hesperus

click HERE

GeoT3

nice interior.... but that color makes me cringe... I have kids :-)

Erik

Can't wait to own a nicely, barely used one. Also was not aware that they were going to put PDK in the car. Don't want it for my next GT3 but it would probably be great in Panamera

detailersdomain

nice interior but I'm still not sure about the exterior

Spyderidol

Have a look at the car in this video. You may change your mind.
http://www.autobild.de/autobild-tv/?clip_id=1243

CorsicanBB

I feel the opposite: exterior looks quite nice to me but I really do not feel the interior, especially the space-age center console. One of the spy pics showed it and I really hoped it was a decoy, but unfortunately not. It is likely to be a 150,000 $ car, competing with the CLS and the Maserati Quattroporte, which both have much nicer interiors.

MJSpeed

Trying to hard...

N-Dub

Interesting video.. Panamera 4S with PDK....

jcnesq

Dealer told me today the base price on the S will be 89K and I think he said 120K or so for the Turbo. This is much better than the previously rumored price (much higher) and at least makes some sense. When my wife saw the preview booklet a couple months ago, she said "I want one"; told her the prices were way too high. She gets her new Cayenne S this weekend but if I had known the prices on the Panamera I might have considered one for her if it makes her happy. Making her happy mainly means justifying a new GT3 for me!

zellamsee

With the Turbo, and the sport chrono package, I am told that torque goes from 516 to 568, and the 0-60 time is 3.8 seconds!! That is unreal.

CWay27

Every car manufacturer tend to bring all controls ''up there'' and Porsche puts it all down. You possibly can't look at the heating temp without taking your eyes off the road.

Targa Tim

nice interior, getting used to the exterior also. It will steal a lot of sales from S class, 7 series and A8.

mooty

WAY too complicated. i think it would probably be easier to learn how to fly the space shuttle than to drive the pangaga...

Carrera GT

Thanks for the link. Mr Michael Mauer needs to go away. Back to where ever he came from -- he's the "chief" designer and he has chiefly fucd up.

The Pana-mea-culpa is really a disgraceful chapter in Porsche's history. I hope this downfall does not spell the final chapter for such a successful company. 2008 has been the year of "sustained disbelief" leading to "too big to fail" companies simply failing. If you tried in 2008 to tell the world that sub-prime mortgages and undocumented loans were a recipe for failure -- as some did -- you were ushered out of the room. I wonder who in the ranks of Porsche stepped up and said the Panamera is just not good enough by half to compete with an M5 or AMG let alone Maserati or Aston.

Just look at the details -- interesting to see the calipers are not within the wheelbase -- I wonder if this is a "signal" from the engineers to say they don't think this is a car for drivers.

If Porsche is relying upon the Cayenne and Panamera, it does not bode well for future "real" Porsches or Porsche itself. Let's hope that the 2012 Panamera with a bio-diesel electric hybrid arrives in time to save the company from the lunacy of a US$150K 2010 Panamera Turbo that's still not as capable or as powerful as their 2005 Cayenne let alone their 2008 Cayenne (both priced tens of thousands of dollars below the entry-level Panamera today.)

If the prospective Panamera buyer can instead buy a 2008/9 Cayenne Turbo S with PDCC and PCCB at a discount from a local dealer wanting to move metal, why on Earth would a buyer pay as much as a $20K or $40K premium (at relative MSRP sticker) to be first kid on the block with a slower, less versatile vehicle that's surely going to depreciate on a steep curve, will be immediately superceded by a "Turbo S" model and undercut on price by a base "Panamera" model and is simply painful to the eye?

Okay. Time to ignore the Panamera until October and drive one.

TRAKCAR

I like it.

It will make for a nice CPO in 3 years for the wife :-)