Spied: Porsche Panamera

Yuck.

Read "Porsche Panamera spied" @ Edmunds Straightline

(See post #23 for update.)

Wait a sec?! I could have sworn we saw an image of the Panamera a while back and I thought it was HOT. This, God, let's hope it's just SO overloaded with crap on the exterior it destroyed the looks. And yeah, that spoiler has got to go.

That.. is soooo wrong.

For Porsche's sake, I hope that is extra sheetmetal thrown on the rear to hide the true shape.

Ewww....the front looks good, but the rear windows look melted, and the whole thing looks like Porsche slapped an extra pair of doors on a 911.

I really hope the production model looks better.

Ew Ew Ew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Test mule...hard to say what the production car will look like..

There was a concept illustration a couple years ago that was very sexy...it had fwd opening rear doors, much sleeker, much more 911-ish..

Of course, they could just take the Cayenne and replace the bodywork aft of the rear doors with a conventional C-pillar and trunk..

Probably will look more like this:

or this??

Or this...

Edited September 15, 200619 yr by moltar

the one in the magazine that moltar posted = what this should look like

the one on the website = POR QUE?!?!?!?!?!?!

Yikes.

I don't find any Porche attractive. Those headlights and the same look gen after gen, car after car....ahhhh. I think a sport sedan would do the brand well, though. Then again, I'm not even a fan so what do I know?

Kinda reminds me of the Bugatti EB112 sedan:

Yea, I can't believe they would be using that rear C pillor shape. Otherwise a car like this should probably sell well for them to the big money crowd. I also feel they need to find a new body style to work on. All these variations to the same basic shape dating back to the 1948 356 has been great, even into the 80's but now they've streached it through the 90's and into the end of this decade. For sports cars they have had many other great designs used for racing they could look back on for ideas.

Its so bad now I dont even bother cruising the Porsches at car shows, nothing really stands out anymore. At one time they did but after the past 3 decades.......

The ones moltar posted look amazing. I almost like those more than the Aston Martin Rapide Sedan concept.

Wow... that's...

Wow...

I thought this thing was 2 years away? How can there be a no-camo mule running around already?

I thought this thing was 2 years away? How can there be a no-camo mule running around already?

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There isn't...the car pictured at the linked article (blue one) had a lot of camo that made it look lumpy...the pics I posted are Photoshopped, I presume...

Newer, bigger and better pics here:

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/09/19/spi...rsche-panamera/

They mean it when they say "the best shots yet":

http://news.windingroad.com/auto-news/best...sches-panamera/

Ah, you know...

http://www.worldcarfans.com/spyphotos.cfm/...orsche-panamera

Argh! The panel gaps!

Porsche quality has hit a new low!

Ah, you know...

http://www.worldcarfans.com/spyphotos.cfm/...orsche-panamera

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last gen grand prix. you know, early renderings of this thing were hot, but there recent photos are terrible.

http://www.worldcarfans.com/spyphotos.cfm/...panamera-latest

http://www.worldcarfans.com/spyphotos.cfm/...panamera-latest

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Blah

not even close to as nice as some of the early computer generated photos

Ah, you know...

http://www.worldcarfans.com/spyphotos.cfm/...orsche-panamera

If this one is legitimate, then it's a lot better than I was afraid it would turn out. Granted, not as good as I'd hoped, but still not too bad.

Aston Martion Rapide, please.

Here's some new ones:

http://jalopnik.com/cars/spy-photos/2010-p...ight-281932.php

Oh, I do NOT like.

http://jalopnik.com/cars/spy-photos/2010-p...ight-281932.php

Not as bad looking as I was fearing, but the Aston Martin Rapide looks way better than this.