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AUTOS: Porsche Reveals Panamera Wagon
Sport Turismo plug-in hybrid concept hints at the automaker’s plans to expand the Panamera lineup, with images shown before its Paris Auto Show debut.
Porsche's Sport Turismo concept demonstrates the automaker's desire to expand the Panamera offerings. (Illustration: Porsche)
Porsche’s unveiling of the Panamera Sport Turismo concept at the Paris motor show has provided the clearest hint yet of its long-held plans to expand the Panamera lineup to include a sporting wagon.
The concept also showcases for the first time a plug-in version of Porsche's gasoline-electric hybrid system.
The car is one of at least three new Panamera-based models that have been under consideration at Porsche since the sedan was launched in 2009. Key visual changes over the existing Panamera include an extended roofline, a longer glasshouse and an angled tailgate that opens at bumper height.
Porsche boss Mathias Muller confirmed that the new style-led wagon will form part of the second-generation Panamera lineup, with the concept unveiling coinciding with that of the rival Mercedes-Benz CLS shooting brake at the Paris show. The new Panamera's platform will be shared with future Bentley models as part of closer engineering ties between the two Volkswagen Group companies.
"The body concept of the Panamera Sport Turismo is an outlook on a possible Porsche sports car of tomorrow," said Muller, who did not provide any official time line for the introduction of the production version, though sources close to Porsche say the new wagon will debut in 2016.
The decision to push ahead with plans for a Panamera wagon has been driven by customer feedback, Porsche said. "We have existing Panamera owners who seek greater practicality but don't necessarily see the Cayenne as a solution."
Among the details developed by Porsche design boss Michael Mauer and his team of in-house designers for the new car are newly shaped headlamps with distinctive double-deck LED graphics, a more heavily contoured hood, greater structuring to the flanks with a reinterpreted version of the brake cooling graphic incorporated behind the front wheel arches, a more prominent lip to the rear wheel arches to accentuate the stance and thinner LED taillamps that, in a nod to classic 911 models, are connected by a reflector strip.
In a move that indicates Porsche is looking to adopt new rear-view technology on its next generation of cars, the Panamera Sport Turismo does without conventional exterior mirrors. Their job is taken care of by two cameras mounted within the side air outlets, with images shown on a display in the cabin.
At 194.9 inches long, 78.3 inches wide and 55.2 inches tall, the Porsche concept car is 0.8 inch shorter, 2.4 inches wider and 0.7 inch lower than the soon-to-be-facelifted Panamera liftback.
As well as previewing its plans for a wagon, the concept car showcases a powerful new plug-in hybrid drive system that Porsche intends to offer with the second-generation Panamera and facelifted second-generation Cayenne in the middle of the decade as part of its Intelligent Performance initiative.
The concept also showcases for the first time a plug-in version of Porsche's gasoline-electric hybrid system.
The car is one of at least three new Panamera-based models that have been under consideration at Porsche since the sedan was launched in 2009. Key visual changes over the existing Panamera include an extended roofline, a longer glasshouse and an angled tailgate that opens at bumper height.
Porsche boss Mathias Muller confirmed that the new style-led wagon will form part of the second-generation Panamera lineup, with the concept unveiling coinciding with that of the rival Mercedes-Benz CLS shooting brake at the Paris show. The new Panamera's platform will be shared with future Bentley models as part of closer engineering ties between the two Volkswagen Group companies.
"The body concept of the Panamera Sport Turismo is an outlook on a possible Porsche sports car of tomorrow," said Muller, who did not provide any official time line for the introduction of the production version, though sources close to Porsche say the new wagon will debut in 2016.
The decision to push ahead with plans for a Panamera wagon has been driven by customer feedback, Porsche said. "We have existing Panamera owners who seek greater practicality but don't necessarily see the Cayenne as a solution."
Among the details developed by Porsche design boss Michael Mauer and his team of in-house designers for the new car are newly shaped headlamps with distinctive double-deck LED graphics, a more heavily contoured hood, greater structuring to the flanks with a reinterpreted version of the brake cooling graphic incorporated behind the front wheel arches, a more prominent lip to the rear wheel arches to accentuate the stance and thinner LED taillamps that, in a nod to classic 911 models, are connected by a reflector strip.
In a move that indicates Porsche is looking to adopt new rear-view technology on its next generation of cars, the Panamera Sport Turismo does without conventional exterior mirrors. Their job is taken care of by two cameras mounted within the side air outlets, with images shown on a display in the cabin.
At 194.9 inches long, 78.3 inches wide and 55.2 inches tall, the Porsche concept car is 0.8 inch shorter, 2.4 inches wider and 0.7 inch lower than the soon-to-be-facelifted Panamera liftback.
As well as previewing its plans for a wagon, the concept car showcases a powerful new plug-in hybrid drive system that Porsche intends to offer with the second-generation Panamera and facelifted second-generation Cayenne in the middle of the decade as part of its Intelligent Performance initiative.
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