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Other VW brands are set to use the four-seat platform

Volkswagen is considering using the Porsche Panamera platform to underpin other models in its group, according to reports from the US.

It is claimed that Porsche is willing to share the Panamera platform with other brands to recoup the large development costs involved, despite previously claiming it would not be sharing it.

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The reports didn’t say which other brand in the VW Group would get the four-seat, rear drive and all-wheel drive platform, although Audi, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Bentley and VW itself would all be candidates.

Hybrid and GTS versions of the Panamera are planned by Porsche within the next three years.

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every thing you... 21 March 2010

Re: VW to get Panamera platform

Rover P6 3500S wrote:
it would be great if the Lamborghini Estoque could be made on it... and the Bentley Conti

I think that's the most likely outcome, by all accounts it seems to be a capable machine. I'd expect to see an Audi A8 limo (or something similar) as well.

Hopefully this will allow Porsche to quietly retire the Panamera before too long...

gooners4ever 8 September 2009

Re: VW to get Panamera platform

coolboy wrote:

ahahah! now suddenlly the Panamera will be the beauty little child, loved by anyone, just because the mads prepare to clone it and add silicone too...

lovelly, poor unprotected Panamera...

why the Panamera, why? couldn`t be the utter old, ugly 911, that pointless?

???????????

betternotbigger 8 September 2009

Re: VW to get Panamera platform

Let VW use the platform for Bentley, Lamborghini or Audi and quietly do away with the Porsche 4 door. I was in the showroom the other day and the thing's a monster!! The 911 has never looked so pretty as it does juxtaposed with this behemoth...

As a 2 door GT on a shortened wheelbase (and with a slimmer waist if possible).... that might just prove a worthy Porker. I think we'd all like to see a 21st century 928 - well, I would.