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Jeremy Clarkson: Panamera Ugly As "Inside-Out Monkey"

Though he has few complaints about the way the Porsche Panamera preforms, Clarkson uses his Sunday Times review to verbally assail the car's looks, calling it unbearably ugly — and he should know. [Times Online]

2010 Porsche Panamera Crashes, Joins Cool Club

The 2010 Porsche Panamera is now cool. How do we know? Though only on sale for about three weeks, an owner has already partially wrecked one — and just in time for Crash Week! [WreckedExotics]

Porsche Planning Electric-Powered Sports Car

Porsche's fancy new President and CEO Michael Macht, speaking at the Frankfurt Motor Show, stated the performance brand is developing hybrid and electric powertrains for sports cars. However, current batteries aren't "sufficient to meet Porsche's strict requirements." Press release below. More »

REPORT: Porsche Panamera, Cayenne Could Be Axed By VW

Looks like the most model prolific automaker could be saying no more model proliferation. According to a report, VW wants to ax the Porsche Panamera, Cayenne and any other "off-message models" when it takes over the company. [AutoObserver]

Porsche Panamera: You're With Me, Leather?

Remember when we caught those Panameras being loaded onto a plane? Here they are at the Monterey Historics. The Panamera's still the perfect car if you're into leather, though any mention of driving experience is notably absent.

Porsche Panamera Drives, Jesus-Style On Chinese Water

Porsche is readying the Porsche Panamera for a world debut at the 2009 Shanghai Auto Show. In preparation, they've set out to prove it can walk on water, Jesus-style, better than the competition. More »

Porsche Panamera Gets Engine Start/Stop With Auto-Shifting Double-Clutch

When the four-door Porsche Panamera hits the U.S. in October, it'll be equipped with both an automatic engine start/stop feature mated with an automatically-shifting double-clutch transmission. Ooh! Technology! But wait, there's more. More »

Porsche Panamera, Turbo Shows Us Insides, Starts At $89,800

The Porsche Panamera, is finally showing us the part that counts: its luxurious 4-seat interior. Oh, there's something about a 500 HP Porsche Panamera Turbo too. More »

Porsche Thinks The Press Is Way Worse Than Bloggers

If you signed yourself up for updates on the development of the Porsche Panamera at the automaker's minisite, you may have already received a packet of super secret advertising containing expensive ultra-glossy "first official images" of the new Panamera. It also contains what we assume is an unintentional backhand at the press corps.

Porsche Panamera GT: In Love, Indifferent Or Incensed?

The first official photos of the Porsche Panamera GT have caused quite a stir, though some would argue that stirring feeling is limited to the stomach area. With a growing four-door sports car market, Porsche clearly made an effort to differentiate the Panamera from production models like the Jaguar XF and concepts like the Lamborghini Estoque. From most angles there's no mistaking the production model from a Porsche, with the design picking up many of the brand's most important cues. Is that a good thing, especially after the lukewarm reception of the Cayenne by design divas? Are you in love, indifferent or incensed at Porsche for stretching the brand yet again? More »

2010 Porsche Panamera Interior: Maverick Approved!

The newest spy shots of the 2010 Porsche Panamera show an interior that just taunts you to do your best Maverick impersonation, surrounding the driver with an F-14 Tomcat-like bevy of switches, toggles and knobs. The radio and navigation controls appear to be operated by the console's touch screen while the leather-wrapped three-spoke wheel is actually devoid of any buttons besides the Porsche-DSG thumb pads. All in all, it's familiar yet upscale — we'll just have to wait to see how well-integrated the technology is. [Teamspeed]

Porsche Panamera Minisite Goes Live With Teaser And Tag Line

The Porsche Panamera minisite has gone live and, aside from the above — an advance teaser commercial — it has a concept sketch of the car, a shot of the nameplate and the marketing slogan: "Four, uncompromised." We assume this will be the marketing direction the folks from Stuttgart will take as they pitch the first-ever four-door Porsche automobile. The video is interesting in that it seems to acknowledge all of the negative press and complaints about the concept of, well, a four-door Porsche. If you want to add your details to their data mining campaign or see the video in full size, head over to the Panamera minisite; otherwise, we've pulled down the teaser images and dropped them below the jump. More »

Porsche Panamera Sedan Teased, Tuned By Roock

This shadowy image of the 2010 Porsche Panamera comes via 4wheelsnews, allegedly from tuner Roock Autosport. It's only the second time we've seen the upcoming Porsche sedan without any camouflage, and we can definitely see much more of the actual car than the first official teaser from Porsche. Though it's not clear exactly what has been modified on the car to turn the Panamera into the Roock RSP 555, but we're sure hoping that's not what the Panamera will look like stock. Turns out, this is just a rendering done previously for Top Gear. Make the jump to see the original. More »

Ferrari Sedan Designed By Fanboy; We'll Take A Pinin Instead

With the likes of the Porsche Panamera, Aston Martin Rapide and Lamborghini Estoque super sedans coming to the Paris Motor Show, it made sense for young Russian designer Krasnov Igor to render up his idea of what a Ferrari four-door should look like. Thankfully, there likely won't be such a product, but if there will, we sure hope it doesn't look much like Igor's design. One could argue that the basic shape, if you squint, isn't all that bad, but the roof treatment and rear end completely ruin the rest of the package, and the wavy body panels make BMW's flame-surfacing look tame. More »

Porsche Panamera Official Teaser Hides The Ugly Parts

This is the first official photograph released of the 2010 Porsche Panamera Gran Turismo, and while it's obviously just a teaser shot, they certainly have done a good job at selecting which part of the car to tease with. The big sedan from Stuttgart may have a handsome face, but we're reserving judgment until we can see its bloated body. We're thinking if they had released a teaser shot of just the back end sticking out, more than a few pre-orders may have been canceled. More »

2010 Porsche Panamera Caught With Its Hatch Open

The excruciatingly slow striptease in which the 2010 Porsche Panamera is engaged has taken a big step today, as this is the first look we've gotten at the car with its rear hatch raised. We see a car loaded up with test equipment and displaying several features visible via the open hatch. There appears to be no power open and close mechanism in action here (thankfully) and it seems the rear seats fold flat permitting a huge cargo area. Also, aft of the front wheel there seems to be a fender detail which could be a styled fender vent reminiscent of the Porsche Carrera GT. Absent still are a comely design and brand self-awareness. More »

2010 Porsche Panamera Interior Is A Sea of Sexy Buttons

The slow, agonizing, bloated, excruciating march towards the Frankfurt Motor Show unveil of the 2010 Porsche Panamera continues unabated, and now we get a pretty good peek at the interior. The Panamera is expected to cross into the six-figure price range, and the interior we see here seems to stand up to that speculation. Leather, tons of buttons, big touch screen, stylish three-spoke steering wheel and Porsche's DSG transmission: all present. We'll just have to see how our bellyaching stands up when the front-engined four-door super-sedan eventually shows up. [AutoCar]

2010 Porsche Panamera Threesome Spotted At Denver Airport

Thanks to a vigilant reader and his handy camera phone, we've been tipped off that there are a trio of lightly camouflaged, Georgia-plated Porsche Panameras out and about in the Denver area today. This terrible trio was spotted at the Denver International Airport, indulging in what will be common for the cars once they hit the streets: picking up popped-collar Germans at the airport. What we find most amusing in this set is that they're at the airport, with luggage, which goes in a trunk — and yet, no trunk action. Interesting. More »

Porsche Panamera Stars in Suspiciously Convenient Spy Video

Two minutes of drive by and street level video seems hugely suspicious to us. 'Oh hey! Look I'm standing in a field in the German countryside and look what happened to pass by - 3 times - a Porsche Panamera.' 'Hey Dieter, what's that over there opposite the corner we are standing on while you videotape traffic?' ' Why Udo, it appears to be the much anticipated Porsche Panamera, imagine our luck.' We're not buying it. This close to its unveiling at the Geneva Motor Show and two solid minutes of footage comes out? We smell marketeers. And no, you aren't seeing things. Yes that is a trailer hitch, thus signifying the end of days.

Electric Bruce! Porsche Releases Details on Panamera Hybrid

Such teases, those Porsche types. Just weeks after telling the German press they're not quite sold on the whole hybrid thing, sales wise, the company's released details on the gas-electric version of its coming Panamera four-door. (Wait, did we say Panamera? Yes, we did.) That means the top-view rendering above, while informing us of the new e-gas tech with cutaway and callouts, provides one of the first representations of the actual car we've seen from the Stuttgart studio. As expected, the modular hybrid drivetrain is the same joint-VW/Audi rig found in the recently revealed hybrid Cayenne. The system allows for joint gas/electric operation during acceleration and electric-only propulsion at highway speeds. That for highly excellent and most precise driving dynamism, no doubt. (Press release after the jump.) More »

Worst. Spy Photo. Ever. And no, it's not just because it's the Porsche Panamera. Seriously — they need to outlaw sub-one-megapixel cameras on phones. (Hat tip to Ronán) [Irish Times]

Porsche Panamera: Test Convoy!

Looks like Wiedeking's boys are on their way to northern Canada to put the Porsche Panamera through some Alberta-grade testing. According to the gent who spotted a convoy of cars and crew, the Stuttgart special forces were headed to Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories. That's about 250 miles from the Arctic circle, where the new slope-roofed Panamera will undergo deep-freeze testing. Didn't anyone tell these boys winter's coming? Guess they'll have to rely on all the whale-like Porker to stay warm when the thermometer mercury makes a beeline for the center of the earth. [via FerrariChat]

A Panorama of Porsche Panameras

High=altitude testing makes strange bedfellows. In this case, a team of German-speaking engineers, holed up at a Colorado retreat with six Porsche Panamera prototypes, found themselves in close proximity to John the tipster, who snapped a few photos of the proceedings. To wit:

I am at a conference at the the Keystone Inn right now in Keystone, Colorado... a ski resort near Breckenridge. There are about 6 Panameras hidden in back parking lot, and a handful of Germans with laptops who aren't too interested in striking up a conversation. They've been here for a few days and the cars are modestly disguised with tarps, plastic, reflective tape, and big plastic crates over the rear spoiler, although there's not much that can truly hide a Porsche the size of an Avalon. The interior was also well disguised with vinyl covering the dash, doors, and even the steering wheel. Made my conference a little more interesting.

Porsche says all this testing will be done by the 2009 Frankfurt show, where the Panamera will hit the floodlights.

2010 Porsche Panamera

Apparently the viewers at the Lane that you can go Fast in Daily aren't the only place that's got readers seeing the 2010 Porsche Panamera cruising around town in Marina Del Ray, CA. Our eagle-eyed tipster Ben captured shots of three of the four-door saloons at a local Chevron station. We'll just drop them in along with our own shots of the Panamera which we've re-included below. More »

2010 Porsche Panamera

Ooh, look — a viewer of the video site that's all about living Daily in the Fast Lane happened upon a very green-looking 2010 Porsche Panamera over in Marina Del Ray, California. It's actually a fairly detailed looking shot of the side of the new four-door from Porsche — check it out if you've got a moment. Of course, only if you'd like to gag at yet another look at the winged hatchback sedan. Of course if that's the case — check out our previous shots of the German beast below. [via Fast Lane Daily] More »

Porsche 928 Replacement, Under Cover?

What's this under wraps at the Porsche factory at Stuttgart? Judging from all those weird shapes propping up the tarp, Dutch site AutoGespot says it could be the 928 replacement reportedly set to arrive after the Panamera four-door coupe. It does have Porsche wheels, though it looks a bit unformed. Kind of like they just piled a bunch of parts up to mess with prying lenses. What say you, oh scrutinous ones?[AutoGespot]

2010 Porsche Panamera...Again

It isn't just the Spanish spotting Porsche Panamera test vehicles on the road. In addition to the video from earlier this morning, our Soo-th Ahf-rikhen friends at Wheels24 procured some shots of the winged wonder down in Johannesburg, South Africa. Why South Africa? Well — as it's one of the markets they'll be offering it in come 2010, why not start getting fellow drivers used to a four-door Porsche sedan. We know we're certainly not used to it yet — maybe Porsche could drive the Panamera around our place a few times — you know, just to help us wrap out minds around the concept. Of course we do already have our own set of spy shots which you can peruse again below. [Wheels24] More »

Porsche Panamera Spotted in Spain

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Porsche Panamera on Video

We saw its wacky wing, now we get to see and hear the proto-Porsche Panamera in action. Not action exactly, but at least it's moving in a forward direction. The burble says this one's got the eight, not the six, but the body screams "easy on the donuts." [via Motor Authority]