The Lapper Gets Dapper: 2017 Porsche Panamera Turbo Full Test

– A Porsche sedan used to seem like a strange idea, and the first one, the Panamera, did indeed look strange. Mixing two incongruent design briefs—911 styling cues and a need for rear-seat head- and legroom—resulted in a four-door hunchback that appeared as if it had been elongated uncomfortably in traction. Each first-generation Panamera we […]

Porsche reveals the sporty 2018 Panamera Sport Turismo Wagon

Late last year, we started hearing chatter that the lovely Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo – a sleek, wagon-ish variant of the Panamera sedan – could debut at the Geneva show and might head to the States. Turns out we were correct. This is the 2018 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo, and it’s stunning for several reasons. […]

2018 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo: A Luxury Wagon with a Wing

– “It probably isn’t just a concept.” That’s what we said when we first set our eyes on the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo wagon concept at the 2012 Paris auto show. We figured it was primarily a design preview for the second-generation Panamera, which launched last year. But we also speculated and hoped that it […]

The 680-HP Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Is the New King of the Panamera Heap

– The new pinnacle of the Porsche Panamera pile has arrived. Called the Turbo S E-Hybrid, this new über-sedan makes a whopping 680 horsepower from a twin-turbo V-8 combined with an electric motor. Porsche is keen to make the connection with the hybridized 918 Spyder; as we learned in our first ride in this complex and […]

2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid pumps out 680 horsepower

Porsche’s most powerful Panamera ever is set to debut at the Geneva Motor Show. And in a nod to the times, and Porsche’s own green car strategy, it’s a plug-in hybrid. The 2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid will pack a total of 680 horsepower and 626 pound-feet of torque from a powertrain that features […]

We Ride at Nardo in Porsche’s Wild 670-HP Panamera Turbo S Hybrid!

– To put Porsche’s new top-dog Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid plug-in sports sedan in perspective, please leap back half a century. While building the 917 sports racer that earned Porsche its first Le Mans victories, in 1970 and 1971, development director Ferdinand Piëch ordered his engineering team to trim weight by any reasonable means. A […]