What we have here is the clearest shot yet of the Porsche Panamera's C-Pillar and backlight. Fast Lane Daily poster mcshin was quick with the shutter and nabbed the green four-door before the chase car could block the view.It's a very chunky rump, but the lines do flow well, in a 911-tied-to-a-tree kind of way. While the camo on this Panamera is pretty light, there are still more surprises to uncover; check out the panel that covers up the middle of the doors. Could there be more coke bottle under there for us to feast our eyes on? We do hope the large spoiler doesn't make it to production as some sort of stylized version of the cliché whale tail. However it looks, we're sure that it'll perform like a Porsche, and we await the day a production Panamera winds up in the Autoblog Garage.
[Source: Fastlane Daily]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
FLR @ Aug 28th 2007 8:05AM
I really hope that the car does not look like that....because that my friends....is U-G-L-Y!
Don @ Aug 28th 2007 4:14PM
AIEEE! My eyes!
Jason Chang @ Aug 28th 2007 8:12AM
I threw up a little in my mouth, but im ok now..thanx
Jim @ Aug 28th 2007 8:25AM
Worst part is it gets uglier the farther forward you go...
stefan @ Aug 28th 2007 8:33AM
Porsche realy doesnt know how to make a sedan.
Devin @ Aug 28th 2007 8:34AM
Oh, hey, it's the last gen Maserati Quattroporte. But honestly, this car is rather plain for being a porsche. After seeing yesterday's Jag XF shots, I would have expected even more out of Jaguar w/ this car. I know the price class isn't the same, but the Rapide is gonna eat the Panamera's lunch.
Carguy @ Aug 28th 2007 8:45AM
At least the Quattroporte looked Italian...this thing looks cartoon martian.
Big J @ Aug 28th 2007 9:00AM
I think it looks increasingly repulsive towards the rear. Appears that they took a normal Porsche and stretched it enough to fit rear doors and a back seat. Totally awkward.
felipe @ Aug 28th 2007 9:03AM
in the link, under the comments 'absolutbb' left this:
saying this THIS IS THE NEW PANAMERA....
http://www.onlyporsche.net/images/stories/2005/20051028_porsche_panamera.jpg
i never saw that.
sadly it seems we are left with the green one above, but
why cant the PANA look like the one in this link.... that is nice looking.
Richard @ Aug 28th 2007 9:11AM
Yeah! But, you know, if Porsche were to build a four-door it would look like ...a Porsche with 4 doors.
So you have to ask yourself how far they can go with a design idiom which hasn't really changed since the, what, 1950's?
I mean, it is a 4-door Porsche, not a Jag, not a Lexus and not a Bimmer (who for their constant mis-direction at least have the "attachments" to explore new designs).
It is going to look like a softly curved - jelly bean - sedan with a Porsche face as the Cayenne is a softly curved SUV with a Porsche face...
...Ugly, but it's the Porsche of 4-doors.
OK! Maybe it is really a 5-door. How does that boot work?
Alex @ Aug 28th 2007 9:19AM
Why are the Car Gods so angry with us? First the XF now the Panamera. Do i really need to crash my car again in sacrifice?
Atomicbri @ Aug 28th 2007 9:27AM
Wow not sure what to say... it definitely is not a great looker in the rear... very heavy handed, nothing like the renderings leaked by Porsche. But it will sell... I was horrified when Porsche had the Cayenne come out. I thought, " A Porsche SUV, no one will buy that!" Was I wrong! I see em all over. People will flock to this car as well.... no doubt.
mikiyas @ Aug 28th 2007 9:37AM
haha... porsche is albout to pull a subaru with this one. They're gonna have to update this thing before it even hits the market the way its going. But yeah, The Aston Rapide is going to eat everybody's lunch when it comes to four door coupes. Except maybe the new Merc CLS and Audi A7. I dont see the Jag XF as a threat to any of these cars. Honestly, I was underwhelmed when I saw the production car. The C-XF was so gorgeous...
mooj @ Aug 28th 2007 10:57AM
oh give it a break. it's sort of endearing, actually, in a awkward manner, and that's more than can be said for any other porsche. it's an odd thing, for sure, but that gives it some character.
besides, imagine it in lustrous production black and sitting on some fat, low-profile tires. it will look like a damn spaceship.
yes, the rapide is agonizingly good looking-- maybe even intimidatingly so. this has a quirkier, more ideosyncratic appeal to me. especially if this turns out to be a solid car, which i only hope is assured, considering its parent.
F451 @ Aug 28th 2007 11:46AM
Porsche has never really produced an ugly automobile...until the Panamera.
Dan Roth @ Aug 28th 2007 11:53AM
I beg to differ. The 356 was UGLY
ckm @ Aug 28th 2007 12:16PM
At least it's in it's natural environment, Los Angeles traffic....
mk @ Aug 28th 2007 12:43PM
They cayenne is ugly. The cayman is not as sleek as a car of it's chassis should be.
This panamera doesn't look as bad as the nurburgring mules and others have lead me to believe, but it is no 911.
Five door is nice. it should actually have some cargo room to go along with four seats.
The spoiler looks fake, and I hope there is a delete option. the tail light masks could be hiding some decent sweeping tail lights. the front may be boring, but that is what TechArt, Ruf, and Gemballa, and the like are for. You know that 911 Turbo-style nose valences are going to be made. As well as nice forged wheels.
The rear side door glass isn't as gaudy as the camo would make one think.
This isn't going to be a home run, but it could be a decent base-hit. and better than the cayenne "bunt" of an SUV.
Yeah, porsche performance, but honestly... an SUV??? Buy a Range Rover that is actually capable. Why buy a performance porsche that isn't actually a performance CAR? Fashion wins over rationality again.
At least the Panamera is a car, and there are worse cars than this would appear to be.
Aston Martin Rapide would appear to be head-shoulders and waist above, though, even just in terms of styling. Aston is the home-run hitter lately.
MattM @ Aug 28th 2007 2:42PM
Not Fair!!!!
I have a friend in Marina Del Ray, and this is like the one time I don't go see them and this prototype is driving around...
F**king Hell!!!
STC @ Aug 28th 2007 3:00PM
The side window graphic is from a Pontiac...And what's with the cartoonishly oversized tail-lamps?!
Vile!!
Porsche cars were never conventionally 'pretty' but this has to stop! It now seems official that my all-time favorite car company is dedicated to making ugly cars...
Shame!