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Not bad at all. The more I look at it, the more I get accustomed to it
This is one ugly car. Those with means will go with the Rapide.
I really don't like the back. It's a king of hatch back sedan like the Franchs like it... I really don't like. But the interior must be nice. Waiting for more picture.
Not sure what to think. It looks a little forced, as if they said here is a 911 put four doors on it! Lamborghini and Aston Martin seems to luck out because the are not bound by Porche's hatch back.That is the worst part of the side profile, if Porche wasnt forced to retain the hatch it wont looked so awkward
Really bad. Shows a total lack of imagination. The more I look at it, the less I like it. Add to the ugly list alongside the Cayenne. Porsche keeps dropping on my desirability list.
It's just fine from the front bumper to the C-pillar, but then... wow, baby got back. Will be interesting to see some talented Photoshoppers come up with an "alternate ending."
nice front, back and 3/4; profile is fugly. noo better than the Chrysler Sebring
Some pretty intelligent comments so far, considering the amount of bashing that goes on around here. I'll agree with some previous posters, Porsche somehow feels obligated to use their traditional hatch-back from the coupes on their new sports sedan, and it feels VERY contrived, awkward, unnatural. I mean, I know the car is very important, and performance-wise, this thing will probably stand up on its own, but Porsche could've done something revolutionary instead of something evolutionary. They could've begun with a new design approach, they could've taken the fast-back sedan profile used by the CLS. But maybe as Porsche, it just wouldn't have been the same. Maybe for the designers at Porsche, there was not compromising. They needed the hatch-back, they wanted this hatch-back. People will definitely stop and stare, but at least they had the balls to make this their final design.
I like it, if it gets to 2nd gen which I hope it does, you can bet they'll improve on the overall look of the car. I want one badly, it has no competitor really. the x6 is to fat, the lambo will never be made, ferrari - stick to what you know don't dare. Mercedes.......... has the cls which is accomplished and luxurious.....hmmm...... lets hope that Stuttgart's latest weapon can be all things to men.. just don't look at it for too long in pics, I bet it's quite imposing in the flesh.
It will be special when it's on road, even though the back is....hummmm...... The front is aggressive. Hope there is a turbo version. Tt probably get a chance to take over AMG and M-power!
I saw 2 driving around Las Vegas in July and they look way better on the road than they look in photos. They are a lot lower than you might think. They sounded impressive as well.
absolutely lovely!!! it's true the more you look at it the more you like it,
I doubt very many of the haters posting comments here actually have the "inclination" to really buy one. As a VERY happy owner of a Cayenne Turbo, I may think about it when the S lease comes due. I think it has a unique, non-traditional stance that I would consider. A step ahead of the curve in my opinion and serviceable at a network of dealers FAR more accessible than Aston Martin. Frankly I welcome it to the luxo-sedan fray!
The rear has proportion issues. Sorry Porsche, but 4 door's doesn't just mean extending the design with room for another door. It's like they took a Maserati and cut the rear end off. Now it looks like a fucking wagon not a sweet sedan like it should be.
Ten or so years ago, there have been prototype 4-door sedans derived from the Porsche 911, and even from the old Beetle, which looked perfectly proportioned. There is a way of making a good-looking hatch-back sedan, this isn't it. If your Aston dealer is too inaccessible, get a Quattroporte instead. And if you really need something very fast AND very nimble, just get an Audi A8.
no.
Both Bugatti and Aston Martin had 4door concepts in the nineties that looked better than this (in fact you CAN buy a Bugatti EB112). Lambo's 4door is at least cool if not beautiful.
I remember myself drawing 4door 911 just for fun cause I felt there should be one!, but Panamera is not a good design
About the same size and shape of the Nissan GT-R isn't it?
Hummmmm. :-)
I love it when the Europeans copy the Japanese. And I was talking about this design three years ago, with the batteries offsetting the engine mass in the front and giving you better weight distribution and mass centralization. I envision an electric motor in the rear, with a fully integrated all-wheel-drive hybrid system, while locating the batteries under the floor in a line as close to the center of the vehicle as possible, to fully optimized this affect.
"Anonymous // November 22, 2008
I doubt very many of the haters posting comments here actually have the "inclination" to really buy one. As a VERY happy owner of a Cayenne Turbo, I may think about it when the S lease comes due. I think it has a unique, non-traditional stance that I would consider. A step ahead of the curve in my opinion and serviceable at a network of dealers FAR more accessible than Aston Martin. Frankly I welcome it to the luxo-sedan fray!"
Truth to be told, this is an abysmally styled Porsche, surpassing even the horrid looks of the Cayenne. It will probably drive well and pull like a train, but with looks of a stretched hatchback with an overwrought, lumpen ass, it would take a brave customer to buy one. Let's see how this pans out, if there's any aesthetic sense left in the world, it will not sell and Porsche will be forced to create a new facelift. But, discounting the possibility that it will sell as well as the Cayenne by virtue of its Porsche badge, I still wouldn't want to be seen in something like this that lacks any grace for the price you pay for it.
Looks very like the new Renault Megane from the rear three quarters back.. Front looks quite successful but that vent behind the front wheel arch looks terrible.
AAAAAAHHHGGGGGGG!!!!! ugly. Porsche's nightmare
"Truth to be told, this is an abysmally styled Porsche, surpassing even the horrid looks of the Cayenne. It will probably drive well and pull like a train, but with looks of a stretched hatchback with an overwrought, lumpen ass, it would take a brave customer to buy one. Let's see how this pans out, if there's any aesthetic sense left in the world, it will not sell and Porsche will be forced to create a new facelift. But, discounting the possibility that it will sell as well as the Cayenne by virtue of its Porsche badge, I still wouldn't want to be seen in something like this that lacks any grace for the price you pay for it."
Yes, I am one of those "brave customers" that thoroughly enjoys my Cayenne Turbo and is self-confident enough not to be burdened with the “horrible stigma” of the Cayenne. I have found a lot of self-proclaimed Porsche pundits that chat me up at the fuel pump and grumble about its very existence, haven’t even driven the vehicle. Seems like history repeating itself again with this car. Beauty has always been in the eyes of the beholder but in the case of the Cayenne, and I’m sure with this car, it is merely an excuse to bash something new. How Porsche can ever be mistaken as “design innovators” is a mystery to me. The 911 has been derivative, sorry, refining itself since the sixties. I will wait to first see it in the steel and then drive one to make my own determination of its capabilities BEFORE I develop such a black or white opinion. I do love my S Class but change CAN be a good thing.
Open your minds a bit people and make some attempt get over yourselves.
"Yes, I am one of those "brave customers" that thoroughly enjoys my Cayenne Turbo and is self-confident enough not to be burdened with the “horrible stigma” of the Cayenne. I have found a lot of self-proclaimed Porsche pundits that chat me up at the fuel pump and grumble about its very existence, haven’t even driven the vehicle. Seems like history repeating itself again with this car. Beauty has always been in the eyes of the beholder but in the case of the Cayenne, and I’m sure with this car, it is merely an excuse to bash something new. How Porsche can ever be mistaken as “design innovators” is a mystery to me. The 911 has been derivative, sorry, refining itself since the sixties. I will wait to first see it in the steel and then drive one to make my own determination of its capabilities BEFORE I develop such a black or white opinion. I do love my S Class but change CAN be a good thing.
Open your minds a bit people and make some attempt get over yourselves."
No one doubts at all the capabilities of the Cayenne or certainly this Panamera. As for styling, since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, this new Porsche certainly isn't at all beautiful to my beholding eyes. Since you remain supremely confident of your Porsche Cayenne, please confidently purchase the Panamera if you will. Just don't take offence if many do not like its looks, because beauty's in the eye of the beholder.
At last the lazy porsche designers have used their heads.Most of their cars look the same .Except the cayenne which managed to look distinctive a bit. This new one is nice but it is still having resemblance with other models a little.
Porsche is too scared to go too far from their decades old 911 design.
This poor sedan looks like a stretched limo version of the 911.
If Porsche were to make a school bus, I bet they would give it the face and back of the 911 with a regular bus body in the middle.
Not my cup of tea. Too many faaaar better looking cars in this category.
yeah i agree with doug anyone with means will go with the am rapide
Having owned 2 Porches and driven a Cayenne on several occasions, you should never go by looks. I would like to hear from anyone who has had a decent drive of a Cayenne who thinks that it is still a bad vehicle - its a drivers car like all Porsches. Even the Hairy bikers said that having now driven a Porsche - they get it!
Sue
should be marked on "2005 Porsche Panemera..."
looks old...
great car ! enjoyed
Ooops! At first glance it looks... ah, well not quite pretty. Hm, it seems Porsche can't get it right when it comes to models that don't fit the 356/911/Cayman-mold. Shame.
just to throw another spanner into the works as this is clearly a hotly contested debate....
Euro NCAP regulations nowadays take a perfectly good looking car and make it ped friendly and voila you have the modern car - ugly but does the job. If you want a sleekly designed looking machine you gotta pick from the 60s, 70s, 80s when safety were not considered or deemed important enough to affect the aesthetics.
in short change is never pretty.
you try being a car designer if you're so talented.
"Euro NCAP regulations nowadays take a perfectly good looking car and make it ped friendly and voila you have the modern car - ugly but does the job. If you want a sleekly designed looking machine you gotta pick from the 60s, 70s, 80s when safety were not considered or deemed important enough to affect the aesthetics."
What a load of rubbish, you just have to look at the Quattroporte, Rapide, Lambo 4-door. Wait they likely have/will do well in the Euro NCAP but are still beautiful, while the same cannot be said of this Porsche. And Euro NCAP regulations usually affect the front of the car, thats why you see disproportionately long front ends of cars like the Peugeot 407, but for this Porsche the front looks alright, it is the lumpy arse that's ugly. If you wanna find ways to justify the looks of this car, try harder, Euro NCAP isn't the issue for this one.
Definitely not everyone's cup of tea. That's why I love this car.
If Porsche had intended to pull away from convention and from pleasing crowd stereotypes, they certainly have done it.
I have never owned a Porsche before, but I want this one!