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Is your Porsche Taycan too slow at the Nürburgring? You need this Manthey Kit.

Nordschleife-specialist Manthey has developed an upgrade package for the Porsche EV.

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Is your Porsche Taycan too slow at the Nürburgring? You need this Manthey Kit.

Porsche is known for building cars that really are extremely good right out of the box. Yes, they tend to be more expensive than the other German luxury car brands, particularly once the option list comes out. But it doesn't take very long behind the wheel before the driving experience reveals why they're so good. And that's just the regular models; the stuff that comes out of the motorsport department in Weissach—like the sublime 911 GT3—is even more focused. But for some drivers, those who choose to spend their spare time enjoying track days at places like the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany's Eifel Mountains, even cars like the razor-sharp GT3 RS make too many compromises for the road. For those people, there is Manthey Racing. Based at the industrial estate alongside the ’Ring, Manthey is a highly successful racing team—majority-owned by Porsche since 2013—that applies its years of experience making Porsches go even faster around the 12.9-mile (20.8 km) circuit known as the Green Hell to create upgrade kits that will turn the dials all the way up to 11. Read full article Comments

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Is your Porsche Taycan too slow at the Nürburgring? You need this Manthey Kit.

Nordschleife-specialist Manthey has developed an upgrade package for the Porsche EV.

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