The latest round of Porsche Panamera spy photos have arrived at CAR, and we continue to see more detail of Zuffenhausen’s super saloon. Our latest scoop pictures of the Panamera reveal a quick glimpse inside the fast four-door, too.
Porsche engineers are using distracting black-and-white chequerboard disguise around the window line to mask the true shape of the glasshouse, but we’re now slowly beginning to see the true shape of the Panamera.
Inside the Porsche Panamera
No, we haven’t been inside Porsche’s new saloon but one of our spy photos affords a quick glimpse inside. Is that a column-mounted gearshift we can see to the left of the steering wheel? Other spy photos have pointed to a derivative Porsche cabin – with the usual cowled dials and group-derived switchgear, no doubt polished up with the help of numerous cow hides on the real thing.
Panamera at a glance
• Launch late 2009
• Hatchback rear, five doors
• Merc S-class size, 475-litre boot
• Seven-speed PDK twin-clutch box
• 3.6 V6 coming in 2010 (£55,000)
• 4.8 V8 with and without turbos
• Hybrid coming in 2011, 30mpg+
Click on the links at the foot of the page to follow our previous Panamera scoops.
Click ‘Next’ to read the official Porsche statement on the Panamera
What else do we know about the Panamera? Well, the official Porsche website now has an entry on its new range-topper, alongside the official design sketch that’s been kicking around for a while:
‘One, two, three. And four. Four seats, four doors. The Panamera, rolling out in 2009, completes our quartet. Following the 911, Boxster/Cayman and Cayenne, the fourth series will be a sports coupé of the premium class and a genuine Porsche.
‘Guaranteed by performance, sporting spirit, exclusivity. And by Weissach, Zuffenhausen, Leipzig. The Panamera shows in principle what holds true for all Porsche vehicles: not one ounce too much, not one horsepower too little. Basically, we were never interested in building a car whose dizzying specifications are felt to best advantage in the car registration papers. Porsche horsepower are felt on the road.’
Hmm. Apart from the depth of marketing drivel manufacturers stoop to, it doesn’t really tell us much we didn’t already know…