Load more and faster
In the Netherlands, the Taycan is Porsche’s absolute sales hit. You would almost forget that the brand also sells another low model with four doors: the Panamera. The current Porsche Panamera is on its last legs, but in the development rooms in Stuttgart a completely new generation is eager to show its face.
Although Porsche had played with the idea of ​​a low model with four doors in the distant past, this did not really happen until 2009. Although the Panamera, like the Cayenne, was initially received with raised eyebrows by many, the car has now become an indispensable part of the Porsche family. With the current second generation Panamera, launched in 2016, Porsche even introduced a more station wagon-like Panamera Sport Turismo and the Germans have now also managed to translate the Panamera concept into an electric model. After all, the brand is doing quite good business with the Taycan. The success of the Taycan certainly does not mean that there will no longer be a new Panamera. We have already been presented with the new third generation Panamera in a packed test suit several times and now it is Porsche itself that is releasing photos of the new model into the world. It also releases new information.
The Panamera where the adventure started in 2009.
The current Porsche Panamera is here – which Porsche model isn’t anyway? – in an almost unfathomable number of engine versions for the layman. It is available in three different body variants and as Panamera, Panamera 4, Panamera 4S, Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, Panamera 4S E-Hybrid, GTS, Turbo S and as Turbo S E-Hybrid. Three of them are a plug-in hybrid, which you can recognize not only by an extra tailgate, but also by the E-Hybrid part of the name. They all have a 14.3 kWh (net) battery pack and a 3.6 kW charger. The new Porsche Panamera will have four plug-in hybrid versions. They all have a battery pack that, at 25.9 kWh, has considerably more to offer than the battery in the current plug-in Panamera’s and comes with an 11 kW on-board charger. So load more and faster. Porsche also promises that the entire engine range has been revised. The updated Cayenne with a thoroughly revised engine range was also recently presented.
The Panamera Sport Turismo (GTS) of the current second generation.
Is that the only news? No. The new Porsche Panamera will have an equally new PDK transmission and will be optionally available with “a high-end chassis with active damper control and a wide range of additional functions”. Will there be another Panamera Sport Turismo? For the time being, we see no reason to think that the new Panamera will not also have such a body variant, but Porsche is not saying anything about that for the time being. The new Porsche Panamera will make its public debut on November 24.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl