Car is barely two weeks old, discovered the following ‘features’:

1. Garage door opener refuses to program. Period.
Worked without an issue with 4 previous Porsche, and countless other cars. Not this car. Unacceptable for a Porsche not to get little things ironed out. Makes one wonder what else was poorly implemented. (Note: if your customers have to do hours of research to figure out how to program a garage door opener, you’re doing it wrong).

2. Start/stop resets to default with ignition restart. Annoying to have to press PCM ‘button’ each time I start up. I want less stuff to remember to do, not more.

3. My iPhone has CarPlay disabled in iOS,, but when plugged into the USB port inside arm rest triggers ‘CarPlay Disconnected’ message on PCM screen which I need to cancel out of. Then PCM goes into ‘ipod’ mode, no smartphone connected’ message pops up. But, iPod mode will not play any music not stored on iPhone, i. e. Podcast app, Soundcloud or YouTube will not play through PCM. Only through Bluetooth. iPod isn’t even one of the options to select under ‘Media’ or ‘Source’. Weird implementation, considering ‘smartphone’ worked flawlessly through PCM with CarPlay disabled in my 2017 991.2.

3.1. No info about proper use of USB ports is published in either hard drive or paper manual, so I suspect there’s only one way, plug in and hold on.

4. Climate system is unnecessarily complex and doesn’t work intuitively. I still can’t seem to get the car properly defogged and/or ventilated, despite spending over an hour playing with various settings. Whoever thought it was a good idea to over complicate things with new PCM implementation does not understand Porsche clientele. Not to sound presumptuous, but I suspect most Porsche buyers prefer to spend their time driving not waste it on trying to figure how to make the car work.

5. PDK is fussy, at times confused, in normal driving will be in 7th gear before reaching 35 mph.

6. The driving experience, once PDK makes up its mind, is sublime.

1 month ownership update:

I contacted the dealer, turns out I knew more than they did. Had to walk them through Link/Data Device Manager functions. They admitted the car ‘too new, we’re learning ourselves...’ ‘opened ticket’

a month after delivery, still no Homelink, CarPlay is hokey pokey, turns itself on/off when it feels like it, and can’t be disabled like in previous PCM versions.

Getting used to PDK quirks, works best in Sport mode, less shifting/hunting.

Start/Stop is still annoying.

Semi-Figured out climate controls, less misting now.

Drives, turns and stops like a Porsche. Love that.

Would you recommend the Panamera, knowing what you know now?

Ours gets fussy as well on low gears. But from reading other posts, seems to fade away after a few thousand miles. Only have 1500 so far, and 1 month ownership.

Another annoying tidbit, the memory system fails to work. Seat settings, and sometimes even software settings reset. I thought it was a key issue where it remembers what key you have and seat memory, but nope. I hope software updates fix several issues.

On that note, our car still hasn’t been connected to the Porsche connect yet. That dealer code you get when taking delivery so you can connect your car to your phone and apps, etc, still does not work. It’s been in and out of the shop. Porsche Germany apparently is working on it, 3 weeks later, no results. Quite annoying really as I want the convenience features as well as the safety features most importantly, activated.

Porsche finally replaced the Homelink module after 6 months. Works fine now. Rcb

That depends. If it’s a ‘younger’ driver, in good physical shape with no back issues, and someone willing and able to mess with its new annoying interface, yes. Car drives well. Older driver - emphatic no. Entry and exit not very comfortable due to narrow door frame, combine that with maddening interface, it would be too frustrating of an experience for someone like my dad. I’d get him into an S class.