Because "Sports sedan " is not quite fancy. Sport Limousine. It sounds a complete contradiction in terms: the car is big and fast and fancy, but it is also punchy and nimble to drive. But the Porsche Panamera matches that circle.This gives all the luxuries you expect from a four-door aircraft carrier, along with a sporty driving experience that, in challenging Mountain Road, will leave you with fun.
With a base price of $130,650, GTS sits mid-pack in 21-model Panamera lines that range from an $88,550 entry-level car with a 330-hp turbocharged V-6 under the hood and rear-drive-to range-to the range-to 450, Turbo-gyrase hybrid car.
The GTS got a 453-hp, 457-lb-ft version of The Porsche Verst of Porsche Versatile 4.0-liter V-8, plus an all-wheel drive, the Porsche's Sportistem, and a PASM with a slight damper rate and a lower height than the Panameras.
Other standard features include the satin black-finish 20-inch wheels, sports exhaust, and 18-way adaptive sports chairs. Plus, of course, GTS Bagging, Black.
Gts. Panamera is looked at part and sound part when you switch to the sports exhaust mode. This acted piece, also, eliciting a sincere "Whoaaa! " From the Road Test Editor Chris Walton after the launch of 5,000 RPM, which proposed a smidgen ahead of Wheelspin towards the route 60 mph in 3.3 seconds and 11.6 seconds a quarter-mile at 114.6 mph.
Some contexts: This Porsche 4.69-pound is only a tenth of a second slower 60 seconds then the 630-hp Mercedes-AMG GT four-door we tested last year, and recorded over a quarter mile, although 40% stronger Mercedes almost four mph.
Yes, it's fast, but where GTS Panamera is most impressive, at first acquaintances, is how civilized feels on the freeway and Moo-up around the city at low speeds.
Where strictly popping four-door AMG GT crashes and thumps on the broken runway with the hardness of the race car that ran along the track; there is a magic carpet flavor to ride the Panamera GTS.
Triple-chamber Air suspension provides an impressive travel comfort, and hard impact is also suppressed, such as a roar of aggressive stepping on low-profile tires.
Where this car will steal your heart, however, be on your favorite canyon road, especially when in our tester, with wheel rear wheel ($1.620), torque vector F Plus ($5,000), and Porsche extraordinary PCCB carbon-brake ($8.9). Quite simply, you won't believe how fast this big Porsche is the point, regardless of how many corners are in between.
Control weights-steering and braking-it are almost perfect; their response is very linear, rear wheels and torque vectoring system defect increases turn-in and balance central ceramic, carbon brake large-off brakes when you want to wash thermal speed In an instant.
Some limousines pretend to be sports cars. The Panamera GTS is the limousine's original sports car, four doors, and four chairs providing bonus practice and usability.
Although Chrono Sports software allows you to switch suspension and powertrain from convenience through sports and Sports + Mode, there is no transformation of Jekyll and Hyde from lush to attacking.
Put, the harder you push the Panamera GTS, the more that gives back to you, the layer of accessibility peeling back to uncover the level of competence and deeper engagement.
I had to wait until the restriction legislation ended in detail, but this big Porsche was able to hunt down Shelby GT500 on one of my favorite mountain roads.
It tastes much lighter on its feet than the Mercedes-AMG S 63 or Bentley fly Spur; In terms of its raw, ferocious, fragile capabilities, the Mercedes-AMG GT 63 comes nearby, but Panamera GTS is much better in every fashion, and is quieter everywhere and just because of his eyebrows.
There are an apos; SA fluidity, the maturity of the way Porsche goes to a remarkable path. There are no fancy fast four-doors like that.
The next vanity of glittery from $200,000 – plus fly Spur (which shares many architectural platforms with Porsche) or the presence of imperatives of an S 63, the Porsche Panamera GTS is a rather understated vehicle.
But it is even equipped like our tester — which also comes with the $2,610 Premium package, which includes a Bose audio system, and $780, bringing the total price to $150.460, or in a few thousand of the basic Mercedes-GTSERA car prices for those only Want the best car and the best sport:
2019 Porsche Panamera GTS Specifications
BASE PRICE $129,550PRICE AS TESTED $149,360
VEHICLE LAYOUT Front-engine, AWD, 4-pass, 4-door sedan
ENGINE 4.0L/453-hp/457-lb-ft twin-turbo DOHC 32-valve V-8
TRANSMISSION 8-speed twin-clutch auto
CURB WEIGHT (F/R DIST) 4,669 lb (53/47%)
WHEELBASE 116.1 in
LENGTH x WIDTH x HEIGHT 198.8 x 76.3 x 55.8 in
0-60 MPH 3.3 sec
QUARTER MILE 11.8 sec @ 114.6 mph
BRAKING, 60-0 MPH 105 ft
LATERAL ACCELERATION 1.01 g (avg)
MT FIGURE EIGHT 24.1 sec @ 0.82 g (avg)
EPA CITY/HWY/COMB FUEL ECON 16/23/19 mpg
ENERGY CONS, CITY/HWY 211/147 kW-hrs/100 miles
CO2 EMISSIONS, COMB 1.05 lb/mile
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