A Swiss collector asked Porsche for 30 changes, and got the most personal Taycan yet
When the options list runs out, you go to Zuffenhausen in person
Porsche's Sonderwunsch department exists for customers whose ambitions outgrow the configurator, and this Taycan Turbo GT is what happens when one of them keeps pushing. Around 30 bespoke details went into the car, more than 15 of them developed from scratch. The owner, a Swiss collector who already runs three electric Porsche saloons, sat down with the team in Zuffenhausen three separate times to get there.
The colour is the headline
The paint is a Paint to Sample shade called Nordicgoldmetallic, a warm mix of yellow, orange and red drawn from the Metallic Gold Porsche used in the 1970s. The brief came from somewhere more personal than a colour chart: the owner wanted the light reflecting off Lake Lugano at sunrise and sunset. Depending on how it catches the sun, the car reads as anything from bronze to burnt orange.
The details around it
Rather than fight the gold, the trim supports it. The front badge and mirror housings are finished in high-gloss black Turbonite, while satin Neodyme picks out the bumper inserts and the 21-inch wheels. It is a tighter, more deliberate palette than most one-offs manage, and it stops the car tipping over into novelty.
Inside
The cabin pairs Pepita-patterned seat centres in Black and Slate Grey with Pebble Grey leather, then adds contrast stitching in Crayon and Mojave Beige. Neodyme returns on the gear lever, air vents and door handles, and the storage compartment lid carries an embossed Sonderwunsch logo. Pepita is a houndstooth pattern with roots deep in Porsche's own history, which is the point.
The car underneath
None of the personalisation touches the hardware, and it did not need to. The Taycan Turbo GT peaks at 1,108 hp, making it the most powerful Taycan Porsche builds, and carbon-fibre components make it 75 kg lighter than a Taycan Turbo S. Porsche Active Ride with GT-specific tuning is standard, and combined consumption is quoted at 21.2 to 20.5 kWh per 100 km.
What Porsche says
"Customising a Taycan to such an extensive degree was new territory even for us," said Alexander Fabig, Vice President Product and Individualisation. Holger Gerrmann, CEO of Porsche Switzerland, added that Sonderwunsch "impressively demonstrates how personal creativity can lend a vehicle an unmistakable character." Porsche has not disclosed what any of it cost, which is standard practice for a car that was never for sale.
AutoNext Take
The interesting part is not the gold paint, it is that Porsche admits this stretched its own bespoke department. More than 15 details built for the first time on a single car is a lot of engineering for one customer, and it says something that the request came for a Taycan rather than a 911. Electric Porsches have spent years being treated as appliances by a certain kind of enthusiast, and a Sonderwunsch commission on this scale quietly argues the opposite.
It also shows the value of a customer who knows exactly what he wants. Three meetings in Zuffenhausen and a colour brief based on light on a lake produced something far more coherent than most six-figure personalisation projects. Restraint, it turns out, is the hardest option to tick.
