In case you weren’t aware, Porsche does things a little differently than other automakers.  It’s one of two companies that uses flat-6 motors, which it puts in the ass-end of its 911, now available with an electrically operated targa top.  After decades of selling sports cars, it decided to start selling an off-road-capable SUV and […] More »

It doesn’t matter if you love it or hate it.  The Porsche Panamera sedan is here to stay – at least for another generation. The next generation will come bearing gifts to sway all the haters out there: fresh V6 and V8 engines and aluminum/steel underpinnings. “Porsche will have its own new V8 that will […] More »

Cars are like songs.  Like music, they make terrific, pleasing melodies.  Occasionally, they can seem ground-breaking and fresh when, in reality, they sample or draw inspiration from something that was truly original decades ago. As revolutionary as Porsche’s Panamera sedan was for the sports car brand back in the 2010 model year, it wasn’t the […] More »

Back in the day, Porsches were the only cars Jerry Seinfeld collected. That’s not a bad thing, especially for a guy who owns the first 911 and the last 993 ever made. In the car community, Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche addiction is about as well-known as Jay Leno’s overall car addiction, but what other celebs in […] More »

There was a time—many moons ago—when a four-door Porsche just didn’t exist.  The face-flatteningly fast Panamera certainly changed that.  (Ahem… So did the once-blasphemous Cayenne SUV.)  Long before that car, the 928 was a completely foreign concept to the Teutonic firm.  Its front-mounted eight-cylinder power plant was a radical departure from the rear-engined 911’s flat-six. […] More »

Just as Matt Farah did recently, /DRIVE’s Mike Musto got behind the wheel of an (until a few years ago) unusual Porsche – the four-door Panamera GTS.  Whereas Farah knocked the Cayenne Diesel for its poor value and preferred two of its competitors, Musto was perfectly content with the Stuttgart company’s humpback human hauler.  As […] More »

After reading the title above, you may think to yourself, “No, they ruined it by designing it to be hideous.” Yes, the Panamera (if I may use an old Clarkson reference) looks like a Chihuahua taking a crap. For crying out loud, a Porsche 911 crossbred with a Citroën DS looks better than the Panamera. […] More »