What is it?
The Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Sport Turismo, to give this sleek four-door estate its full title, is the all-inclusive adventure holiday of the Porsche range.
It’s difficult to conceive, from the specs at least, how it could possibly achieve, or its driver request, anything more. It’s as fast as all but the looniest Porsche 911s, pretty much as practical as the SUVs and just as luxurious as any other Porsche Panamera.
The Turbo S E-Hybrid packs more of everything than has been seen in a Porsche before, and as such boasts some frightening numbers: 671bhp is just 20bhp short of the new GT2 RS, its 627lb ft crushes that mental 911 and 94mpg is unheard of in something this fast with a combustion engine. Oh, yes, and there’s the small matter of the £140,000 starting price for the car you see here, though that’s a point to return to...
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Don’t know why i like this
Don’t know why i like this but i do....
The sooner these hybrid cars
The sooner these hybrid cars fuel economy is measured under real world conditions the better.
But amazing achievement none the less
So most interesting for me was 3 chamber air suspensension, is this the new gold standard for ride handling?