The new Porsche Panamera is a Turbo S E-Hybrid sedan which makes one appreciate the long journey of the company to reach here. This is a sports sedan with electromobility design which can be classified under the large SUV weight class. It is a modern super sedan with dynamic performance, amazing comforts and to top it all, environmental responsibility.

During the first ride, the Turbo S E-Hybrid Porsche Panamera showed amazing agility and posted remarkable acceleration, thereby relieving the worries of weight issues. The pro drivers Timo Bernhard and Lars Kern were riding this new sedan at the Nardò Test Center in southern Italy and their tests showed better cornering and braking performance stats.

Launch-controlled thrust gave an amazing view of slamming of every head into the backseats with its ability to reach 60 mph in barely more than three seconds. This performance further confirmed that the top speed of 193 mph requires nothing more than a good pair of steady hands on the wheel. The new Porsche has the modern hardware and equipment to pull off its hybridization strategy and it works very well, reported Motortrend.

The mechanicals of this car is a bit different than that of the conventional underpinnings of other hybrid cars. The new Porsche has a dual gasoline-and-electric architecture which gives it a more modern and safer edge in this hybrid category. The car boasts of a 136 hp AC motor which is packed in a ZF eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission-cum-transfer case and it gels well with the 550-hp twin-turbo V-8 engine. This amazing combination of hardware provides a horsepower of 680 and 626 lb-ft worth of torque to move those tires, reported Car and Driver.

The new Porsche Panamera is made up with an extensive use of aluminum and thereby trimming a significant amount of weight. The components used in the car are also quite heavy and tip the scale in the other direction.

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