Porsche Panamera test drive since 2009 hatchback

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It doesn’t matter how passion is expressed: in applying paint on canvas, gluing film or welding steel. If every smear, joint or seam lay between the torment of the search for truth and the enthusiasm of victories over the false this art. Engineers absorbed in technology as musicians with sounds are artists. Do not believe? Take a closer look at Panamera: Porsche proves again that engineering is art. This is happening today. Now. Here.
Once, at the next dinner on the occasion of the release of the next nine hundred and eleventh, one of my colleague asked the representative of Porsche: what are your work plans for the nearest premieres?- We have in Porsche, you see, a very conservative model range: the next one must presumably There will be GT3. You better try the meat very tasty!
There are all active shock absorbers and stabilizers, a variable clearance, ceramic brakes, all -wheel drive, turbocharged, KP with two clutches ...
Accompaning the answer, an eyebrow of the representative of the representative could have been dining himself, wise guy. Within the dress code, of course, not too noticeable for calling for a duel, but not so shy that not to show irony at all. Yes, Porsche makes sportsmen, and their number is nine one. Every peanut, which already has a three -wheeled bicycle, knows this. What questions can be? It was the nine hundred and the eleventh that turned the name Porsche, in fact, into the Porsche brand, known in the light, not only as a counterweight of a culmin. And all the time from the collapse of the Third Reich to the advent of Cayenne, this office of idealist engineers alternated confident victories in the races of sportsmen with victories on nails in the struggle for their own survival. Yes, they did not surf with his belly, despite all their uncompromising, even in the nineties, but permanent whistle of continuous labor exploits began to bother even them.
In order to save the 911st descendants and feed the families of those who put a hand in legend, a child of political marriage with Volkswagen, the world was revealed to the first Porsche, on which there is nothing to try to win le-man until they cut off Sart, To the damn grandmother, all asphalt. You probably know how it reflected on Porsche: they tasted such financial power that not every day smiles even to manufacturers of self -wound containers for canned food, what can we say about the manufactories in the harvesting of delicacies. But, as you know, not everyone overtakes satiety to someone and appetite comes: today we witnesses an event suspicious of a new breakthrough. Porsche launches a new lineup in a wider circle.
Panamera is broken into someone else's monastery with its charter. Of all the brands of the world, Porsche is the only one that can dare to do this, hoping not only to survive the warm welcome with a finger from two hands, but also to compete for victory. Of all the Porsche prime miners and from all the premiers of the whole world, Panamera's debut is as intriguing as possible. No one knew what she would be, but everyone was waiting for her.
You could not look at the photo. One could not know anything about Panamera, but it was impossible to make a mistake, for the first time facing a real live machine, this is Porsche. Real sports Porsche, only big. Panamera, named after the American race, as allegedly, as large as her name, which is given to this machine because it is ideal in terms of sound and an associative series in any language of any continent.
It is enough to open the door, and the feeling of thoroughness of work on the car will get stuck in the fingers with a tactile high with a family taste of the technogenic passion for perfection. It is she who forces to detain and feel every touch to Porsche. And in Panamera, combinations of the vast majority of details are so worked out. This is not the cold perfection of Audi, the inconsistent relief of the BMW aggression and not a gloss of history, similar to the Moleskine, which is sewn in new notebooks, characteristic of Mercedes. The door will freeze the motionless, no matter what position you leave it. And how the latch resisted the movement, and how he succumbed to your will will give the same pleasure as curiosity to the course of time if you have Rolex. A simple one: with a steel case and a white dial.
Panamera is low, as befits sports Porsche. But its base is enormous, and Porsche components never hacks: not only places, but also space in the rear sports seats with a margin. In front of the previous porsche, the elements are implanted into the original environment of the new Granturism. The central console resembles a gigantic Vertu, and the control keys for all functions of the chassis are pressed with no less chic. However, this is convenient to call this frequency of buttons, and it is difficult to find one, necessary from them during movement. This is not a surprise: the one who defines the ergonomics of trifles in Porsche does not work as well as all his colleagues. The same problems remained at the helm, familiar in the 911th, with the keys of manual selection of programs and location, and the algorithm of their work is unnatural, which is not inconvenient. And all about the shortcomings today there will be nothing more. Because they simply are not. And these little things are therefore noticeable that the common background is so clean.
 
He is clean too. By effort too. This is not an ideal set by the rear-wheel drive 911, but the steering wheel is cleaner than that of any car that can be ranked to formal competitors Panamera: 90% Porsche 911. And you want to feel a hundred percent porsche, touch the brake. Brakes are uncompromising without flaws. The PDK box, gas, atmospheric eight 400 forces, steering wheel, brake, chairs, all this together makes Panamera a born Porsche, which you will not confuse with anything pure embodiment of the pleasure of driving. The car is very complicated: with air suspension and the ability to change clearance, with active shock absorbers and active stabilizers, but it is controlled as whole and natural as a simple formula. It is incredible and incomprehensible. And this is good!
The car is large, but it is felt almost as lively and direct as Cayman, but you will not remember about two tons of weight. You can endlessly savor the slightest movements of the steering wheel, to revel, feeling the rear suspension slightly crawls Panamera on the arc, feel every sandstone on the work shoulder of the tire and play the nuances of its departure. And then forget, having fun, about all this rubbish and just roll along the road, relaxing and relying on the care of active cruise control and PSM stabilization systems: you can simply focus on a conversation with satellites and distract from the road. But whatever comfort on the rear seats, and no matter how the front passenger whips the front passenger Bose, which makes all past performances about a good car sound, the first couple of cadents on the thrombone and finishes with a dense wall with curtain tissues of a fat-living orchestra, Panamera anyway It remains a car for the driver. Porsche. And the difference with compartment 911 is that not only for one driver. The best big car for the driver and his passengers at the same time? Yes! The best of them, if you look for the most sports and driver's driver from these cars.
There are differences between versions. Panamera S The most driver for today, the initial version of Panamera. It is in it that the Purnschre's Purschre sports coupe is denser. The all -wheel drive machine 4s is all -green option, but more luxurious, powerful and not so direct in the management of Turbo closer to generally accepted ideas about fast -level machines. This is also a 100% Porsche Porsche, which is respected in any parking lot of any metropolis of any country.
Panamera plays its strong game on the field of large athletes of the German three. She competes with them, but does not replace them. Panamera does not isolate from the road and does not separate from life. Yes, she cannot slide over bumps like Jaguar R or Mercedes S. But she does not try. And this is its main difference from all potential competitors. Porsche Panamera is not a super -advanced vehicle with an admixture of car aroma. This is a super -reliable car capable of working as a ultra -suffering vehicle when necessary. It is necessary to his driver.
 
Design
In the design of the body, various varieties of steels, several types of light aluminum and magnesium alloys, as well as plastic were used. The engineers tried to focus the masses as close as possible to the middle of the car, thus improving the weight of the car and lowering its center of gravity. The hood, wings and doors are aluminum, the power of the cabin is formed by elements from ultra -resistant steels. In the basic configuration, Panamera is equipped with eight airbags. There are two options for the engines: a modified V-shaped eight familiar in Cayenne, with a boost and without. 500 and 400 l. p., respectively for versions of Panamera Turbo, as well as S and 4S.
Both engines are equipped with direct injection systems and changes in the phases and height of the valve lift. A seven -speed gearbox with two clutches Standard transmission for Panamera Turbo and 4S, the S. option for S. The Full Apartment system works on the same principle as on the Porsche sportkup: a constant drive to the rear axle and a multi -disc clowing on the front. The two -leash suspension in the front and the multi -link behind are equipped with all the attributes of the active chassis available to the company: the new clearence change system, active PASM shock absorbers and active PDCs transverse stability stabilizers. Brakes with composite ceramic discs are traditionally available. They are more effective, durable and weigh less traditional steel.

 
 
 
 

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