Porsche, arguably the masters at evolution in leu of revolution, might have missed an opportunity, by not making a 928-lineage coupe along side the Taycan.
I have been watching some video reviews of the Taycan 4S, and it is being reviewed pretty positively. Not as viscerally fast as the “Turbo S” version, but appealing as a tech-forward futuristic touring car.
But one reviewer even directly MENTIONED the problem... People think it is a revised Panamera, but it is not... it is smaller. It also has less rear seat room, and no liftback hatch.
It could easily do without the rear doors, and like 911, the size and drivetrain arrangement may as well keep rear jump seats, because the vehicle size is already set, and the space is there regardless.
But a Taycan coupe should NOT IN ANY WAY BE A 911-like form, although the Taycan sedan already arguably is.
I am also not suggesting that a Taycan-based coupe should replace the sedan, but rather be another Porsche hallmark trait... a parallel variant.
It should be the 911 alternative, and not an entry-level car... which in history, was the 928. A GT coupe with different looks, different drivetrain, and a different purpose than 911.
The front end of Taycan is already different, although laid-back flush-fitted headlights would be good. The tail of Taycan already looks good enough to remind me of 928 GTS with the full-width ‘heckblende’ light bar, with the added brake and turn elements at the sides.
All it needs is the trademark side and rear window graphic... Porsche is really doing handsome things with rear windows with integrated spoilers and grilles and such lately... Taycan with a slight deployable spoiler at the base of the rear window, in a fastback hatch arrangement (if Panamera, Macan and Cayenne coupe-ish vehicles can have that... a revival 928 successor MUST)
With those wrap-around trade-mark quarter windows, and a strong forward swept B-pillar, and pseudo-hexagonal coupe doors... and the Taycan’s futuristic curved-glass cockpit... it is right there, ready to be a new successor to 928... perhaps a 921... (929 is an old Mazda)
928 was revolutionary when it was new, being a front-engine V8, rear transaxle Grand Touring Coupe in the 1970s. It can be an evolution of that, and be simultaneously revolutionary as an electric GT Coupe in the 2020s, 50 years later.