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The upcoming Porsche Taycan is the brands first pure electric sports car, the companys foil for drawing a few customers away from the likes of Tesla and Audis new e-Tron.We know a bit about its powertrain synchronous motors generating over 600 horsepower but, until now, not a whole lot about its shape.Sure, weve all seen the Mission E Concept, but theres always a chance that concept car beauty can get lost in translation to production, especially once the bed-wetting accountants get involved. Good news: it seems like the Taycan will be one heckuva looker.Porsche has revealed the first detailed exterior sketches of the series-production model. The head of Style at Porsche, Michael Mauer, gave his thoughts on the car in an interview with, erm, his own company.We knew that this new model had to be recognisable as a Porsche at first glance, said Mauer, explaining the 911-esque front fascia and alarmingly swollen rear haunches. Sports cars have a more dramatic width-to-height ratio than other vehicles. Taycan is absolutely unique in terms of its proportions.No kidding. Anyone whose bedroom walls used to be adorned with posters of old Turbo 911s will instantly recognize those rear wheel arches, stretched and flared to the point of being uncomfortable in its own trousers. The style boss said the company benefited from the experience gained with the different Panamera generations, drawing on their work with that four-door car to help design Taycan. Mauer also points out that the team had greater freedom since they werent forced to fit a large combustion engine under the front hood. This allowed them to sculpt the nose so that its not only pretty to the eye but also to the wind; aerodynamics are critical to the overall performance of an all-electric car, particularly its range.Porsche still relies on tried-and-tested clay models up to a scale of 1:1, by the way. While purists may howl at the thought of an all-electric Porsche, they can take solace in the fact that part of its design was undertaken with some pretty traditional
Origin: Porsche shows off the shape of the new Taycan

Construction detour road sign in Montreal Wednesday December 7, 2016.John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette A total of 41 per cent of Montreal’s 1,665-kilometre network of arterial roads are in “excellent or good condition,” a 2018 inventory of the city’s main thoroughfares has found. Sylvain Ouellet, the city’s executive committee member responsible for infrastructure, noted in a statement late May that only 21 per cent of the city’s main roads received a passing grade when the last checkup was conducted in 2015. “The investments made by the city of Montreal have borne fruit,” he wrote. “Montrealers can see that more and more roads have been redone and it shows. Our administration will continue on this course.” The latest survey, which was conducted between July 4 and Aug. 19, 2018, and examined 14,114 streets, found that 39 per cent of the city’s roads were in “very bad or bad” condition, compared with a finding of 55 per cent in the same category in 2015. The examination included assessments of cracks and fissures in road surfaces, variations in road levels and ruts caused by vehicular wear and tear, as well as potholes. The city will divide its road assessments into two categories—arterial roads that will be examined every two years because of heavier traffic, and local, less-travelled streets that will be inventoried every four years. The next assessment of local roads is scheduled to take place this year. The complete, street-by-street results of the city’s latest inventory can be found on its open data
Origin: 41 per cent of Montreal roads in great shape, better than 2015: city