Porsche’s upcoming Panamera sedan will undoubtedly be the most controversial product to roll off the German automaker’s production line since the Cayenne SUV bowed in 2002, and we now have a set production date to let the controversy begin. The Panamera will begin production in April 2009.
According to AutoTelegraaf, the road-going Panamera will bow at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2009, with production beginning a month later. Porsche will have the capacity to build 26,000 Panameras a year, but will cap production at 20,000 units annually.
Panamera buyers will be able to choose from a range of gasoline engines — a 300 horsepower 3.6L V6, a 4.8L V8 producing 405 horsepower and a 4.8L turbocharged V8 making 520 horsepower. However, the V6 model won’t be available until 2010, with a hybrid-variant coming on line in 2011, according to Car.
The base, rear-wheel drive V6 model will be priced from €80,000, with the range-topping all-wheel drive turbo model topping out at €125,000.



05/27, 6:36 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
The 911’s styling does not translate well into a front engine 4 door car
05/27, 6:44 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
isn’t it a 5 door?
05/27, 6:50 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
No, it is a 4 door coupe, same as the upcoming Aston Martin Rapide.
05/27, 6:51 PM
posted by:
pherarey
this thing will cream the m5, r36, rs6 and cts-v, that’s all that matters
05/27, 6:52 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
trunk lid openning will be tiny, how will the golf clubs fit?
05/27, 6:56 PM
posted by:
pherarey
golf clubs go in your SUV. this car is meant to drive you, three hot females and a buddy to the nightclub
05/27, 6:58 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
I think with 4 door coupe styling you do not want to try and fit 3 people in the back seat, this is for the Porsche enthusiast with a family, who does not want the Cayenne CUV thingy.
05/27, 7:05 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
Where I live in West Hollywood many people are a one Porsche family and the stuff has to go somewhere.
05/27, 7:09 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
It is a 5 door hatchback watch the video if you are in any doubt.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/spy-footage-2009-porsche-panamera
05/27, 7:20 PM
posted by:
pherarey
@ nonamedenton1
i didnt say three people (like you grossly overweight workuddies). I said three hot females. I can fit four of them in the front seat of my audi – just imagine the possibilities with the backseat of this porsche.
did anyone see the teaser advertisement with the rear door open and a beautful woman – leg gracing the back seat? I did
05/27, 7:21 PM
posted by:
howsmydriving
Kinda dumb, but not early as stupid as the Cayenne.
05/27, 7:23 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
Pherarey was it a plucked beaver pap shot featuring Britney?
05/27, 7:41 PM
posted by:
pherarey
haha lacalover, no it was a inverted peach fuzz ringer for paris’s squirt twiddler
05/27, 7:46 PM
posted by:
kitko
It’s actually a very nice car, a proper Porsche – design-wise. Cayenne is ugly as sin.
05/27, 7:52 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
Last time I checked I was not overweight, and had almost no body fat. pherarey, you need to learn how to not be rude, and learn to take criticsm gracefully. My statement still goes since that is the reasosn Porsche has used for building this car in the first place.
05/27, 7:54 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
It is still called a 4 door coupe LaCaLover, even Porsche, the company making the car, says that, I think they have a better idea what kind of car they are building then you.
05/27, 8:34 PM
posted by:
autonut
this site went to ****s: Fairy from West Hollyweird commenting on cars. What’s next: tell us all in the navy? I am ready to puke.
05/27, 10:27 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
autonut: LaCaLover’s Ok. We’re all a little weird here on the west coast. We know the ‘big one’ is coming. I keep one of those Styrofoam boogie boards in the living room just in case there’s cause to surf.
05/27, 10:38 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
Really johnnycanuk, I always viewed LaCaLover as a misinorfmed hippie who blieves anything that is not true as long as it was Leftist propaganda.
05/27, 10:43 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
The beer is stronger up here NoNameDenton1. It tends to increase your tolerance in more ways than one.
05/27, 10:48 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
I am a very tolerant person, except when people say something that is really rude, or stupid
05/27, 10:55 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Welcome to LLN, NoNameDenton1. Hope you stick around.
05/28, 1:33 AM
posted by:
brocky
The Cayenne turned out to be a brilliant car and it helped them in their sales. People thought it would hurt their image of limiting to small coupes but it hasn’t at all. The Cayennes been around for a long time now… if you’re still complaining about it then I can only imagine what else you would complain about in your life. Whatever Porsche makes, other companies tries to compete. I have faith in this Panamera.
05/28, 2:48 AM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
The Cayenne made Porsche profit which keeps them building all the 911 variations and so forth.
05/28, 8:50 AM
posted by:
DeansterTJ
NoName, we’re all a bunch of heathen assholes on this forum. Don’t take anything personally when we sling attacks around. In the real world, we could be arrested and tried for hate crimes for the thigns we say on this board. Welcome!
05/28, 9:33 AM
posted by:
shaver
Johnny only Americans over 40 and people watching their weight drink what you consider American beer anymore. The rest of us have been living the micro brew revolution. I have a 4 station kegerator.
05/28, 9:35 AM
posted by:
xyunya
NoNameDenton1, on this blog nobody says anything smart, pleasant or polite. You stepped into site where contributors are equally mentally damaged as people who run it. We even exchange quips with “journalistic staff”. You’ll get use to it and if you have sense of humor and thick skin will be dishing your own soon enough. I doubt that either Einstein, Brin, Gates or even Jimmy Carter would waste their time on this blog, we all are damaged goods.
05/28, 11:09 AM
posted by:
Z06ified
At the least the thing will be coming with some balls. Still ugly tho.
05/28, 11:13 AM
posted by:
jumpoffit
yes this is all water cooler talk- insults, bashing, trash talking, cars , sometimes women get all thrown into the mix- just roll with the flow or just ignore
05/28, 12:13 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
Whatever Porsche decides to call it the bodystyle is still a 5 door hatchback. A four door coupe is a sedan like the M-B CLS with a separate trunk.
Besides you said it wasn’t a hatchback “Like the Aston Martrin Rapide” which definitely is a 4 door coupe.
05/28, 12:37 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
Lol I’m a leftie Hippie with a Range ROver and an AUdi, nice try.
05/28, 4:02 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
LaCaLover, somehow I think Porsche knows cars better then you.
05/28, 4:33 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
It’s a 5 door hatchback
05/28, 8:08 PM
posted by:
Impulsive
You ****faces can yap all you want … I post FACT and this gaymobile is exactly that … perfect for the wastes in Cali … right worthless ****piece, ‘CaCaLover’?
05/29, 4:04 PM
posted by:
lamboz get a life
ugly as hell regardless of who makes it.