---
title: "The Porsche Taycan Continues to Outsell the 911, 718, Panamera"
description: "It's still not quite Porsche's volume seller, but it's more popular than the sports cars."
date: "2021-10-04"
modified: "2021-10-04"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/42618/the-porsche-taycan-continues-to-outsell-the-911-718-panamera"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Porsche News"
tags:
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "luxury"
  - "porsche"
  - "sedan"
  - "Taycan"
---

# The Porsche Taycan Continues to Outsell the 911, 718, Panamera

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To Porsche, embracing electric vehicles means taking a serious stab at them, and being willing to let them outshine its legacy models. And it's done exactly that with the [Taycan](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/42024/2021-porsche-taycan-turbo-s-cross-turismo-review-the-autobahn-queen-of-the-future>). This past quarter in the United States, Stuttgart's EV outsold all of Porsche's lineup short of its crossovers.

Last quarter, Porsche delivered 15,289 vehicles in the United States, almost two-thirds of which consisted of the Cayenne and Macan. Next behind them came the Taycan, which with 1,861 sales outsold [the 911](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/42456/2022-porsche-911-gts-first-drive-review-hits-that-911-sweet-spot>), at 1,621. That also means the Taycan outsold the Panamera and 718 (Boxster and Cayman) *combined*; the two account for 1,090 and 753 of Porsche's sales last quarter respectively.

![message-editor%2F1633364198336-pla21\_1093\_fine.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1633364198336-pla21_1093_fine.jpg>)
*2021 Porsche Taycan, *Porsche**

Similar patterns hold true for year-long sales, making the Taycan Porsche's bestselling non-crossover in the States. The 911 is raging against the dying of the light, though, by gaining sales volume anyway, rising 3.4 percent over Q3 2020 and 5.1 percent year-to-date over Q1. It did so despite Porsche's U.S. sales actually declining 1.7 percent from Q3 last year, Porsche attributing supply chain problems (probably chips) for its dip.

Year-long performance is better overall, though, sales rising 29.9 percent over this point last year, eclipsing even pre-pandemic sales volumes in 2019. Porsche is doing *just fine, thank you*, and will surely only do better when the [Macan EV](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/40526/porsche-is-road-testing-an-electric-macan-promises-more-range-than-the-taycan>) arrives in 2023. And whether it challenges the combustion-engined Macan or simply settles in above the Taycan, Porsche will be pleased.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
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