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Porsche’s Panamera became significantly more attractive with its 2017 update; now Germany is supplementing it with practicality. The company confirmed that a “shooting brake” Panamera wagon will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, with sales commencing globally later this year.
The new Porsche should take a form similar to 2012’s Panamera Sport Turismo concept and give the finger to Ferrari’s GTC4 Lusso with a significantly reduced price and an extra pair of doors.
Dr. Stefan Utsch, Porsche’s sales and marketing director for the project, confirmed to the United Kingdom’s CAR that the five-door will become available in Europe for 2017 but kept silent about the American market. However the Panamara sells incredibly well in the United States, it would be surprising not to see the wagon eventually make its way across the ocean in limited numbers.
Despite using the nomenclature “shooting brake” the upcoming Porsche is not a two-door wagon, it’ll remain a four-seater with four doors and possess a hatched rear-opening. It also won’t be available as a long-wheelbase model. Cargo volume should increase but interior legroom will remain identical to the fastback Panamera.
That said, the company didn’t commit to a stance on the prospect of a shorter-wheelbase coupe version of the Turismo. “We’ve not ruled it out, but our focus is firmly on the electric cars we have in development,” an inside source told CAR.
While the concept five-door was a hybrid, Porsche informed CAR that the production model will share the same powerplants with its sedan sibling. Hybrid or electric variants should be plausible in the future, however.
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brown please :)
With diesel engine, manual gearbox and AWD.
Ugh…
Porsche….look at what you’re becoming/what you’ve become.
Whored yourself out & emptied your soul.
yeah, no kidding. Hey Porsche, BMW called. They want their marketing scheme back.
(But if only somebody with balls over at Jaguar would commit to making somewhat of a clone of this concept…)
its well known porsche would have gone out of business on just the 911
then they were bought out by VAG and their portfolio exploded
now they sell more cayennes macans and panameras than 911s
and they are one of the top 5 valuable brands and one of the most profitable
so i get it, do the opposite this place says
“Whored yourself out & emptied your soul.”
So… “soul” requires failure and impoverishment to exist?
By gadfrey, I believe I’m beginning to understand at least the broader contours of how lumps of metal, glass & polymers may possess metaphysical properties.
If only Porsche would whore themselves out to make a mini-pickup version of the Panamera…
The 911 is to the Beetle what the Panamera Sport Wagon is to the Squareback.
The Panamera Sport Ute would be the modern edition of the Rabbit PIckup.
Um…I kind of like it. But I am also a soulless whore.
Ditto, I feel dirty admitting this thing appeals to me. But it’s not a shooting brake if it has 4 doors. It’s a wagon, Porsche, own it!
It looks like a fancy tampon.
Maybe that’s intentional as mainly douchebags buy these.
Slightly less hideous and sad than the sedan version, but only slightly.
I’m sure they’ll sell every one they can build.
Will there be a raised version with more ground clearance and all-wheel drive?
If so I may have to cancel the order on my Volvo V90 XC.
I’m in
I need this car in my life! Just not in Virginia with its property taxes…
Terrible.
No offence to those who like it, but that’s the only word that comes to mind when I see it. But, to be fair, that happens with the regular version, too.
I’m definitely not a big fan of Porsches but I can’t see what you’re on about. It looks fine to me. Not overly styled, not understyled and definitely not as ugly as the current Panamera on offer.
I think it’s rather bland, as in, Audi-bland body with a Porsche face. At least the original Panamera was an original and distinctive shape. This…blah! I’m sure they can keep the makers of black and gray paint in the pink selling all they can make.
Now we get to be treated to a bunch of way too public wagon-gasms from people who actually drive stripper Golf 2.5s.
Heh… this is worth having been awakened so early by a charley horse.
Admit it, dal– it’s kind of cute in a ‘what if… Dodge Magnum had lived through the 2015 restyle?’ kind of way.
The console is the part of these I find fussy and disagreeable. Someone at Porsche design used the Photoshop smudge tool on a Ford’s insectoid dash and called it a day :(
Oh, the Magnum… fustest with the worstest in the styling victory of Dick over Brain.
7″ lower that a Fit and they called it a “wagon”.
What point are you trying to make?
Tall wagons are SUVs. Tall hatchbacks are CUVs. Fit is a subcompact hatchback. Magnum is a full-size wagon.
Why must you be insulting?
7″ lower that a Fit and they called it a “wagon”.
Hey, what’s wrong with strippers? They provide a much needed service to sad, lonely men. What did a stripper ever do to you?
What’s that?
Oh, you meant low-spec… gotcha.
Ugh. I just configured a Panamera 4s up to 170k. I’ll have to remember not to crash into one of these. No wonder I pay to have so much extra liability coverage.
Much better looking then the sedan.
Really? The standard Panamera has the advantage of mimicking a four-door 911. The sport wagon looks like an Audi A6 Avant with a Porsche nose. Why would you want one?
How about a 2-door coupe variant of the Panamera?
They could call it the 928.
It looks okay, and I’m sure it runs great and has a beautiful interior. Now if I could afford it I’d give it more thought.
I could afford it. I’d just have to live in it.
At least it has a low center of gravity, which makes more sense than the Porsche SUV duo.