Nearly 200mph for not quite £24K makes for a performance bargain 💪
Demographers study changing human populations to try and work out approaching trends. At PH we try to do the same thing with cars, although calling the future of the used market is always an inexact science. But here's an indisputable fact, highlighted by this week's Pill: 500hp has never been cheaper, in both relative and absolute terms. The rise in power outputs in the 2000s and 2010s has crossed with the inevitable effect of savage depreciation.
The Cayenne was, pretty obviously, an attempt to splice the DNA of a 911 with an SUV. The Panamera is the attempted synthesis between a 911 and an executive saloon. Porsche had been threatening to do something similar for many years - the 1988 989 prototype was almost exactly the same idea two decades earlier.
The same two words can be used to sum-up the rest of the dynamic experience, the Panamera being effective but aloof. It was a supreme get somewhere fast machine, especially in Turbo form - as relaxed and comfortable as a private jet when asked to deliver serious cruising speed. But it also lacked the level of engagement that normally comes as standard in Porsche's sports cars.
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