The Taycan GTS now holds the world’s longest continuous EV drift on ice, having slid for 17.5 km.
While a Taycan already holds an EV drift record at present, it seems that Porsche ain’t to be resting on their laurels just yet. Such is as aside from securing its all-electric sideways supremacy on tarmac, a GTS variant of its four-door has recently took the title for the longest continuous vehicle drift on ice by an EV as well.
At Porsche’s Arctic Center in Finland on the 14th of January 2025, instructor Jens Richter managed to complete a total of 132 laps in controlled oversteer behind the wheel of a Taycan GTS. Over the course of 46 minutes, he covered exactly 17.503 kilometres in a seemingly never-ending power slide around a 59-metre diameter drift circle.
Commercially available Michelin tires with one-millimetre spikes were mounted on both axles of the Taycan GTS for the successful record attempt. The vehicle was also equipped with a professional GPS measuring device to measure the route precisely, which eventually was ratified by the an official adjudicator from Guinness World Records as having exceeded the prior record of 14.809 km set in China by Wang Zhilong in February 2023 with a Mercedes-Benz.
It is nevertheless worth highlighting that BMW still holds the outright record for the longest drift ever, with an M5 having previously gone sideways continually 374.2 km over eight hours. The Bavarian automaker in fact is currently also the longest twin-vehicle drift on a water-covered track, as it fielded a second sideways M5 to refuel the eventual record-breaking car during its attempt.
With this new ice drift record in the bag, the Taycan therefore currently holds a total of four Guinness World Records certificates to its name. The other two non-sideways titles includes for a Cross Turismo variant to have achieved the greatest altitude change of 5,573 m in an EV as it traversed along the Xinjiang-Tibet route, in addition to a Taycan Turbo S having previously set the speed to beat by a vehicle in an enclosed building at 165.1 km/h.
While a new Guinness record was achieved, it didn’t actually come easy for Porsche this time round. Richter had to initially abandon his first attempt after drifting for roughly 6.8 miles (11 km) because the ice track had started to deteriorate. The team had to switch to tires with smaller spikes and rerun the attempt at night, in the hopes that the cooler nighttime temperatures helped keep the track firm enough to withstand the rigours of a heavy EV sliding across its surface.
