According to the German luxury carmaker, the 2017 Porsche Panamera shares only three things with its predecessors – the Panamera name, the Porsche crest on the head, and the goal of being the fastest luxury sedan in the world.
Porsche’s claim is actually back with the fact that the Panamera Turbo will lap the Nurburgring Nordschleife in just seven minutes and 38 seconds, which would be two seconds faster than the Porsche 911 GT3 997 lapped in 2009 and four seconds faster than what the Porsche Cayman GT4 did last year.
So saying that the 2017 Porsche Panamera is a fast car is actually an understatement because the luxury sedan is super fast for a car that weighs 4,400 pounds.
Gernot Dollner, Porsche head of product design, says that everything about the 2017 version of the Panamera is better, including the styling. He explained that the luxury sedan has new engines, a new chassis, and new electronics, and everything that conspires to make it much sportier but still very much a luxury sedan.
Unlike the design of its predecessor models, which some critics refer to as ugly, the 2017 Porsche Panamera is gorgeous when it comes to its styling.
While it has the same basic long, low outline like its predecessor models, the current variant has a significantly less bulbous rear end.