I recently drove the new Porsche Panamera turbo for a day while my 911 was in for service. I do not think its a pretty car, but better looking in person than in photos..., long,wide and low. The Panamera reminds me a lot from a driving perspective like my old 928 gts except a lot quicker. This car just killed a Maserati Quatroporte in a comparison test from a performance perspective, yet the magazine picked the Maserati...said the Porsche was to perfect. Can a car be to perfect and is it a real Porsche?

it is a real porsche,
even if it had a diesel engine,

perfect driving machines,
lacking a bit of soul unless they are labeled GT or S of CS or RS or...

I'ld have one pleaze!!!!
for me it is - as a daily - the n°2 porsche to have (after 997-pdk-TURBO)

I think that regardless of it's 'at the limit' ability, if I had one on my drive instead of a Quattroportte GTS, I'd look at it every day and wish I'd bought the Maser....

I'm not a fan of them - from the front I think the design is excellent, in fact, from the front I think the car is very attractive. However, when you move to the side, or the rear, the design falls apart for me.

Being a Porsche, I have no doubt it will drive very well but I have to enjoy the look of the car - appreciate the aesthetics of it - to want to own one.

As a side note, I, as has been debated on this forum, am an enthusiast of the Porsche brand but increasingly am finding my desire to own one relegate to the niche models (RS, GT2). This is primarily driven by the absolute quality of the products the company produce - the 911 is so good that (for me) it fails to impress as a weekend/fun car and instead falls into the daily driver camp. Even the 911 Turbo, which was once a lairy beast (up until, and including, the 964 Turbo 3.6), has become a car that anyone car drive at 9/10ths and get away with almost physic bending lack of fineness and skill.

While they won't make it (it would kill the GT3), I'd love to see a base 911 with few driver aids, which could be ordered with cloth seats and optional removal of rear seats and addition of cage BUT sold for less than the standard C2. In essence a modern Club Sport in the mould of the 968. Now that would be some car!

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I just have to say, 1560 - - - I love your new Avatar.

Months of training must have gone into filming that one.- - -

stole it on another forum

Simon: I agree!!!!
AND Porsche might make such a car, a lighter Cayman S !!!!
with an engine in a "acceptable" position too!!!!

Probably sums it up given all the developments in this direction to date.

911 3.2 Carrera Club Sport circa 1988 would have been my choice of Porsche, but I'm over it now, modern mainstream models too mainstream

Sold for less than the std C2 They'll charge even more for claiming it as light weight limited production model.

If I am not mistaken, the Porsche 968 Club Sport was sold for less than the standard model.

I do agree that it is unlikely that Porsche will follow the same formula were they to do it again.