Porsche Panamera

[Pieters]

Porsche will be adding a new car to their line-up .. The Panamera.
A car with a real backseat
It's not a new fact, it's been going around since 2005, but now they really started testing it...
A lot of European people are asking why this Porsche is needed? But they asked the same question regarding the Cayenne and it became a huge succes; so we'll wait and see.
The release will be in 2009... with the Panamera, Porsche will use technique elements of both the Cayenne and Carrera GT. Standard motorization will be a 4,5 liter V8 engine with 340HP (normal aspired) and a 450HP (turbo) is planned. The top model is to be equipped with a V10, based on the Carrera GT engine, which will produce an output of over 600 HP.



I'll post pictures/scoobs with the dates of release...

The final car will probably be similar:

june 2006:




testing @ Nurburgring september 2006:



october 2006:


february 2007:




Your comments?

Me, I don't really like it, but once they start driving the Belgian roads i'll probably be the first to love it...

[EVILZ33]

looks weird but its definitly gonna have a beefy engine to lug around all that weigt

[Pieters]

Originally Posted by EVILZ33

looks weird but its definitly gonna have a beefy engine to lug around all that weigt

Idd ... as a porsche should

[Drizzle]

Horrible looking.....yet I can't look away.

[mattlikespeople]

can anyone say G35 sedan?

[BlairKunt]

ugly

[sakuraguy]

The Porsche Panamera is a four-door, four-seat coupe, currently still in concept stages, set to be launched in 2009. It will be front engined and rear wheel drive and powered by a modified version of the 4.5 L V8 found in the Cayenne, equipped with the FSI system invented by Volkswagen (Porsche and Volkswagen collaborated on the Cayenne/Touareg sport utility vehicle). Base spec models will be engineered with a 3.6 litre V6 found in the upcoming 2008 facelifted Cayenne, and there is even a hybrid version in the pipeline. Rumours suggest that the V10 engine from Porsche's limited-run Carrera GT supercar may be offered as well, although this is still extremely unlikely given the expense of manufacturing the engine and that Porsche does not currently have a facility capable of producing a suitable number of the V10 per year. A rumour is also around that the V12 diesel from the Audi Q7 could make it into the Panamera

The final assembly of the vehicles will take place in Leipzig. Engines will be assembled in Stuttgart, and the car's painted body will come from the Volkswagen facility in Hanover.

The Panamera is generally considered to be the long-awaited fruit of their 989 concept from the late 1980s; some argue that it also presents itself as a suitable successor to the 2-doored 928, although some amount of debate surrounds this. It will be marketed as a direct competitor to automobiles such as the Mercedes-Benz CLS 55 AMG and Maserati Quattroporte and (to a lesser degree) a less expensive alternative to vehicles such the Bentley Continental GT, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti and Aston Martin Rapide. It is the first V8-engined sports car built by Porsche since 1995, when the 928 was discontinued and will be produced in the new plant at Leipzig alongside the Cayenne. The vehicle has been caught testing at the Nurburgring and the original sketches are a little more sleek than the taped up model spied testing

Artist renderings of the car already distributed by Porsche show a low-slung, four-door sports car with narrow side windows and flowing lines. However spy shots of the Porsche Panamera testing at the Nurburgring show a more blunt car than the artists renderings, it looks a little like a stretched 997 Turbo

The Panamera's name is derived, like the Porsche Carrera line, from the Carrera Panamericana race. Earlier prototypes of four-door sedans such as the 1991 Porsche 989 prototype or the even earlier 4 door 911 based prototype, never went into production.

[Pieters]

Porsche released the pictures today:

Panamera -- 3.6 V6 -- 300hp
Panamera S -- 4.8 V8 -- 400hp
Panamera Turbo (4WD) -- 4.8 V8 -- 500hp

[01mmmz28]

it looks good except for the ass end.....that looks like a Chrysler crossfire rear to me.

[Pieters]

Originally Posted by 01mmmz28

it looks good except for the ass end.....that looks like a Chrysler crossfire rear to me.

I hadn't even noticed that, but it is simular indeed =)

[STIvsSVT]

Horrible. It looks like the design team got lazy, took a 911 front, added a 928 rear, and connected them with 4 doors.

[American Psycho]

Originally Posted by STIvsSVT

Horrible. It looks like the design team got lazy, took a 911 front, added a 928 rear, and connected them with 4 doors.

porsche been doing that for decades

I kinda digg it, 4 doors does look weird. I'd buy one if had 100K laying around.

[Nortad]

maserati quattroporte & aston martin rapide FTW...

[Pieters]

VIDS

Video Porsche Panamera

Video Porsche Panamera 4S