LONG-WHEELBASE PORSCHE PANAMERA IN THE WORKS
Stretched Panamera is coming in 2012
Not what an LWB Panamera will look like...Porsche is working on a long-wheelbase version of its Panamera fastback-ey saloon thingummy for launch in 2012, according to a report in US magazine AutoWeek.
Porsche is set to bring the stretched Panamera to market to help satisfy demand from customers in Chinese and North American markets for extra rear legroom - though we doubt that making the Panamera leggier will do much for its already dubious looks.
All the extra length in the car would come from a larger door aperture and longer rear door (just as shown in our exclusive, state-of-the-art artist's impression, right) and should push the Panamera's wheelbase up by almost 130mm to around 3050mm.
That's still a fair bit shorter than the Mercedes S-class, mind which sits at 3150mm, or the Jaguar XJ LWB at 3157mm, so perhaps the established luxury limo competition need not worry just yet.
But what about the other, oft-repeated rumours of other body styles, such as a Panamera Convertible or a shooting brake?
Nothing doing just yet, it seems. "We've decided to wait until the second-generation model before adding alternative body styles," a Porsche source told AutoWeek. "We're already flat-out meeting demand for a single body style as it is."
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=23189
Stretched Panamera is coming in 2012
Not what an LWB Panamera will look like...Porsche is working on a long-wheelbase version of its Panamera fastback-ey saloon thingummy for launch in 2012, according to a report in US magazine AutoWeek.
Porsche is set to bring the stretched Panamera to market to help satisfy demand from customers in Chinese and North American markets for extra rear legroom - though we doubt that making the Panamera leggier will do much for its already dubious looks.
All the extra length in the car would come from a larger door aperture and longer rear door (just as shown in our exclusive, state-of-the-art artist's impression, right) and should push the Panamera's wheelbase up by almost 130mm to around 3050mm.
That's still a fair bit shorter than the Mercedes S-class, mind which sits at 3150mm, or the Jaguar XJ LWB at 3157mm, so perhaps the established luxury limo competition need not worry just yet.
But what about the other, oft-repeated rumours of other body styles, such as a Panamera Convertible or a shooting brake?
Nothing doing just yet, it seems. "We've decided to wait until the second-generation model before adding alternative body styles," a Porsche source told AutoWeek. "We're already flat-out meeting demand for a single body style as it is."
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=23189
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