same group of mildly deranged boffins who think SUVs should corner like 911s.
For those mourning the death of petrol Porsches, this might be the first electric one that doesn’t just go fast – it feels fast. Which, really, is the whole point of three letters that once stood for Gran Turismo Sport.
