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It does not matter how passion is expressed: in applying paints on canvas, gluing a film or welding of steel. If every smear, butt or seam lay between the flour of the search for truth and delight victories over false is art. Engineers absorbed in the technique as musicians sounds, artists. Do not believe? Look at Panamera: Porsche again proves that engineering is art. This is happening today. Now. Here.
Somehow for the next dinner on the occasion of the release of the next modification of the next nine hundred and eleventh one colleague asked the representative of Porsche: What are your work plans for the next premieres? - We have in Porsche, you see, a very conservative model range: next, you need to believe, There will be GT3. You better than meat try very tasty!
There are all active shock absorbers and stabilizers, changeable clearance, ceramic brakes, four-wheel drive, turbocharging, KP with two clutches ...
Accompanying the answer, the eyebrow of the representative would have raised himself, and himself, Melnik himself. Within the dress code, of course not too much noticeable to call a duel, but not so shy, so as not to show the irony at all. Yes, Porsche makes sports cars, and their number nine one one. It knows every karapuz, who already has a three-wheeled bike. What could be the questions? It is nine hundred that the eleventh turned the name Porsche, in fact, in the brand Porsche, famous in the world not only as a counterweight Kulman. And all the time from the crash of the Third Reich and before the appearance of Cayenne, this office of idealist engineers alternated confident victories in sports races with victories on the nails in the fight for their own survival. Yes, they did not pop up up with a belly, despite all their uncompromising, even in nineties, but permanent whistle continuous labor feats began to bother even them.
To save the 911st descendants and feed families of those who put a hand to the legend, a chance of political marriage with Volkswagen to the world was revealed by Cayenne The first Porsche, on which there is nothing to think to try to win Le Mans until the rings are not cut down, To the damn grandmother, the whole asphalt. About how it affected Porsche, you probably know: there they were given such a financial force, which, not every day, smiles even by manufacturers of self-polling containers for canned food, what to say about manufacturing on the workpiece of delicacies. But, as you know, not all during food overtakes satiety to someone comes and appetite: today we are witnesses events suspicious to a new breakthrough. Porsche launches a new range in a wider circle.
Panamera is wanted in someone else's monastery with his charter. Of all the brands of the world, Porsche is the only one that can dare to such, calculating not only to survive a warm welcome from two hands, but also compete for victory. Of all the premier Porsche and from all the prime minister of the whole world, Panamera's debut is the most intriguing. No one knew what she would be, but everyone was waiting for her.
It was possible not to look at the photo. It was possible to know anything about Panamera, but it was impossible to be mistaken, the first time being in front of a real living machine, it is Porsche. Real sports Porsche, great only. Panamera, called so allegedly in honor of the American race, is as big as her name, which is given to this car because it is ideal for both sounding, and on an associative row in any language of any continent.
It is enough to open the door, and the feeling of carefulness of the car will get stuck in the fingers tactile buzz with the family taste of man-made passion to perfection. It is she forces to delay and feel each touch to Porsche. And in Panamera so worked in the combination of the overwhelming majority of parts. This is not a cold perfection of Audi, the BMW aggression is not frightened and not a history gloss similar to the stitched in new Moleskine notepads characteristic of Mercedes. The door is deputy stationary, in whatever position you left it. And how resisted the retainer movement, and the way he succumbed to your will will deliver the same pleasure as curiosity to the course of time if you have Rolex. Simple such: with a steel housing and a white dial.
Panamera is low, as it should be a sports Porsche. But her base is huge, and Porsche's linkers have never been halted: not only places, but also space in the rear sports seats with a margin. In front of the familiar elements are fitted in the original medium of the new granturism. The central console resembles the Giant Vertu, and the control keys of all functions of the chassis are pressed with no less than a chic. However, it is not possible to name this frequency of the buttons to be convenient, and it is difficult to find one, which is difficult during the movement. This is not a surprise: the one who defines in the Porsche ergonomics of the little things works not as good as all his colleagues. The same problems remained at the helm, acquainted in the 911st, with the manual gear selection keys and the location, and the algorithm of their work are unnatural, because and uncomfortable. And everything, about the disadvantages today there will be nothing more. Because they are simply not. And these little things they are because they are noticeable that the general background is so clean.
 
The steering wheel is also clean. In effort too. This is not an ideal given by the rear-wheel drive 911s, but the steering wheel is cleaner than any car that can be found to formally competitors Panamera: 90% Porsche 911. And you want to feel a hundred percent Porsche TRIDE the brake. Brakes are uncompromising without flaws. PDK, gas, atmospheric eight 400 forces, steering wheel, brake, chair All this makes Panamera in anticipated Porsche, who does not confuse with anything's pure embodiment of driving pleasure. The car is very difficult: with a pneumatic suspension and ability to change clearance, with active shock absorbers and active stabilizers, but it is managed so solid and naturally as a simple formula. It is incredibly and incomprehensible. And this is good!
The car is large, but it feels almost the same alive and immediate as Cayman, but about two tons of weight and do not remember. You can easily relent the slightest driving movements, get enough, feeling how the rear suspension slightly drills Panamera on the arc, feel every sand onto the tire's hand and playing her nuances. And then to forget, having gotting around, about all this rubbing and just rolling on the road, relaxing and relying on the care of active cruise control and PSM stabilization system: you can simply focus on a conversation with satellites and distract from the road. But whatever the comfort on the rear seats, and no matter how the imagination of the front passenger is Bose, which makes all past ideas about the good car service of the first border of cadents on Trombone and finish the fatty wall of the fatty fabrics of the life orchestra, Panamera is still It remains a car for the driver. Porsche car. And the difference with the compartment 911 is that not only for one driver. The best large car for the driver and its passengers at the same time? Yes! The best of them, if you look for the very sporty and driver of these cars.
There are differences between versions. Panamera S is the driver for today, the initial version of Panamera. It is in it that the Puritan spirit of sports coupe Porschre lives the densest. All-wheel drive Machine 4S is an all-weather option, and more luxurious, powerful and not so direct in Turbo control closer to conventional ideas about fast top-level machines. This is also 100% Porsche Porsche, which causes respect for any parking lot of any megapolis of any country.
Panamera plays his strong game on the field of large sporty German troika. 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 irregularities as 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 superior vehicle with an admixture of car fragrance. This is a superstreated car capable of working and a super-fast vehicle when necessary. It is necessary to his driver.
 
Design
In the construction of the body, we found a variety of varieties of steels, several types of aluminum and magnesium alloys, as well as plastics. Engineers tried to focus the masses as close as possible to the middle of the car, thus improving the car tooling and lowering his center of gravity. The hood, the wings and doors are aluminum, the power cell of the cabin is formed by elements from ultra-fortress steels. In the basic configuration Panamera is equipped with eight airbags. Motor variants are still two: a finalized V-shaped eight, familiar with Cayenne, with a superpower and without. 500 and 400 liters. p., respectively, for versions of Panamera Turbo, as well as s and 4s.
Both engines are equipped with direct injection systems and phase change and lifting height. Seven-step gearbox with two clutches Standard transmission for Panamera Turbo and 4S, option for S. The full drive system works on the same principle as on the Porsche sports machine: a constant drive to the rear axle and the plug-in multidisk coupling on the front. The front-end suspension in front and multi-dimensions are equipped with all attributes of the active chassis available at the disposal of the company: a new clearance change system, active PASM shock absorbers and active PDCC transverse stability stabilizers. Traditionally accessible and brakes with composite ceramic discs. They are more effective, durable and weigh less traditional steel.

 
 
 
 

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