The facelifted Porsche Panamera is set to get its world premiere at Auto China in Shanghai later this month, but the automaker has officially released the first images of the reworked Type 970 after they were leaked.
External revisions include a tauter looking front end, with a new bumper offering larger air intakes and a more distinctive transition to the headlamps. The car also gets a redesigned rear section, with revised boot lid, new LED tail lights and a more swept-back rear window the fresh bits. Standard features now include items such as bi-xenon headlights and an automatic boot lid.
New to the lineup is the Panamera S E-Hybrid, which replaces the S Hybrid, with two extended wheelbase Executive versions (Turbo and 4S) joining the party. Meanwhile, the Panamera S and 4S get a new 3.0 V6 biturbo engine to replace the old 4.8 litre NA unit. In all, the Panamera range will now consist of 10 models.
The Panamera S E-Hybrid rolls in offering 416 hp of total system power, up from the 380 hp seen in the current pre-facelift S Hybrid. The electric drive itself offers 95 hp (70 kW), double the power of the S Hybrid’s 47 hp (34 kW) one, and a lithium-ion battery replaces the existing nickel metal hydride unit.
Porsche says that the plug-in hybrid – which can be charged within around 2.5 hours via the integrated on-board charger and the standard Porsche Universal Charger (AC), and less than four hours when connected to a conventional household electrical outlet – has an all-electric driving range of around 18 to 36 km in everyday operation, depending on conditions. It can achieve speeds of up to 135 km/h in all-electric operation. Other figures include a 0-100 km/h time of 5.5 seconds and a 270 km/h top speed.
Elsewhere, the Panamera Turbo Executive and Panamera 4S Executive versions feature a 15 cm longer wheelbase and air suspension as standard, resulting in improved rear seating space and better ride comfort.
As for the 3.0 litre V6 twin-turbo, there’s a 20 hp increase in power to 420 hp over the 4.8 litre NA V8, as well as 20 Nm more torque to 520 Nm, the hike in output achieved with an 18% improvement in fuel economy over the old mill. Next year will see a new 300 hp diesel lump replacing the current oil burner, as well as the introduction of the Panamera Turbo S and Panamera Turbo S Executive.
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I can only say last time it didn’t look nice on photo but looks good in real life. Not sure what’s with the now but it still doesn’t look nice on photo.
So overpriced in Malaysia. In the US, its sold at about US$75,000.
But here, it is about RM1 million. Either you are corrupted and never earned your money or you are a lottery winner, no one who has worked hard for their money will spend RM1 mil for a car when it is only worth RM200,000
Generalisation, too much.
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Ethical businessman paying 100% income tax driving brand new, not recond, S-class; seen before?
If Panamera in Malaysia has everything that an S-class has, then it may be considered by some potential customers.
S + X6 = Panamera + E-convertible, and do you think that is difficult?
Facelift looks like its from the collection of VW parts bin,headlights from a cayman,and the tail lights of a scirocco
Lolx Coz VW own them lolx anyway real car is much better looking than in the photo!
I was never attracted to the original silhouette of the Panamera even in real life, it looks like a 911 with severe allergic reaction. The facelift does at least improve it a bit, with the reworked grill and rear diffuser hiding the fat a little. But still isn’t remotely beautiful.
And it’s good to see a hybrid with a Porsche name. Ferdinand Porsche was one of the pioneer in hybrid tech, contributing to some working but unreliable hybrid powertrain for cars and tanks, pre and during WW2.
It’s quite good looking, at the same time it does looks very ugly either.
Still uglyyyy… Hahahaha…
GT-R is still a faster car
and Preve is still a better car
bmw fangirl, your “joke” isn’t funny the first time, it isn’t funny the past 20 times you repeated it and it still isn’t now.
Some people has no sense of humour
The design theme was luxury sports saloon, I guess.
In the 1st photo, the car looks good.
The wheelbase is long to allow such a good rear leg room which can accomodate ottoman seats which I would recommend.
Still ugly. People bought it just because of Porsche…
this will be it’s shape for the next 50 years ahead. porsche is the laziest car design studio in the world