If you expected Porsche to tear up the design rulebook and start from scratch with the Panamera II, then you’re obviously unacquainted with Stuttgart’s styling practices.
Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Porsche’s designers won’t lift a finger, but that they will take the existing Panamera formula and correct and prettify it, if that makes sense.
If you take the shooting brake-style 2012 Panamera Sport Turismo concept and turn it into a lift back model, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what the new Panamera will look like.
As evidenced by this latest prototype, it will have sportier proportions and crispier lines throughout, all while keeping its family ties with the current model, which may have not won much praise for its looks, but it filled Porsche’s coffers quite nicely, thank you very much.
Design aside, the next Panamera will ride on Porsche’s freshly developed and lighter MSB platform and get a new generation of V6 and V8 gasoline units together with a diesel and a plug-in hybrid. As with the current car, there will be both rear- and all-wheel drive models.
The Panamera is still a couple years away, with the market launch believed to occur in late 2016 or early 2017.
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