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Porsche Panamera Confirmed

July 28, 2005 at 10:34 am · Filed under Cars, Porsche

Porsche has announced that it will build it’s Panamera in 2009. The Panamera is a cross-over, having four doors and a coupe-like roofline.


A sketch from Porsche

The car will be a front-engine rear-wheel drive and it will be built exclusively by Porsche, not sharing a platform with other manufacturers like how it partnered with Volkswagen for the Cayenne-Touareg platform.


Artist’s impression

Notice the suicide doors? Mazda RX8 style. Porsche expects sales figures to be at least 20,000 cars per year. Porsche currently sells about 9,600 Boxster, about 14,000 Cayenne SUVs and about 8,000 911s every year.

The Panamera is expected to compete with the Mercedes-Benz CLS and Maserati Quattroporte, as well as the new BMW cross-over coupe 4WD. Engine offerings will be the same as the front-engined Cayenne which comes in 4.5 liter V8 naturally aspirated (340hp) and turbocharged (450hp) models.

I previously blogged about the Panamera here.

A concept version is expected to be displayed this September at the Frankfurt Motor Show. I cannot wait to see it!

Source: CNN, AutoWeek

8 Comments »

  1. December said,

    July 28, 2005 @ 11:03 am

    sleek…and porsche seem to be the only car that maintains the general look although the style varies.. *hats off*

  2. bUttsHAk3r said,

    July 28, 2005 @ 11:22 am

    a 4 door sporty Porsche is wrong. unlike a Cayenne which is a SUV, this just looks a tad bit wrong. and to say it’ll sell better than the Boxster is very positive indeed. Seeing as which, not only did the Boxster bring the marque back to profit, but this new one looks like it will be more expensive than a Boxster as well.

  3. Sashi said,

    July 28, 2005 @ 1:13 pm

    I only just noticed your audio blog link - cool! :D

  4. December said,

    July 28, 2005 @ 3:45 pm

    oh damn..i just noticed the 4 door…now thats weird…its as weird as a proton with no problems

  5. narrowband said,

    August 1, 2005 @ 12:39 pm

    it’s fugly!

  6. norshamhadi said,

    September 3, 2005 @ 6:18 am

    why four dour?porsche looks good with only two doors except for the cayenne cuz its huge….same thing as alwez..the lights..the body..hrmm

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