Porsche is dropping the Taycan wagon in America, and Europe should feel lucky
For once, the enthusiast's choice survives on our side of the Atlantic
Porsche is killing off the Taycan wagon in the United States. From the 2027 model year, American buyers lose both the rugged Cross Turismo and the sleek Sport Turismo, leaving only the saloon. For once, Europe comes out ahead: our wagons are staying exactly where they are.
What Americans are losing
Two body styles are being dropped from the US Taycan range. The Cross Turismo is the rugged one, with plastic body cladding, a raised ride height and a Gravel mode for light off-road use, a sort of electric all-terrain estate. The Sport Turismo offers the same shooting-brake silhouette without the off-road addenda, a cleaner, lower wagon. Both are, to many eyes, the most desirable Taycans of all. From 2027, US showrooms will offer only the standard saloon.
Why Porsche pulled the plug
The reason is brutally simple: nobody was buying them. Taycan sales in the US peaked in 2023 and have been in freefall since, dropping to just 4,142 cars across all body styles in 2025 and a dismal 607 in the first quarter of 2026. When the entire model line is selling in those numbers, niche wagon variants are the first thing to go. It also continues a pattern: Porsche already dropped the Panamera Sport Turismo from the US in 2023, so this leaves the brand with no wagon at all in America.
America's wagon problem, again
This is a familiar story. The US market has long been cool on estates, pushing buyers towards SUVs instead, and it regularly costs American enthusiasts the most interesting versions of cars Europeans take for granted. There are exceptions, BMW still sells the M5 Touring there, but they are rare. The Taycan wagons join a long list of brilliant estates that Europe keeps and America does without.
The saloon that remains gets better
It is not all bad news across the Atlantic. The surviving 2027 Taycan saloon gains the 105 kWh Performance Battery Plus as standard, supporting 320 kW charging and, in the US, a native NACS charging port. It also gets the new E-Shift system, which uses steering-wheel paddles to simulate an eight-speed gearbox with synthetic engine sounds. So American buyers keep the technology, they just lose the body style enthusiasts actually wanted.
AutoNext Take
The Taycan Cross Turismo and Sport Turismo are, for our money, the best-looking and most usable cars in the entire Taycan range, so losing them anywhere is a shame. But this is less a story about Porsche giving up on wagons and more about the unforgiving maths of a market that simply will not buy them. Europe keeps the good stuff because Europe actually orders it, and that is the real lesson here. If you want car makers to keep building beautiful, impractical-on-paper estates, the answer is gloriously simple: go and buy one.
