The Porsche Panamera was not even launched and we can already tell you it will be offered with a choice of three engines and that the base V6 version will be priced from bout $127,000, while the top version, the AWD V8 will go up to $198,000.
The hybrid version will be powered by a combination of 300 hp V6 gasoline engine and a 100-hp electric motor, enabling the driver to select from any combination of the two propulsion sources.
The car will make its debut early next year. At the launch it will be offered with two engines: a 405-hp 4.8-liter V8 and a 520-hp turbocharged variant of the V8, mated to a seven-speed version of Porsche’s PDK dual-clutch gearbox. Top speed in the range topper is said to be 186 mph.
The third version powered by a 3.6-liter V6 is due in 2010, followed by the hybrid in 2011. Porsche is also considering the V10 engine from the Carrera GT, but only if customers will ask for it.
AutoWeek recently attempt a Porsche focus group in California. in there they find out that Porsche is working on a diesel and a targa top version for the future Panamera sedan.
If approved, the diesel engine will be borrowed from Audi’s powertrain portfolio, which includes a 3.0-liter V6, a 4.2-liter V8 and a 6.0-liter V12 found in the R8 TDI Le Mans concept. With performance in mind, Stuttgart will likely choose between the V8 and the V12.
Porsche also showed renderings of a Panamera with a three-panel targa roof, suggesting the likelihood of another Panamera trim level in keeping with the German sports-car maker’s 911 model strategy.
Porsche will unveil the Panamera luxury sedan in March 2009 at the Geneva Auto Show and production will begin in April. The company announced it will limit production at just 20,000 units a year.
Panamera will measure five meters in length and two meters wide. It will weight 1,800 kg. The luxury sedan will be offered with a choice of three engines: a 3.6 liters V6 engine that delivers 300 hp, a 4.8 liter V8 that delivers 405 hp; while the top of the line will be powered by a 4.8 turbo engine that will deliver 520 hp.
Porsche will offer Panamera in both RDW AND AWD version will prices to rank between 80.000 and 125.000 euro.
According to Auto motor und sport magazine Porsche expexts its sales in Germany to cross 20,000 vehicles a year in coming years with the introduction of new model Panamera in 2009.
"I expect the next really substantial volume surge with the introduction of the Panamera," Porsche’s Germany boss Bernhard Maier told the magazine. "We have carried out detailed market studies and concluded that we can sell at least 20,000 Panamera cars annually worldwide."
In Germany, Porsche sells up to 5,000 Cayenne cars annually and the market for the Panamera is bigger, Maier said, adding that a conservative forecast for the Panamera would be 5,000 vehicles in Germany in the first full year of sales.
One more spyvideo / promotional video of the Porsche Panamera. It still look like nothing we would ever want to buy against a Maserati Quattroporte... See for yourself:
That the Porsche Panamera will have a hybrid version, you know already. But here’s a very cool rendering of it!
The Panamera will have a gasoline-electric hybrid driveline when it goes on sale in 2009. The hybrid module will be able to run on gasoline or electric power or a combination of both.
Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, will also be building a hybrid drive version of the new Panamera. This four-door Gran Turismo with sporting driving dynamics so typical of Porsche will boast the proven components featured in the Cayenne Hybrid entering the market at the end of the decade. And thanks to its newly developed full parallel hybrid, Porsche’s Sports Utility will offer average fuel consumption of less than 9 litres/100 kilometres. >> read
Porsche will launch the four-door, four-seat luxury sedan in 2009. The Panamera is generally considered to be the long-awaited fruit of their 989 concept from the late 1980s. The Panamera will be produced in a number of 20.000 units. >> read
Porsche’s four-door, the Panamera, has been spotted testing in California. The photos showed up – of all places – on a Subaru web forum. The car was only lightly disguised, and shows considerable heft in the rear quarters.
Although Panamra hasn’t been unveiled yet you allready know a lot about it: how it will look like, the engine, the mechanics. But what you don’t know is that the Panamera will also be offered in an hybrid version.
The Panamera will be unveiled in 2009 and will go on sale in 2010. It will be priced at £54,000 for the entry-level V6 model up to £84,000 for the range-crowning Turbo (UK pricing).
Next to the 4.8-litre V8, in 2011 Porsche will also offer a softer, eco-friendly hybrid using the (...) >> read
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