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SEVILLE, Spain—Once upon a time there was a Porsche that made two-door sports cars. Then came the century XXI. La people become fickle and demand things like practicality and convenience, as well as clever handling and forged engineering. Porsche, preferring to stay in business, identified this shift in the market and has been beefing up its lineup since 2003, first with SUVs and then in 2009 with the Panamera sedan.
This sedan is now in its third generation and at the end of last year we visited its Leipzig factory to see the prototype. Today the new Panamera went into production and we spent a day driving two models on the road and on the road. track before the car arrived in the U. S. This summer.
In terms of appearance, the third-generation Panamera looks a lot like the previous style in that it has the exact same external measurements: 198. 8 inches (5052 mm) long, 76. 3 inches (1937 mm) wide, and 56 inches (1423 mm). height. However, it will be presented as a five-door hatchback – we’re told that the Sport Turismo variant no longer exists.
The design looks a little sharper than the older car, with more pronounced fenders above the idler and LED matrix headlights with a steep angle. At the rear, the retractable rear spoiler is a matter of split portions protruding and then getting bigger above a certain speed threshold. Attentive eyes will also see more air ducts at the front to better cool the engine bay.
The Panamera was the first Porsche to tinker with a hybrid powertrain, ignoring, of course, the 1899 Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus. In 2016, Porsche incorporated a plug-in hybrid powertrain into the Panamera for the first time, eventually offering a total of four other PHEV powertrains for the fourth-generation car. However, it will only offer one at launch: the Panamera Turbo E-Hybrid. You’ll know you’re looking for a Panamera Turbo thanks to the exclusive “Turbonite”. badge and color details, and pedants will be satisfied to know that this car is indeed supplied with forced induction.
In fact, the 4. 0L V8 uses a pair of turbochargers, now monoscroll, instead of the old car’s twin-scroll turbines. This allows the car to heat the catalytic converter faster and operate at higher exhaust fuel temperatures. any deactivation of the cylinders; instead, Porsche engineers used variable valve lift and opening to cope with the other engine loads.
There’s an all-new 188 hp (140 kW) 332 lb-ft (450 Nm) electric motor for the PHEV powertrain, which now sits inside the eight-speed dual-clutch PDK transmission (which drives all four wheels) that downstream. . of it. Total power and torque are 670 hp (500 kW) and 685 lb-ft (935 Nm).
The electric motor is still coupled to the transmission, and only when the car needs to add a little internal combustion force, does a decoupler close and activate the V8 as well. When braking, the electric motor can regenerate up to 88 kW sooner. Friction brakes take over. The most noticeable speed is 140 km/h (87 mph) with electric propulsion alone, or 305 km/h (190 mph) with the V8 also contributing to it.
There’s also a new high-voltage traction battery to pass along with the new electric motor. Porsche has increased the capacity to 25. 9 kWh, resulting in a significant increase in the distance that can be covered by electric power alone. Porsche has not. The EPA’s official knowledge on fuel power has not yet been released, so we can’t be specific, however, the European WLTP diversity in electric-only mode is between 76 and 91 km, depending on the driving mode, which represents an improvement of around 75% over the past. Charging times (from 0 to 100%) are as low as 2 hours and 39 minutes via the built-in 11 kW AC charger.
The other two powertrains to be launched will be the rear-wheel drive Panamera and the all-wheel-drive Panamera 4. Both use a 2. 9-liter twin-turbo V6 fuel engine, which makes 349 hp (260 kW) and 368 lb-ft (500 kW). Nm), 10% more in both stats than the outgoing Panamera V6. Together with a new eight-speed PDK transmission, it reduces the time from 0 to 60 km/h by one or two tenths of a second (between 4. 8 and 5 seconds depending on whether you take the Sport Chrono package) and reaches the top speed up to 270 km/h for the Panamera and 272 km/h for the Panamera 4.
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