NEW Porsche Panamera Turbo S: The Secret Supercar | 4K

This is the Porsche Panamera and it's a very clever proposition, it's basically a luxurious four-seater saloon that also happens to be a pretty good sports car, a bit like Usain Bolt in a business suit. I've always really liked this thing. the Porsche I affectionately refer to as the big dog and this is the new version that might be the biggest of them all. I say new, but this is just a facelift, but this facelift promises a sharper design, a new chassis setup, more power. and a new name Porsche ditched the

panamera

turbo

and replaced it with this, the 135,000 pound

panamera

turbo

s, that's big, but the differences from the previous car are big enough.

Honestly, no, because not much has changed on this car. They've modified the bumper slightly, you now get a body colored section right here and they've replaced the daytime running lights, so on the previous car you had a set of parallel LEDs right here and now you get a broken C design all around . the side hasn't changed much again, but you do get some new wheel designs, these are a terrible 21 inch design, also silver wheels on a blue car, not for me though, plus some new colors, this one is gentian blue in case that you are interested, in the back.

Now you have a new diffuser to give the old car a sportier look. The entire lower section was body color, but now you have this cheap, plasticky, black plastic section, which is not very nice to me, it doesn't scream luxury to me, but I'm a big fan of this new lights section, It now runs the entire width of the car and looks a little more premium. Plus you now get a new gauge design that has a solid section on top and aura lines just below, you'll know once I've started talking about gauges that you've run out of things to say about car design. , right?, yes, yes, they really haven't changed much, let's look inside, first there are some changes to the interior of the new Panamera.

And most importantly, the steering wheel is basically the same as the Porsche 911 turbo, which has a nice floating button design. I like it. Plus, on cars with the Sport Chrono package you get a new Porsche Design watch that's meant to mimic the chronographs of the 1970s and Porsche will even sell you a matching watch if you want to look exactly like your car. Other tweaks, well they have updated the screens in this car both in the instrument binnacle on either side of the tachometer and for the infotainment system, these now run at a much higher resolution and they have also updated the memory to use SSDs both in terms of system memory as well as storage with the intention of making everything much faster, not as fast as, for example, an iPhone, but much faster than the normal sat navs found in most Cars have a warning though occasionally, when you first start the car in the morning for example, the system takes forever to start up, but in general use it's actually very fast, oh.

Yes, I almost forgot, they replaced the USBs, the old ones, the Taipei ones have now been replaced by this type C. No, I'm not bumping into straws, honestly, this is an important feature now, a standard charger for a phone is will charge both. watts and a half or five watts, but now on your panamera you can charge compatible phones with up to 15 watts, which is a great deal, you're looking at me like this, it's not a big deal, honestly, it's great news, believe me, it has new indicators and a new USB is awesome, okay, so it's not exactly packed with features that would tempt you to upgrade, but they've done a big massive update and it's under the hood, right launch control, sport and standby, massage though, maximum shiatsu, full pause, full speed delivery.

Oh that was a punch in the back, it's outrageous, there are two types of speed in this world, it's fast and then it's violently fast, and the Panamera turbo s is the purple type, it doesn't go to 62 in 3.1 seconds and This is not an airy fairy cake. in the sky 3.1 seconds no this has all wheel drive so it will go from 0 to 60 in 3.1 every time and almost anywhere you care to name in the real world this thing is a killer

supercar

and that It is due to a killer engine. The turbo S uses a reinforced version of Porsche's four-liter V8 with turbo, it is the same one that lived in the old turbo, but here the crankshaft connecting rods, the piston timing chain and the torsional vibration dampers have been improved , allowing for higher peak loads, which means it now makes a frankly ridiculous 630 horsepower and 820 Nm of torque, jeez, that massage is good, that's 80 horsepower and 50 Nm more than the previous car, it's obscene and if you keep your foot in it it will do 196 miles per hour at full speed with the kids in the back, the sound isn't that surprising if I'm honest but most of it is due to the fact That this car is so well insulated, I mean, you've got double glazing, you've got thick carpets.

We have enough sound deadening material to basically banish all external noise but when you listen closely you hear a pretty good engine and up front you hear the turbos whistling and it actually adds to the driving experience obviously the power doesn't It is nothing without control. Porsche has worked very hard on the entire control aspect of this car. It now uses steering that is very similar to that of the 911 and the Porsche Tai Cam with the aim of making the steering more responsive and offering more feedback. I don't remember the previous Panamera being as responsive and communicative as this car.

The steering is now more direct without being too nervous and you can definitely feel exactly where the limit of grip is on these Michelin Pilot Sport 4. The Turbo S comes with Porsche. What happens to these animals perfectly on cue? I was just about to talk about the Porsche Porsche ceramic composite brakes which are phenomenal. They come standard on the Panamera Turbo and the stopping power is absolutely incredible. Not only do they take this car from high speed to low speed in a way that is almost as violent as acceleration, but it is repeatable, which is why many high-performance cars have engines that write checks that their brakes can't cash.

As for the chassis, this car has a three-chamber air suspension and is equipped with PVCC sports. porsha sports dynamic chassis control as well as ptv

porsche

torque vectoring pdcc is basically what

porsche

calls its 48 volt active roll stabilization technology, the kind of thing you normally get in big sporty suvs, what it does is it has a engine on the front axle. and a motor on the rear axle and these turn the anti-roll bars essentially forcing the outside wheel down to keep the body flat when cornering and it really works. I can't detect any significant body roll on this car as far as ptv porsche torque vectoring well I didn't think I'd be able to feel its effects here but you really can because what tends to happen on a lot of these performance cars is that dull the sensation of speed, you don't know how. a lot of speed that you carry into a corner until it's too late, what normally happens is that you have understeer, but in this one you don't have understeer, it breaks the inside rear wheel and helps the nose turn in, so you reach your vertex almost every time.

At the moment it works phenomenally and you can feel it, of course there are some drivers who may not appreciate an external driver assistance system having an impact on their driving, but if it works let it do its job together, all of this has allowed to the Panamera. turbo s to achieve a Nürburgring lap time of 7 minutes 27.81, which is faster than a Nissan GTR or Audi R8 V10, plus it's around 13 seconds per lap faster than what the old car achieved ago. four years. What does this mean in the real world? It's not much. Actually 13 seconds on a seven and a half minute lap is a lot, but the Nürburgring has 170 corners, so we're talking milliseconds per corner.

Here comes the curve and if I had been pushing hard on this curve, I would have taken it. about four milliseconds faster, it's just not important in the real world, but hey, that will appeal to some people and bragging rights are very important to people who buy cars like this. Another great holiday trick is that when you relax, the car is cool, comfortable and refined. It's quiet thanks to double-glazed windows, tons of insulation, a smooth ride, all the technology you could want and it's even pretty frugal delivering up to 26 miles per gallon, but all of that is enough if you look objectively at the Panamera Turbo S, really.

There's not much to get excited about, I mean, not unless you're a big fan of the new gauges and faster USB ports, but if you're a new Panamera customer or one of those people who might be tempted by a fast SUV, I'd say you should definitely consider the Panamera Turbo S as an option. The panamera was never about shouting on the outside or having numerous tricks that other people could look at and be impressed with; It was always about the driving experience. and the power and this turbo just turns all that up to 11. this car just proves that the big dog is bigger than ever.