Porsche Panamera Sedan Review

Female Speaker: It's finally here, the Porsche Panamera. Porsche launches its fourth model series. A completely new model still typically Porsche. [Music Playing 00:00:13-00:00:17] Female Speaker: With its impeccable performance and high class interior, the Panamera combines sportiness and comfort like no other vehicle in its class. No other sports car is as spacious and at the same time so fast. [Music Playing 00:00:31-00:00:35] Wolfgang Durheimer: The Panamera has the possibility to bridge the gap between very sporty driving and very comfort driving. You can drive it more or less like a sports car. The response, the handling and also the sound is quite unique as you will find it in a Porsche car and on the other hand we've very established luxury vehicles that were the benchmark for us to be achieved and I think with the Panamera, you also can go on long distance trips. You will have a very quite environment and the car goes very smooth and the drivers and the co-driver will be happy on long distance. Female Speaker: The muscular appearance of the Panamera reflects the many classic virtues of Porsche styling, especially from the side you recognize the Porsche genes that began a long time ago with Porsche number 1. [Music Playing 00:01:27-00:01:33] Female Speaker: Also from the front, the kinship with Porsche's sports cars is unmistakable. With its characteristically shaped headlights, the Panamera shows off old familiar elements, measuring just under 5 meters in length. The Sedan boasts a generous amount of interior space. The trunk of the Panamera S holds 445 liters and with the back seats folded down, an incredible 1263 liters fit in here. That's nearly 10 times as much as in the 911. [Music Playing 00:02:04-00:02:09] Female Speaker: Also on the inside, the driver will find many of the familiar Porsche items like the 5 circular instruments, so typical of 911's and naturally the ignition on the left. There's also a whole lot of new things in the Panamera. Along the new center console, you'll find a number of switches for the different driving modes. In addition, there's also different settings for the air-conditioning. [Music Playing 00:02:33-00:02:37] Female Speaker: Of course the Porsche treats the passengers in the back seat to the same type of luxury. They too have their own center console and each of them sits in their own sport seat. With a clear view in front of them they can enjoy the wonderful Porsche experience to the fullest. Beneath the hood in the Panamera S, a V8 engine. [Music Playing 00:03:00-00:03:06] Female Speaker: Our fast sports car and comfortable Sedan all rolled into one. How did Porsche do it? Dr. Michael Steiner: We did put a lot of technical highlights into the Porsche Panamera. On the one side, we took all of technology from the sports cars the 911 Carrera for example and on the other side from the SUV of the exiting Cayenne car and additional new technology. First, I would like to mention the adaptive air suspension system with additional air volume. This additional air volume gives you a maximum of comfort and switching off a part of the air volume, you get a real sporty set up with the car. When you look at the Panamera, you don't see any spoiler. Reaching 90 kilometers per hour the adaptive spoiler comes out and it's adaptable in height and angled. Thus we can provide best aerodynamics on the one hand and in sport mode, a maximum of down force. The top of Saline Panamera Turbo has two additional flaps that broaden the surface of the spoiler to gain even more down force and we're proud having a Gran Turismo car that has real down force on the real axle. [Music Playing 00:04:31-00:04:36] Female Speaker: The ultimate performance coupled with great fuel economy and that's what you get with this 4-door Grand Turismo and it's way ahead of some of the competitors in this category too. [Music Playing 00:04:46-00:04:49] Dr. Michael Steiner: First of all, I would like to mention the automatic start-stop system. This is first in class with big limousines and automatic transmissions. The engine stops automatically, if you stop at the red light for example and when you lift the brake, the engine starts immediately and you can smoothly take off. This saves in your European driving cycle 0.6 liters and in a typical city driving cycle 1, up to 11/2 liters depending on the Panamera S or the Panamera Turbo. Second, we optimized the drag coefficient of the Panamera with a sleek body and with the spoiler in the rear. Now, this helps to reduce drag and next we reduced friction, friction losses. Both technologies save about 0.7 liters on 100 kilometers. [Music Playing 00:05:54-00:05:56] Female Speaker: The engines available for the Panamera start with a 400 horsepower V8 for the Panamera S and 4S. In the Turbo version you get a whopping 500 which allow the Gran Turismo to shoot from rest to 100 in only 4 seconds. Porsche plans a hybrid version of the Panamera for 2011. [Music Playing 00:06:17-00:06:27]