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2022 Porsche Panamera Platinum Edition Attempts To Stem The Tide

Is there a future for the Porsche Panamera beyond its current generation? With sales of the brand’s original four-door sedan lagging as consumers gobble up the similarly shaped, all-electric Star Award-winning Taycan – which through October had outsold every other vehicle in the lineup sans Macan and Cayenne – it’s a fair question. But in the here and now, Porsche is making, of all things, a value play with the 2022 Panamera Platinum Edition.

Of course, Porsche doesn’t explicitly say “value.” That’s a four-letter word for the high-performance vehicle manufacturer. But a quick look at what the Platinum Edition adds to the Panamera, Panamera 4, and Panamera 4 E-Hybrid (the three most affordable members of the family) makes seeing any other impression tricky. We’ve attached the standard prices to each item’s description, to give you an idea of just how much the Platinum Edition saves owners.

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2021 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo Turbo S E-Hybrid First Drive

By Michael Floyd – MotorTrend

“Is this thing on?” After turning the ignition switch located the left side of the dash (yes, Porsche still does that) of the 2021 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo Turbo S E-Hybrid, the instrument panel and nav screen flash on, but there’s no sonic boom, nothing to indicate that its massive stable of 690 horses have sprung to life. Oh right, it always starts in the fully electric E-Power mode.

Porsche wants you to know there’s plenty of E in its E-Hybrid Panamera models, and it takes me a second to make sure it’s in gear as I silently back up. The top dog of the Panamera line has prodigious power but also a 17.9-kWh battery pack under the trunk plus an electric motor packaged between its 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 and PDK eight-speed dual-clutch transmission. Together, they provide the motivation for the Turbo S E-Hybrid to silently stalk about town.

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2020 Porsche Macan Turbo: Pros And Cons

By Brandon Turkusmotor1

The Turbo badge makes its big return to the smallest Porsche SUV.

Following its refresh for the 2019 model year, the Porsche Macan reintroduces the Turbo model for 2020, offering consumers even more power and performance in an updated package. The twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter V6 (also featured in the Macan GTS, as well as the Cayenne and Panamera) is a familiar companion, working alongside a seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission to help scoot the smallest Porsche SUV to 60 in as little as 4.1 seconds.

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2020 Porsche Cayenne Coupe Review: Easy To Like, Hard To Love

By: Brett T. EvansMotor1

Four decades ago, if you had some expendable income and wanted to show off, you bought a personal luxury coupe. That loaded Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Ford Thunderbird, or Chrysler Cordoba showed the world that you valued style over practicality, and you were monied enough to make such a decision. Times have changed, but the word to describe such a vehicle hasn’t. Enter the 2020 Porsche Cayenne Coupe.

We could argue the semantics of calling any four-door offering – let alone a crossover – a coupe, but instead, let’s just evaluate the fastback Cayenne for what it is. To do that, Porsche offered us a stylishly appointed base model, which features a turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 making 335 horsepower and 332 pound-feet. With a starting price of $75,300, the Cayenne Coupe demands an additional $9,000 relative to the regular SUV, though it does include standard niceties like a panoramic glass roof, eight-way power sport seats, and the Sport Chrono Package.

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2021 Porsche 911 Turbo Arrives With 572 HP For Millionaires On A Budget

By Chris BruceMotor1

Save $30k over a Turbo S by sacrificing 68 HP.

The 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo coupe and cabriolet arrive to fill the void in the 992-generation lineup between the Carrera S and Turbo S. Prices start at $170,800 for the hardtop and $183,600 for the convertible (plus a $1,350 destination charge for them). They’re available to order now in the US, but American deliveries don’t begin until early 2021.

The 2021 911 Turbo packs a 3.8-liter, twin-turbo flat-six engine making 572 horsepower (427 kilowatts) and 553 pound-feet (750 Newton-meters) of torque. It can reach 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour) in 2.7 seconds for the coupe and 2.8 seconds for the convertible. Both have a top speed of 198 mph (319 kph).

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The Top Gear car review: Porsche 911 Turbo S

By TopGear

Taken objectively, the last Porsche 911 Turbo was all the sports car you’d ever need. Its jet speed and sure-footed handling combined with all the boring-but-true facts about being reliable and easy to live to make it nigh on perfect. But, thanks to our monkey brains’ insatiable desire for more power, control, grip and car park status, it wasn’t all that you’d want forever.

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2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet First Drive: Isolation Angel

By Jonny Lieberman – Words, Brandon Lim – Photos – MotorTrend

I eyeballed the achingly good-looking, red-roofed 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet in GT Silver Metallic parked out front next to my Ford. The fleet company left the sanitized key inside the unlocked car then essentially ding-dong ditched me. This Porsche 911 Carrera S—the first convertible version of the Best Driver’s Car-winning 992 that MotorTrend has had in for testing—will not be tested.

The California Speedway, our test facility, was not designated as an “essential” business (methinks someone in Sacramento is gonna need to give the word “essential” a rethink) and as a result, we ain’t testing nothing for the foreseeable future. What to do with this $147,280 thing, then? A rhetorical question, for sure, though with the world’s economy tanked and in the gutter, a relevant rhetorical query at least.

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2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S First Drive: Better Than Ever

By Chris Walton – Words, William Walker – Photos – MotorTrend

“So, whaddaya think?” Jonny Lieberman asked with his arms folded, head tilted back and to the left, as Jonny does. He had just driven the 992-generation 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S to our photo location on L.A. ‘s favorite twisty bit, Angeles Crest Highway. He lives a few miles from the base of the hill, so he knows this stretch of road by heart.

“Unreal! How did they do that? It’s a blend of what the 991.2 Turbo S was and a GT3 RS,” I said. “It’s sharp, delicate, precise, talkative, but bloody fast, too. I wasn’t expecting this at all. This is a driver’s car.”

“Yeah,” Jonny said. “This car is definitely headed to MotorTrend’s 2020 Best Driver’s Car.”

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Porsche Taycan Turbo Review: First UK Test

By Matt Master

The Taycan in Blighty. What’s new?Well, nothing and everything. This is Porsche’s first fully electric car, and as such the first proper production EV from a legacy manufacturer that puts performance first. This could revolutionise the way the UK regards e-mobility.

Is it going to?

Not overnight, no, because at £116K on the road for this ‘Turbo’, it’s too expensive for the most of us, but then, so is a 911 GT3 and that’s still part of the conversation. And the Taycan is doing that all-important missionary job of softening up the cynics and inducting the masses. You’ll be seeing enough of these around in the next few months to start accepting them as part of our motoring landscape. Which in this instance means a silent 680bhp and 0-124mph in 10.6 seconds is the new normal. Porsche’s normal at any rate.

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What Comes With the 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S’s Sport Design Package?

By Greg FinkMotorTrend

We have details on the 2021 Porsche 911 kit’s visual bang, which likely costs a lot of bucks.

The 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S is an undeniably attractive (and hugely powerful) car, but say you want to make it stand out a little more? Then Porsche’s recently unveiled Sport Design package might interest you. While the sports car manufacturer initially showed photos of the package on a Lava Orange 911 Turbo S Cabriolet, it did not share the kit’s specifics or price. We now have details on those specifics, though, unfortunately, no word yet on its cost.

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