**The Panamera: A Review**

As I step inside the Porsche Panamera, I'm immediately struck by its sporty seat design. The seats are equipped with small wings above the shoulders and have a turbo embossing on the top, giving them a premium feel. The front panel can also be adjusted, allowing for optimal comfort and support.

The interior is where the Panamera truly shines. The fan speed can be controlled to suit your needs, providing a comfortable driving experience. Additionally, there's haptic feedback for your seat heating, window buttons, suspension mode, and traction control. While some of the options may not be illuminated, they're still accessible and functional.

One area where I feel the Panamera falls short is in storage space. The additional buttons and options that aren't lit are simply not present or are hidden from view. I prefer cars with a more minimalist approach to design, such as carbon fiber trim and storage pouches rather than traditional armrests.

However, once you start exploring the interior, you'll find plenty of space for passengers and cargo. The glovebox is decent-sized and has ample room for storing essentials. Additionally, there are cup holders and USB ports throughout the cabin, making long drives more convenient.

The rear seats offer a similar driving experience to the front, with adjustable seats and plenty of legroom. The storage bucket in the back provides additional space for passengers, as well as access to a digital screen that offers a range of features and controls.

One feature that I particularly enjoy is the carbon tray behind the seats. It opens and closes easily, providing a convenient spot for storing small items. There's also a through-load system for skis or other equipment, making it perfect for outdoor enthusiasts.

While some design elements, such as the pouches that aren't straight-edged, may not be ideal, overall I'm impressed with the Panamera's interior design and functionality.

**The Exterior: A Closer Look**

Now that we've taken a closer look at the interior, let's take a tour of the exterior. As I step out into the rain, I notice the active air flaps on the front end. These flaps are designed to provide cooling for the engine when it's stationary, and they're particularly useful in low-temperature conditions.

As we drive around, you'll notice the quad-style LED lights on the front grille, which add a touch of sophistication to the design. The overall shape of the car is sleek and sporty, with a lower profile that makes it perfect for navigating tight city streets or taking on winding roads.

Throughout the exterior, you can see Porsche's attention to detail and commitment to quality. From the premium materials used in the construction of the car to the precise engineering that goes into every aspect of its design, it's clear that this is a vehicle built for enthusiasts who demand the best.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'm thoroughly impressed with the Panamera. Its sporty design, premium interior, and exceptional performance make it an ideal choice for anyone looking for a luxurious driving experience. While there are some minor quibbles with the storage space and design elements, these don't detract from the overall package.

Whether you're cruising through the city or taking on long highway drives, the Panamera is sure to impress. Its powerful engine and advanced technology make it an ideal choice for drivers who value comfort, performance, and style. I'd love to get behind the wheel of the e-Hybrid model to experience 680 horsepower firsthand, but even the regular Panamera is a treat to drive.

As we wrap up our tour of the Panamera, I want to thank Porsche for the opportunity to test drive this exceptional vehicle. With its blend of style, performance, and practicality, it's clear that this car will be a hit with enthusiasts around the world.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys i'm smee hello and welcome back to the channel where you join me today to go for a test drive in this car right here the porsche panamera turbo sport turismo now we're just outside stuttgart in germany and i collected the car earlier from the factory in zuffenhausen but i'm pretty sure that porsche saw me coming a mile away because if you've been following my channel recently you will know that not too long ago i sold a blue estate like sports car so i think this is a gentle nudge and subtle hint from porsche that this could be a potential replacement and i'm not gonna lie the sport turismo version of the panamera is definitely something of interest to me and today we're gonna take a walk around talk all about the car this being the turbo means that it has a whopping 550 horsepower and then we'll take it for a test drive on the roads around here to see what it's like so let's get started taking a look at the panamera sports turismo first thing i'd actually like to talk about is the paint color of this car so prior to my 911 gt3 arriving my previous porsche was a cayman gt4 and guess what the color was yup you've named it sapphire blue the exact same shade as this panamera so very much a gentle nudge and wink i think from porsche but let's talk about the panamera in general then we'll get onto the sports turismo i'm sure you're familiar with the car a four-door luxurious coupe like saloon it's now in its second generation and last year i took a new panamera s diesel on a road trip and got to discover what it was about some of the technology on the interior and also drive it on a bit of snow which was very fun but this is based on the turbo which means a 550 horsepower 770 newton meter four liter biturbo v8 we're going to be discovering that later on and i'm looking forward to driving it so the sport turismo has been introduced on the same line and i have to say it is a good looking car i mean the second generation panamera is a significantly better looking car than the first in my eyes to start from and this when you add that estate-like proportion to the rear really gives it something else i think there's just something really cool about a very fast estate car and this is the ultimate the panamera sits almost as a competitor to the audi a8 the bmw 7 series the mercedes s-class and there's nothing else of that category that really lines up with this and i mean talking about the design and styling obviously the rear is raised to give it this hatch you have a new style spoiler sitting at the top of the rear window but it flows very very neatly and believe it or not there is only a 30 kilo weight penalty and that comes from the fact that the car as standard would have a three seat bench in the rear instead of two separate seats so that is literally it otherwise it's the same wheel space the same platform the same engine options around the rear actually just to talk about the design i am a big fan of these 3d textured rear lights especially the way they flow across the rear via the porsche badge above the panamera turbo logo there in the center and distinct in this engine format by the quad exhaust the twin on each side that you have down at the bottom no doubt you've noticed the wheels given that we're in germany and it's winter it's a legal requirement to be running the car on winter tires so these are our winter tire and wheel combination rather than the standard 20-inch turbo style wheels that the car would come on which would obviously improve the looks slightly but you can see that it's sitting quite low quite aggressive as we come around towards the front just to look here and aerodynamics becoming a big part of every car these days and especially actually when we come around right down towards the front you have the quad style lights of porsche's dynamic headlight system coming in here lots of open areas for cooling through towards the engine and even right here some active flaps that you can see that will open to allow cooling through but close to prevent additional drag when it's not required so i think it's a good looking car they took the original generation they made it look even better on the outside but let's come and have a quick glimpse at the interior of this car as well and in here we've been over it in some significant detail before now but just to look around you've got carbon fiber trim if we step inside i'm going to start the car up it's a keyless system so the key being in my pocket porsche now have this toggle to the left hand side to start instead the v8 burbles into life you have the familiar five displays sitting there and you have this brilliant large high resolution infotainment system in the center one thing from previous experience i wasn't necessarily the biggest fan of is the touch system for all of your other controls because you can find yourself fumbling around it takes some familiarity to learn where each of the different toggles or buttons and switches are for say the windows or heated seats or adjusting your suspension the car has an adaptive suspension system of course it has the different driving modes via sport sport plus an individual to customize your different driving modes but other than that it's completely loaded with safety security technology systems we have things like the gigantic panoramic roof well the two halves the front half and the rear half that are independently controlled this car has the dual seat configuration in the rear but even back there there is a touch interface for controlling various aspects of the infotainment it's just a very very nice place to be and that's before actually i'll leave it running just to warm the car up slightly because it is really rather chilly come round to the back that's before we've even taken a look inside the boot of course powered tailgate where we have plenty of space you have the folding rear seats the 40 20 uh 40 split for the rear seats but plenty of luggage there is the turbo s e hybrid version which basically takes this engine and setup but adds to it a hybrid system with batteries to take power up to 680 horsepower 130 horsepower more so there's a bit more weight and you lose a little bit of the luggage space which in here is obviously pretty decent but you'd have 680 horsepower that's a lot that's an awful lot so the car is all-wheel drive perfect for winter conditions perfect as a car to basically use for all purposes so let's close this back down and head back and jump in um i'll just quickly open the rear actually to show you in here a little bit we'll come back and have a better look later on towards the end it's a very very nice place the black leather in here of course complementing i think the nature and going well with having a brighter exterior color but let's take it out for a drive and see what this thing is like on the roads the thing with the panamera right is that it's such a usable almost everyday car but the theory is that it very much has the driving dynamics of a porsche sports car and from experience it was incredible how even the s diesel with the v6 engine rather than this with the v8 still had so much torque that it went really really well and drove in an incredibly good way and this car obviously has adaptive suspension so you can put it through different modes from comfort to however sporty you'd like it and as you get moving it's just gentle and effortless so at this end of the spectrum it's a car that's very easy to drive i particularly liked the windscreen wipers i know that was a very random thing but all of these porsche engineered details the everyday aspects of the car are finished incredibly well and you have similarities with the 911 that come from this five style of five displays obviously it's one central display with two digital panels on either side the sport chrono clock that's in the center you have great infotainment and sound systems the sound system in the panamera is fantastic and the wipers just went and they're virtually silent and they work really well so nice little touch on that as well let's hope it doesn't get too wet on me so driving like this you've got an eight-speed pdk gearbox it shifts literally the definition of seamlessly it is completely discreet and there's no intrusion of it at all if you put it into one of the sportier modes or into manual on the box or if you turn the drive selector you can of course use the paddles on the back but for cruising along it's comfortable and very very nice obviously it is factory built so it's not necessarily the same hand i guess finish as you would have with say the italian equivalent the ferrari gtc4 lucille although that is a substantially more expensive car it must be said and at the other end i suppose just beneath this is the audi rs6 performance but based on a slightly smaller platform but in terms of fast wagons faster stake cars the e-hybrid one of these is basically the ultimate that you could have at the moment it's an incredibly capable car a very well-equipped car and i mean driving along as i said quite gently right now just to experience the car in in regular environments it's without a hitch it's quiet it rides i mean we're on smooth roads so perhaps that's a little bit unfair to compare it with but it rides very very well you're not feeling intrusion and we're on smaller wheels that must be said obviously the standard summer wheel spec i suppose would be the larger um 20-inch turbo wheels like i mentioned this car is opted with ceramic brakes you can have various different um obviously driving dynamics configurations and options the turbo se hybrid comes incredibly highly equipped from standard this has one or two things that you'd include as options but just to drive steering already feels sporty and exciting is going over the bumps here yeah you feel them but they're not particularly bad now we get to countryside road so we can turn it up into sport mode the gearbox will drop a gear you have a bit of v8 you can hear in the background it flicks when you watch the rev counter as it flicks between gears it's incredible because it's so fast it's don't donk whichever way it's going up in sport plus mode where things get even crazier and it's just starting to rain so we won't go silly although all-wheel drive four-wheel drive you know no harm nothing no issues um it's not very loud unless you get it up towards uh the red line which is in the high six thousands but just drop drop down a gear or two slow down bit of sound out of it now if i accelerate we just move we just move and it pulls at you obviously i mean it's a fairly heavy car i think it's 2035 kilos dry weight but the speed with which it will get going with this all-wheel drive setup i mean nothing is faster off the line really than a turbo s the 911 turbo s has everything just completely configured to go mac 10 full pace off the line so porsche borrowing some of that in this car to make this a pretty fast equivalent for this category i mean it is quite an exclusive category there aren't lots of them but what would be interesting to me is to see how many people would order the sport turismo versus the normal panamera i think that would be very telling of the market for this car now they they introduced it basically as a what else can we do with the panamera could they make a two-door coupe could they make a convertible or could they make a shooting brake style estate car and they went for the latter which is what we're driving right now noise is good just gently up through the uh through the revs let some v8 come through so you can customize your uh individual settings depending how you want it of course and then even let's say when you're in sport plus you can actually soften the suspension down with this touch panel in the middle as i said earlier you have to look at what you're pressing you can put esc into a variety of different modes so one click will give you a sporty feel or you can press and hold and it will go off and there we go psm sport you'd have to press and hold it all the way to turn it off there we go put it back on for the moment um different settings on that front steering wheel quite a small uh wheel which i quite like you get a lot of sporty feel that comes out of just holding a small steering wheel it feels like a sports car because of that and it doesn't feel like a car that is as big as this car is i mean we're talking five plus meters here we're talking very very wide but it doesn't give you a huge fear of size and scale it feels like quite a i guess reasonable thing to drive now for me i would like a little bit more flair from it i would like it a little bit more dramatic in terms of design um perhaps even more aero if if that can be said if that would make any sense at all on a vehicle like this um perhaps even more noise on that front and i i think something that gets lost slightly is from cars and you can see why a matter of fact all manufacturers do it is that when you have such similarity between the models whether it's a mccann a kn a panamera a cayman a boxster or a 911 everything is very samey and sometimes it's nice to have a little bit of differentiation it makes sense for development costs for parts for uh all the work that has to go into it but actually this is interesting as we arrive in a little town here i should put it back into normal peaceful mode just to you know chill and see what that side of things does um obviously it has stuff like stop start the engine comes to a stop before you come to a stop i noticed there as we were rolling in towards a standstill the dashboard displays while we're stopped and i can have a decent look at them have a very high resolution and quality and clarity to them which is a nice touch i like the trim with the carbon fiber that's surrounded by um chrome pieces around the car matching with the central console and the steering wheel and those different aspects um and generally speaking it's all very accurate efficient sensible well-engineered well thought out and made in a correct and decent way and we're actually driving at the moment towards vice versa being the home of course of porsche's gt division and their sportiest and most capable cars where they're developed so it's quite fun there are lots of nice roads around here to enjoy so let's see if we can find somewhere where we can push the thing a little bit harder here we go then the countryside back into sport plus the most dynamic setting as a very nice yellow turbo s goes the other way and a panamera a regular model goes the other way we're in the land the heartland of porsches so here we go let's put our foot down and experience a little bit of this i've got it still in automatic it's not going to shift manually but i find these gearboxes these days are very well configured and engineered they know what you want to do before you know what you want to do really and truly if you want to get maximum performance and let's say you're driving on a race track you really don't want to be wasting time anymore just let the car do its thing obviously if you want to have engagement and enjoyment then do by all means and buy a manual because that's the proper way to do it like you can have in the new gt3 he says given that i've just ordered my gt3 with a pdk but that goes down to the other cars in my garage anyway nice twisty road here to get to feel that there's not all that much body roll the car with the suspension in the firmest settings holds really quite well i mean obviously you do feel a bit of the weight going around the corner naturally but this was very much a focus on driving dynamics and making the car drive very well and perform as it should and you you feel a bit of that and obviously i'm not booting it like crazy we're on public roads here rather than a racetrack but in this kind of environment it does more than enough really i'm not sure what beyond this you could possibly want out of a car other than let's say a screaming v12 in the italian corner but that will cost you a little bit more than double the price to get there obviously you can opt one of these very very high you can go to porsche exclusive and add no end of options onto the top of it should you wish but turning down a road like this it's not imposing i mean i'm probably talking really rather quickly while driving for my first time down twisty road in the car and really quite enjoying it which is what it's all about i think if i pop the gear stick to the left we're going to go into manual no more automatic up shifts but we can enjoy a little bit more of the rev range and push on and my goodness even the braking power is obviously pretty clean and efficient as well ceramics not really helping in actual stopping power over regular brakes but giving you much more longevity especially on the racetrack more time in effect until they start to get too hot but here concentrating a little bit more as i put my foot down goodness me just gets a move on it moves that weight so dramatically fast and this is not even the quickest version of this car it's 130 horsepower down on the quickest version of this car that's ludicrous on its own even if it was like 30 horsepower down you'd be like the one up is the one to have but 130 horsepower more i couldn't tell you the exact price is off my heart the price difference but no doubt it's quite a marked step to introduce that e hybrid technology and actually more than half of the panameras in total are e-hybrids being made so um of the regular car there's the e-hybrid as well as well as the turbo version up to the turbo sc hybrid at the very very top and obviously that is technology that was introduced and demonstrated in a big way in what introduced before but demonstrated in a big way in the 918 spider and it's very much i think an interesting way to use tech in the future because porsche are doing it for driving benefit for driving enjoyment as much as it is for emissions and regulations so it's a lot about introducing extra enjoyment extra power extra grip extra ability to pull out early in a corner as much as it is also the side where it's more economical and it's more environmentally friendly and that side of things too but we're back in town let's uh swing it off into well not off into normal mode come to a stop oh it oh yes it did it did stop um it does take a moment to start back up so what i noticed that a traffic light is going to put my foot back on the throttle the time delay there is a slight delay it's not like as soon as you lift off the brake into some cars they'll fire up so that by the time you're back on the throttle your foot is already there well there's ever so slight lag in that which means you need to be quite honest with spotting the lights changing but given we're in normal mode we should probably go back into the automatic um side of things uh coasting even though i didn't actually come to a complete stop it did switch off i guess we've got all that side of the tech as well cylinder the activation style things um and everything that basically makes it a very nice cruiser anyway i've rambled on for an awful long time i've had a really fun drive actually so far but let me see if i can find somewhere to pull over and just swing you a little bit more through some of the inside stuff and give some more thoughts about the car it looks like it's about to get an awful lot wetter here but while i'm sat inside the car let's take a look around and press some more buttons and see what you interact with while you're sat here and what it looks like and what it feels like so number one of course the steering wheel i've talked a little bit about the drive mode selector the toggle that is located within easy reach on the right hand side but you also have your other media controls and the like and the ability to scroll through different displays on the left side you go through your trip modes i noticed the speed limiter is set to 241 kilometers an hour that is also to do with it being on winter tires which are limited to 240. on the right hand side you can scroll through the right hand display so again more information or bring up the full screen navigation system which is nice as well uh starting note view assist generating image so that is your literally night vision very nice we all like that awesome cool back to the trip information you have the clock over to the right hand side that's quite nice and it shows us the suspension setting mode as well down there so i like the lighting the white uh leds with the red highlights and accents that you see around all looks very very nice the speed limit signal at the left hand side as well um the toggle for starting and stopping the car your light controls um i presume about memory seats and then the lock and unlock controls confuse me for a second there shouldn't have done um here you can open and close the boot windows mirrors usual bits and pieces the door handle pulls nice carbon fiber panamera turbo door sills your seats that you can move in a bazillion different directions you can move the front section forwards and backwards so you can do your lumbar you can do everything down there this car has the bose hi-fi system as well installed over to the right-hand side obviously usual stalks for bits and bobs and then down here let's talk about the navigation and climate side of things so climate control we'll bring this up which is nice you can turn off the center vent which will as you saw close up that vent which is quite fun you can reposition where it's pointing this car is gadget overload as well by the way i mean you just move this and then you can watch it reposition depending what you've asked it to do oh that is fun to do the the silly things hey that keep us entertained airflow at the top and you can adjust this in so many different ways as you can see you have a lot of control over climate control it's not a simple little uh part of the system in car if you press there you've got the option to um you know raise and lower the height of the car adjust the spoiler which in the regular car has that sideways opening spoiler which is a nice little touch and feature as well your different driving modes come through all of this and literally you can change and configure so much it's just impossible for me to remotely begin to show you everything but although there's a tiny bit of lag to the system it is very bright and gives you you know a nice look to it which i think is important it could be a touch faster i'm not gonna lie um connected so we've got access to lots of information data services and all of the like so go back um yeah i don't even know what would be considered the home there's home there we go we've got different tiles and the ability to quick uh hot step into different modes so again haptic well not haptic but for the temperature and things you press up and down on these toggles um for the fan speed then you've got the haptic feedback for your seat heating uh your window buttons your suspension mode and your traction control now i've mentioned before one thing i don't necessarily like is that you can just about make out that the additional buttons the options that you don't have so to speak um are just not even present which well they're there but not illuminated and i i feel like i would rather not see them i kind of preferred cars in the days of blanking plates carbon fiber well could be ashtray but um a little storage pouch uh two cup holders which have things in there that actually rise up there we go and then it becomes a flat armrest or you just put them back down unusual but does the job armrest not the biggest storage in the armrest to be honest and some little compartments but you could definitely in theory have more space up there and usb um auxiliary cable and the 12 volt socket at the back passenger side nice carbon fiber fascia decent-sized glovebox lots of space in there that's good and then just to show you the seat design sporty seat design that we've got here with these small wings up above the shoulders turbo embossing on the top um of that as well and then it's the the front panel down here that can adjust in addition to the rest so with the car still running i'm going to hop out and jump into the rear i'll show you some of the entertainment that we have available to us back there and this weather is very grim right at this moment but stepping back in here see the space obviously the driver's seat is in my driving position and there's ample space i'm just short of six foot five eleven or so um so more than enough room in there just i think about one meter 80 for those of you in metric so back here we've got a similar seat set up in this car we've got the two plus two configuration like the regular panamera so you've got a seat that feels very much like the front seat in the back which is nice um down in here you've got a storage bucket which has your cup holders and additional usb ports which is nice as well um obviously you have access to the digital screen here which similarly to the front is very high resolution um access to to control your heating and a number of bits and pieces that you can have in there and control through this so we can go to options media and you can bring up different features and this is all rather replicated off the front it's very similar style and feel which is nice close back up that carbon tray i quite like the way that opens and closes in sink um behind us we have the little armrest we can lower down with a decent size storage bucket inside there actually um but you can lower this whole middle section he says there's this lever at the top to lower that down and then you have a through load system for your skis or whatever you might want to put through here underneath the rear shelf that you could also remove should you wish so that side of things actually works really quite well easily and efficiently not the biggest fan of these um pouches that aren't straight edged because as soon as you try and put something paper inside them it obviously gets curved around and goes very wrong so that's not my number one thing back there but let us jump quickly out again to have a last little look wrap up the exterior of the car before i get totally drenched and one thing while it's running actually i'm going to head towards the front because i want to show you those active air flaps obviously when the car is parked stationary the engine needs cooling but it's not getting that much air from movement and those flaps i showed you at the beginning are open which is quite nice to be able to see how that whole front end basically the whole lower end is used for cooling around the front see the lights on with their quad style squared leds overall though a very enjoyable car one that i like an awful lot i'd love to drive the e-hybrid to go see what 680 horsepower is like in the car but in terms of german efficiency you couldn't really ask for more it's going to be reliable it all works how you expect you're probably not going to see bits of trim falling off that kind of thing which in a car with this much power makes it immensely capable to use for everything but also to take out for an enjoyable drive so definitely an interesting car watch this space uh maybe get a drive in one of those in the ehybrid at some point in the future but for now a big thanks to porsche i've thoroughly enjoyed this i hope you guys have enjoyed looking at the car and seeing a lot more about it anyway that's it for now thank you very much and i'll catch up with you again very soon cheers youhi guys i'm smee hello and welcome back to the channel where you join me today to go for a test drive in this car right here the porsche panamera turbo sport turismo now we're just outside stuttgart in germany and i collected the car earlier from the factory in zuffenhausen but i'm pretty sure that porsche saw me coming a mile away because if you've been following my channel recently you will know that not too long ago i sold a blue estate like sports car so i think this is a gentle nudge and subtle hint from porsche that this could be a potential replacement and i'm not gonna lie the sport turismo version of the panamera is definitely something of interest to me and today we're gonna take a walk around talk all about the car this being the turbo means that it has a whopping 550 horsepower and then we'll take it for a test drive on the roads around here to see what it's like so let's get started taking a look at the panamera sports turismo first thing i'd actually like to talk about is the paint color of this car so prior to my 911 gt3 arriving my previous porsche was a cayman gt4 and guess what the color was yup you've named it sapphire blue the exact same shade as this panamera so very much a gentle nudge and wink i think from porsche but let's talk about the panamera in general then we'll get onto the sports turismo i'm sure you're familiar with the car a four-door luxurious coupe like saloon it's now in its second generation and last year i took a new panamera s diesel on a road trip and got to discover what it was about some of the technology on the interior and also drive it on a bit of snow which was very fun but this is based on the turbo which means a 550 horsepower 770 newton meter four liter biturbo v8 we're going to be discovering that later on and i'm looking forward to driving it so the sport turismo has been introduced on the same line and i have to say it is a good looking car i mean the second generation panamera is a significantly better looking car than the first in my eyes to start from and this when you add that estate-like proportion to the rear really gives it something else i think there's just something really cool about a very fast estate car and this is the ultimate the panamera sits almost as a competitor to the audi a8 the bmw 7 series the mercedes s-class and there's nothing else of that category that really lines up with this and i mean talking about the design and styling obviously the rear is raised to give it this hatch you have a new style spoiler sitting at the top of the rear window but it flows very very neatly and believe it or not there is only a 30 kilo weight penalty and that comes from the fact that the car as standard would have a three seat bench in the rear instead of two separate seats so that is literally it otherwise it's the same wheel space the same platform the same engine options around the rear actually just to talk about the design i am a big fan of these 3d textured rear lights especially the way they flow across the rear via the porsche badge above the panamera turbo logo there in the center and distinct in this engine format by the quad exhaust the twin on each side that you have down at the bottom no doubt you've noticed the wheels given that we're in germany and it's winter it's a legal requirement to be running the car on winter tires so these are our winter tire and wheel combination rather than the standard 20-inch turbo style wheels that the car would come on which would obviously improve the looks slightly but you can see that it's sitting quite low quite aggressive as we come around towards the front just to look here and aerodynamics becoming a big part of every car these days and especially actually when we come around right down towards the front you have the quad style lights of porsche's dynamic headlight system coming in here lots of open areas for cooling through towards the engine and even right here some active flaps that you can see that will open to allow cooling through but close to prevent additional drag when it's not required so i think it's a good looking car they took the original generation they made it look even better on the outside but let's come and have a quick glimpse at the interior of this car as well and in here we've been over it in some significant detail before now but just to look around you've got carbon fiber trim if we step inside i'm going to start the car up it's a keyless system so the key being in my pocket porsche now have this toggle to the left hand side to start instead the v8 burbles into life you have the familiar five displays sitting there and you have this brilliant large high resolution infotainment system in the center one thing from previous experience i wasn't necessarily the biggest fan of is the touch system for all of your other controls because you can find yourself fumbling around it takes some familiarity to learn where each of the different toggles or buttons and switches are for say the windows or heated seats or adjusting your suspension the car has an adaptive suspension system of course it has the different driving modes via sport sport plus an individual to customize your different driving modes but other than that it's completely loaded with safety security technology systems we have things like the gigantic panoramic roof well the two halves the front half and the rear half that are independently controlled this car has the dual seat configuration in the rear but even back there there is a touch interface for controlling various aspects of the infotainment it's just a very very nice place to be and that's before actually i'll leave it running just to warm the car up slightly because it is really rather chilly come round to the back that's before we've even taken a look inside the boot of course powered tailgate where we have plenty of space you have the folding rear seats the 40 20 uh 40 split for the rear seats but plenty of luggage there is the turbo s e hybrid version which basically takes this engine and setup but adds to it a hybrid system with batteries to take power up to 680 horsepower 130 horsepower more so there's a bit more weight and you lose a little bit of the luggage space which in here is obviously pretty decent but you'd have 680 horsepower that's a lot that's an awful lot so the car is all-wheel drive perfect for winter conditions perfect as a car to basically use for all purposes so let's close this back down and head back and jump in um i'll just quickly open the rear actually to show you in here a little bit we'll come back and have a better look later on towards the end it's a very very nice place the black leather in here of course complementing i think the nature and going well with having a brighter exterior color but let's take it out for a drive and see what this thing is like on the roads the thing with the panamera right is that it's such a usable almost everyday car but the theory is that it very much has the driving dynamics of a porsche sports car and from experience it was incredible how even the s diesel with the v6 engine rather than this with the v8 still had so much torque that it went really really well and drove in an incredibly good way and this car obviously has adaptive suspension so you can put it through different modes from comfort to however sporty you'd like it and as you get moving it's just gentle and effortless so at this end of the spectrum it's a car that's very easy to drive i particularly liked the windscreen wipers i know that was a very random thing but all of these porsche engineered details the everyday aspects of the car are finished incredibly well and you have similarities with the 911 that come from this five style of five displays obviously it's one central display with two digital panels on either side the sport chrono clock that's in the center you have great infotainment and sound systems the sound system in the panamera is fantastic and the wipers just went and they're virtually silent and they work really well so nice little touch on that as well let's hope it doesn't get too wet on me so driving like this you've got an eight-speed pdk gearbox it shifts literally the definition of seamlessly it is completely discreet and there's no intrusion of it at all if you put it into one of the sportier modes or into manual on the box or if you turn the drive selector you can of course use the paddles on the back but for cruising along it's comfortable and very very nice obviously it is factory built so it's not necessarily the same hand i guess finish as you would have with say the italian equivalent the ferrari gtc4 lucille although that is a substantially more expensive car it must be said and at the other end i suppose just beneath this is the audi rs6 performance but based on a slightly smaller platform but in terms of fast wagons faster stake cars the e-hybrid one of these is basically the ultimate that you could have at the moment it's an incredibly capable car a very well-equipped car and i mean driving along as i said quite gently right now just to experience the car in in regular environments it's without a hitch it's quiet it rides i mean we're on smooth roads so perhaps that's a little bit unfair to compare it with but it rides very very well you're not feeling intrusion and we're on smaller wheels that must be said obviously the standard summer wheel spec i suppose would be the larger um 20-inch turbo wheels like i mentioned this car is opted with ceramic brakes you can have various different um obviously driving dynamics configurations and options the turbo se hybrid comes incredibly highly equipped from standard this has one or two things that you'd include as options but just to drive steering already feels sporty and exciting is going over the bumps here yeah you feel them but they're not particularly bad now we get to countryside road so we can turn it up into sport mode the gearbox will drop a gear you have a bit of v8 you can hear in the background it flicks when you watch the rev counter as it flicks between gears it's incredible because it's so fast it's don't donk whichever way it's going up in sport plus mode where things get even crazier and it's just starting to rain so we won't go silly although all-wheel drive four-wheel drive you know no harm nothing no issues um it's not very loud unless you get it up towards uh the red line which is in the high six thousands but just drop drop down a gear or two slow down bit of sound out of it now if i accelerate we just move we just move and it pulls at you obviously i mean it's a fairly heavy car i think it's 2035 kilos dry weight but the speed with which it will get going with this all-wheel drive setup i mean nothing is faster off the line really than a turbo s the 911 turbo s has everything just completely configured to go mac 10 full pace off the line so porsche borrowing some of that in this car to make this a pretty fast equivalent for this category i mean it is quite an exclusive category there aren't lots of them but what would be interesting to me is to see how many people would order the sport turismo versus the normal panamera i think that would be very telling of the market for this car now they they introduced it basically as a what else can we do with the panamera could they make a two-door coupe could they make a convertible or could they make a shooting brake style estate car and they went for the latter which is what we're driving right now noise is good just gently up through the uh through the revs let some v8 come through so you can customize your uh individual settings depending how you want it of course and then even let's say when you're in sport plus you can actually soften the suspension down with this touch panel in the middle as i said earlier you have to look at what you're pressing you can put esc into a variety of different modes so one click will give you a sporty feel or you can press and hold and it will go off and there we go psm sport you'd have to press and hold it all the way to turn it off there we go put it back on for the moment um different settings on that front steering wheel quite a small uh wheel which i quite like you get a lot of sporty feel that comes out of just holding a small steering wheel it feels like a sports car because of that and it doesn't feel like a car that is as big as this car is i mean we're talking five plus meters here we're talking very very wide but it doesn't give you a huge fear of size and scale it feels like quite a i guess reasonable thing to drive now for me i would like a little bit more flair from it i would like it a little bit more dramatic in terms of design um perhaps even more aero if if that can be said if that would make any sense at all on a vehicle like this um perhaps even more noise on that front and i i think something that gets lost slightly is from cars and you can see why a matter of fact all manufacturers do it is that when you have such similarity between the models whether it's a mccann a kn a panamera a cayman a boxster or a 911 everything is very samey and sometimes it's nice to have a little bit of differentiation it makes sense for development costs for parts for uh all the work that has to go into it but actually this is interesting as we arrive in a little town here i should put it back into normal peaceful mode just to you know chill and see what that side of things does um obviously it has stuff like stop start the engine comes to a stop before you come to a stop i noticed there as we were rolling in towards a standstill the dashboard displays while we're stopped and i can have a decent look at them have a very high resolution and quality and clarity to them which is a nice touch i like the trim with the carbon fiber that's surrounded by um chrome pieces around the car matching with the central console and the steering wheel and those different aspects um and generally speaking it's all very accurate efficient sensible well-engineered well thought out and made in a correct and decent way and we're actually driving at the moment towards vice versa being the home of course of porsche's gt division and their sportiest and most capable cars where they're developed so it's quite fun there are lots of nice roads around here to enjoy so let's see if we can find somewhere where we can push the thing a little bit harder here we go then the countryside back into sport plus the most dynamic setting as a very nice yellow turbo s goes the other way and a panamera a regular model goes the other way we're in the land the heartland of porsches so here we go let's put our foot down and experience a little bit of this i've got it still in automatic it's not going to shift manually but i find these gearboxes these days are very well configured and engineered they know what you want to do before you know what you want to do really and truly if you want to get maximum performance and let's say you're driving on a race track you really don't want to be wasting time anymore just let the car do its thing obviously if you want to have engagement and enjoyment then do by all means and buy a manual because that's the proper way to do it like you can have in the new gt3 he says given that i've just ordered my gt3 with a pdk but that goes down to the other cars in my garage anyway nice twisty road here to get to feel that there's not all that much body roll the car with the suspension in the firmest settings holds really quite well i mean obviously you do feel a bit of the weight going around the corner naturally but this was very much a focus on driving dynamics and making the car drive very well and perform as it should and you you feel a bit of that and obviously i'm not booting it like crazy we're on public roads here rather than a racetrack but in this kind of environment it does more than enough really i'm not sure what beyond this you could possibly want out of a car other than let's say a screaming v12 in the italian corner but that will cost you a little bit more than double the price to get there obviously you can opt one of these very very high you can go to porsche exclusive and add no end of options onto the top of it should you wish but turning down a road like this it's not imposing i mean i'm probably talking really rather quickly while driving for my first time down twisty road in the car and really quite enjoying it which is what it's all about i think if i pop the gear stick to the left we're going to go into manual no more automatic up shifts but we can enjoy a little bit more of the rev range and push on and my goodness even the braking power is obviously pretty clean and efficient as well ceramics not really helping in actual stopping power over regular brakes but giving you much more longevity especially on the racetrack more time in effect until they start to get too hot but here concentrating a little bit more as i put my foot down goodness me just gets a move on it moves that weight so dramatically fast and this is not even the quickest version of this car it's 130 horsepower down on the quickest version of this car that's ludicrous on its own even if it was like 30 horsepower down you'd be like the one up is the one to have but 130 horsepower more i couldn't tell you the exact price is off my heart the price difference but no doubt it's quite a marked step to introduce that e hybrid technology and actually more than half of the panameras in total are e-hybrids being made so um of the regular car there's the e-hybrid as well as well as the turbo version up to the turbo sc hybrid at the very very top and obviously that is technology that was introduced and demonstrated in a big way in what introduced before but demonstrated in a big way in the 918 spider and it's very much i think an interesting way to use tech in the future because porsche are doing it for driving benefit for driving enjoyment as much as it is for emissions and regulations so it's a lot about introducing extra enjoyment extra power extra grip extra ability to pull out early in a corner as much as it is also the side where it's more economical and it's more environmentally friendly and that side of things too but we're back in town let's uh swing it off into well not off into normal mode come to a stop oh it oh yes it did it did stop um it does take a moment to start back up so what i noticed that a traffic light is going to put my foot back on the throttle the time delay there is a slight delay it's not like as soon as you lift off the brake into some cars they'll fire up so that by the time you're back on the throttle your foot is already there well there's ever so slight lag in that which means you need to be quite honest with spotting the lights changing but given we're in normal mode we should probably go back into the automatic um side of things uh coasting even though i didn't actually come to a complete stop it did switch off i guess we've got all that side of the tech as well cylinder the activation style things um and everything that basically makes it a very nice cruiser anyway i've rambled on for an awful long time i've had a really fun drive actually so far but let me see if i can find somewhere to pull over and just swing you a little bit more through some of the inside stuff and give some more thoughts about the car it looks like it's about to get an awful lot wetter here but while i'm sat inside the car let's take a look around and press some more buttons and see what you interact with while you're sat here and what it looks like and what it feels like so number one of course the steering wheel i've talked a little bit about the drive mode selector the toggle that is located within easy reach on the right hand side but you also have your other media controls and the like and the ability to scroll through different displays on the left side you go through your trip modes i noticed the speed limiter is set to 241 kilometers an hour that is also to do with it being on winter tires which are limited to 240. on the right hand side you can scroll through the right hand display so again more information or bring up the full screen navigation system which is nice as well uh starting note view assist generating image so that is your literally night vision very nice we all like that awesome cool back to the trip information you have the clock over to the right hand side that's quite nice and it shows us the suspension setting mode as well down there so i like the lighting the white uh leds with the red highlights and accents that you see around all looks very very nice the speed limit signal at the left hand side as well um the toggle for starting and stopping the car your light controls um i presume about memory seats and then the lock and unlock controls confuse me for a second there shouldn't have done um here you can open and close the boot windows mirrors usual bits and pieces the door handle pulls nice carbon fiber panamera turbo door sills your seats that you can move in a bazillion different directions you can move the front section forwards and backwards so you can do your lumbar you can do everything down there this car has the bose hi-fi system as well installed over to the right-hand side obviously usual stalks for bits and bobs and then down here let's talk about the navigation and climate side of things so climate control we'll bring this up which is nice you can turn off the center vent which will as you saw close up that vent which is quite fun you can reposition where it's pointing this car is gadget overload as well by the way i mean you just move this and then you can watch it reposition depending what you've asked it to do oh that is fun to do the the silly things hey that keep us entertained airflow at the top and you can adjust this in so many different ways as you can see you have a lot of control over climate control it's not a simple little uh part of the system in car if you press there you've got the option to um you know raise and lower the height of the car adjust the spoiler which in the regular car has that sideways opening spoiler which is a nice little touch and feature as well your different driving modes come through all of this and literally you can change and configure so much it's just impossible for me to remotely begin to show you everything but although there's a tiny bit of lag to the system it is very bright and gives you you know a nice look to it which i think is important it could be a touch faster i'm not gonna lie um connected so we've got access to lots of information data services and all of the like so go back um yeah i don't even know what would be considered the home there's home there we go we've got different tiles and the ability to quick uh hot step into different modes so again haptic well not haptic but for the temperature and things you press up and down on these toggles um for the fan speed then you've got the haptic feedback for your seat heating uh your window buttons your suspension mode and your traction control now i've mentioned before one thing i don't necessarily like is that you can just about make out that the additional buttons the options that you don't have so to speak um are just not even present which well they're there but not illuminated and i i feel like i would rather not see them i kind of preferred cars in the days of blanking plates carbon fiber well could be ashtray but um a little storage pouch uh two cup holders which have things in there that actually rise up there we go and then it becomes a flat armrest or you just put them back down unusual but does the job armrest not the biggest storage in the armrest to be honest and some little compartments but you could definitely in theory have more space up there and usb um auxiliary cable and the 12 volt socket at the back passenger side nice carbon fiber fascia decent-sized glovebox lots of space in there that's good and then just to show you the seat design sporty seat design that we've got here with these small wings up above the shoulders turbo embossing on the top um of that as well and then it's the the front panel down here that can adjust in addition to the rest so with the car still running i'm going to hop out and jump into the rear i'll show you some of the entertainment that we have available to us back there and this weather is very grim right at this moment but stepping back in here see the space obviously the driver's seat is in my driving position and there's ample space i'm just short of six foot five eleven or so um so more than enough room in there just i think about one meter 80 for those of you in metric so back here we've got a similar seat set up in this car we've got the two plus two configuration like the regular panamera so you've got a seat that feels very much like the front seat in the back which is nice um down in here you've got a storage bucket which has your cup holders and additional usb ports which is nice as well um obviously you have access to the digital screen here which similarly to the front is very high resolution um access to to control your heating and a number of bits and pieces that you can have in there and control through this so we can go to options media and you can bring up different features and this is all rather replicated off the front it's very similar style and feel which is nice close back up that carbon tray i quite like the way that opens and closes in sink um behind us we have the little armrest we can lower down with a decent size storage bucket inside there actually um but you can lower this whole middle section he says there's this lever at the top to lower that down and then you have a through load system for your skis or whatever you might want to put through here underneath the rear shelf that you could also remove should you wish so that side of things actually works really quite well easily and efficiently not the biggest fan of these um pouches that aren't straight edged because as soon as you try and put something paper inside them it obviously gets curved around and goes very wrong so that's not my number one thing back there but let us jump quickly out again to have a last little look wrap up the exterior of the car before i get totally drenched and one thing while it's running actually i'm going to head towards the front because i want to show you those active air flaps obviously when the car is parked stationary the engine needs cooling but it's not getting that much air from movement and those flaps i showed you at the beginning are open which is quite nice to be able to see how that whole front end basically the whole lower end is used for cooling around the front see the lights on with their quad style squared leds overall though a very enjoyable car one that i like an awful lot i'd love to drive the e-hybrid to go see what 680 horsepower is like in the car but in terms of german efficiency you couldn't really ask for more it's going to be reliable it all works how you expect you're probably not going to see bits of trim falling off that kind of thing which in a car with this much power makes it immensely capable to use for everything but also to take out for an enjoyable drive so definitely an interesting car watch this space uh maybe get a drive in one of those in the ehybrid at some point in the future but for now a big thanks to porsche i've thoroughly enjoyed this i hope you guys have enjoyed looking at the car and seeing a lot more about it anyway that's it for now thank you very much and i'll catch up with you again very soon cheers you\n"