DYNAMIC FOUR DOOR SPORT

THE Porce Panamera is a four door ,four-seat luxury sedan,which was unveiled to the public at the 2009 Shanghai Auto Show.One of the highlights of the Panamera's debut was fitting the car in the freight elevator of the Shanghai World Financial Centre and sending to the skyscraper's 94th floor.
Channel4,in its latest car review,describes Panamera as the most dynamic four -door car currently in the market.Autoblog says in its online review of the car,"Unlike the BMW M5,Audi S6,and Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG-all competent family sedans guissied-up to masquerade as sport sedans-the porsche Panamera is built with the sole objective of being the only clean-sheet high performance sport sedan in the segment.Even the Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG,arguably one of the Panamera's closest competitors,pales in performance."For people who enjoy ample space in a car,Panamera may not be appeal to them as its size limits agility.It is not as spacious as it could be.
Acces is easy despite the very low seating position,and the ambience is lounge-like with comfortable seats and high quanlity materials leather,suedey roof lining,aluminium and wood trim.The scalloped roof lining also means-at six feet two inches -there is a solid inch of headroom when practising the best posture,and a whole lot more at a slounch.The top-of-the -range Turbo is the easiest to understand:shatteringly fast,it also has superb poise on rough roads and faultless stability.
Eslewhere,things are less straightforward as the mid-range 4S can feel slower than its 400bhp would suggest,with the complex transmission sometimes struggling to decide what next.The two-wheel-drive S manual-which still has massive amounts of grip-may be found preferable to the 4S in many ways.The picture might even get more cloudier when the range is extended to incorporate a V6 engine in 2010 and a hybrid power plant 2011.
Overall,the Porshce has the strenght you will expect from the marque;high standards of it build quality,supreme road-holding abilities,performance in spades and great poise.Porsche buyers,who want the space of cayenne,but not the height,will love it.Its a highly impressive car.The ride is Mercedes S-class smooth in the softest in three of suspension settings;the seven-speed dual -clutch PDK gearbox manages to be both silky smooth at car park speed and engagingly direct-with no loss of refinement-as faster speeds;and the V8 is a perch.For the most part you'll barely hear the engine,but accelerate hard and dramatic V8 hammering seeps into the cabin as the power builds with a lovely,creamy linearity to the 6500rpm redline.
The Panamera is said to pamper its occupants with yards of leather,fine wood(or carbon fibre),aluminium trim,and high quality plastics.A long,button-laden centre console runs the length of the cabin,effectively keeping passengers divided as optional multi-zone temperature controls (up to four) adjust each occupant's microclimate.
Overhead,another console controls cabin lighting and the sunroof.While intimidating at first glance,the sea of buttons are logically placed into quadrants of climate control,suspension setting,vehicle setting,and other emergency (hazard lights door locks etc).After some familiarisation,their individual operations are readily absorbed. Active aerodynamics is standard equipment on all variants of the Panamera,but they alter slightly based on trim level.Recalling the test driving experience of the car in a report by Autoblog two about a month ago,Micheal Harley says,"In its softest setting,and at low speed,Panamera drives like most other large German luxury sedans.Unlike a 911,it feels heavy and substantial around town-especailly pulling away from a standstill when the laws of physics have to be coaxed to release the two-ton Porsche.