RE: Porsche Panamera Shooting Brake spy shots

[k-ink]

Not exactly beautiful, but it is a VAST improvement on the horrific Panny rear end.

[DonkeyApple]

I've always like the Panamera apart from what I thought was a shocking rear end and a dashboard that looked like a £49 80s Makro stereo riddled with all those facile little buttons.

An estate would look superb and should have been the original delivery. Whether they will give it an adult interior is a different matter.

[Amirhussain]

I think that looks good

[snoopy25]

From the side shots it looks like a squashed Honda Civic EG6

[canucklehead]

andy97 said:

I think the Shooting Brake is the style they should have introduced in the first place, but that C Pillar looks a bit too much - doesn't do too much for rear quarter viibility?

I wonder when they will introduce the 2+2 Coupe version in to the range? They could call it, oh I dont know......the 928!

Commandment 47 of 21st Century Car Design: "Thou shalt ensure that all C-pillars are unfeasibly wide and utterly eliminate rear three-quarter vision, thus allowing marketing to flog useless video camera options to the public in the name of safety."

[galro]

canucklehead said:

Commandment 47 of 21st Century Car Design: "Thou shalt ensure that all C-pillars are unfeasibly wide and utterly eliminate rear three-quarter vision, thus allowing marketing to flog useless video camera options to the public in the name of safety."

While the final c-pillar will probably be quite wide, what you are looking at is just a plate that have been put on top of the rearmost windows to hide some of the final shape and detailing of the car.

[patch5674]

I really like the Panamera, I agree with others that pictures really don't do it justice, in the right colour its so long and low it really is quite striking. Particularly in side profile. I am actually not sure I like the look of the side windows of the new one (not the shooting brake the standard) it looks like an A7

[TooMany2cvs]

Maxus said:

Looks like the Vauxhall Signum was ahead of its time after all.

Not just me thinking that, then.

[MDMA .]

I was thinking 4 door Alfa Brera

[je777]

'Shooting brake', my jacksy. It's an estate.

'What car do you drive?'
'Oh, I've got a diesel Volvo shooting brake.'

[DonkeyApple]

je777 said:

'Shooting brake', my jacksy. It's an estate.

'What car do you drive?'
'Oh, I've got a diesel Volvo shooting brake.'

It is a shooting brake as much as any minicab is executive. It's just words rendered meaningless by polo necked butt pluggers.

Post war an early Rangie was a shooting brake but by the 70s it had become synonymous with 2 door luxury, low volume estates and no longer actually had anything to do with transporting guns over an estate.

In addition, it's a very British term that seems at odds being applied to a mass produced, generic German utility vehicle.

I agree that this car is an estate. But then when someone says to me today that they drive an estate car, I think less of this:



And more of one of these:

[wtdoom]

I feel so inadequate, surrounded by so many super heroes with x ray vision . Poor doom

[truck71]

MikeGalos said:

And the transition from "sports car" company to "lifestyle status symbol" company moves even closer to reality. All that's left is the Porsche mini-van.

It's already there. The GT models look great but the rest is now just bling.

[hornetrider]

Difficult to tell from the disguised platform, however...



Ridiculously good looking. How they can sew this silk purse out of the steaming pile that is the Panamera is mind boggling.

[Andy75]

No. That rear view makes it look like a tubby-chick's fat rolls bursting over the top of her jeans. The side looks way too fussy - the designer must have had a penchant for over-'roided muscle marys.

Hard pass.

[Ozzie Osmond]

Almost as fatuous as,



See also - Mercedes daft "fastback estate coupes".

[freshkid]

I love it. Will almost certainly be in the market for one of these when they come out. Hurry up please!

[Europa1]

je777 said:

'Shooting brake', my jacksy. It's an estate.

'What car do you drive?'
'Oh, I've got a diesel Volvo shooting brake.'

To me, 4 doors and a tailgate = estate. 2 doors and tailgate: shooting brake. And no, nitpickers, that does not mean something like a 3 door Golf is a shooting brake.

[TooMany2cvs]

Europa1 said:

To me, 4 doors and a tailgate = estate. 2 doors and tailgate: shooting brake. And no, nitpickers, that does not mean something like a 3 door Golf is a shooting brake.

[Ozzie Osmond]

2 doors and a tailgate is a van - with side windows.