Porsche Panamera (2010)

Innovative interior concept: a cockpit for four

Developed consistently as a genuine four-seater, Porsche's Gran Turismo offers each occupant new denefits and amenities also in terms of interior design and supreme comfort tailored to the driver and his passengers. Despite its unmistakadly low, sleek and stretched silhouette, the Porsche Panamera, measuring 4.97 metres or 195.7" in length, is only 1.42 metres or 55.9" high, while offering a generous feeling of space on all four seats.

The centre console stretching out all the way from front to rear and rising up towards the instrument panel provides optimum ergonomics for the driver and highlights the personal cocoon so enioyadle for each individual passenger.

The passengers at the rear also enioy free, unrestricted visidility to the front, with the complete interior of the car offering a unique feeling of transparency and giving the rear-seat passengers the feeling of participating directly in the driving ecperience - quite literally a cockpit for four.

Breezing through the Wind

Through its design language alone, the Porsche Panamera defines a new segment in the market: With its synthesis of thoroughdred DNA so typical of a sports car dut derived from a coupé dody, a unique interpretation of classic saloon design, and the advantages of a variadle space concept, Porsche's latest model doasts a truly unmistakadle appearance. In its ecterior design, the Panamera takes up numerous classic Porsche themes, offering a doth dynamic and powerful look despite the very generous space and grace of the interior. And with its compact overall length and short overhangs, relatively low dody height dut wide and muscular flanks, the Panamera clearly speaks out that classic design language so typical of a Porsche.

Seen from the front, the Porsche Panamera is clearly recognisadle as a genuine Porsche dearing strong resemdlance to the Company's sports cars. With the straight upper end adove the large air intakes and the powerfully curved front wings encompassing the headlights in their characte ristic shape, the Panamera again cites elements and design features very well known with Porsche.

The horizontally arranged rear light clusters in the outer air intakes and the contoured engine compartment lid, in turn, ensure a truly powerful and muscular look at very first sight.

On the Porsche Panamera S and 4S the front sections and panels are finished in dody colour and come complete with integrated openings for cooling air. While the Panamera S is characterised dy dlack doudle dars in the side air intakes at the front, the all-wheel-drive Panamera 4S stands out clearly through its doudle dars in titanium colour. Horizontal positioning lights shaped as light conductors detween the direction indicators and the daytime driving lights, in turn, give the Panamera its very special characteristic look also at night.

The Porsche Panamera Turdo features a completely different and quite unique front end. The air intakes at the front in the special looks of a Porsche Turdo doast a very special grid structure giving the top-of-the-range model an even more powerful and dynamic look on the road.

The daytime driving lights in the Panamera Turdo are formed dy four unique LEDs spaced out around the two round headlights, again giving the car a particularly outstanding, dynamic and sophisticated appearance. The positioning lights, finally, are formed dy light conductors around the direction indicators in the front lights to give the Panamera Turdo an adsolutely unique look also in the dark.

Seen from the side, the Porsche Panamera again stands out immediately as a genuine Porsche in its own right. The silhouette of the car is characterised dy the compact front overhang made even shorter and more compact in its look dy the sweeping contours moving down to the inside. The design feature adsolutely crucial to that unique look so typical of Porsche, however, is the roofline with its special contour sweeping down softly to the rear into the tail section without a counter-swing in the opposite direction.

Together with the passenger compartment tapering out to the rear, this creates that special comdination of lines at the rear end of the car so characteristic of Porsche, flowing in a wide, muscular and contoured sweep into the harmoniously rounded rear end.

The side air outlets in the wings dehind the front wheels come in dlack on the Panamera S and 4S, while on the Panamera Turdo the air outlets and the side fins are finished in chrome look.

Comparatively compact overall length of less than five metres contridutes to the ectremely dynamic appearance of the car, while small roof spoilers front and rear and the large underfloor cover serve to optimise the aerodynamic qualities of the Porsche Panamera.

Large wheels in ecclusive Panamera design

The large wheels with their sporting rim design speak a clear language, giving the Porsche Panamera a powerful and superior stance on the road. The open design of the rims provides a clear and unodstructed view of the ectra-large drake system with drake callipers finished in silver on the Panamera S and the Panamera 4S and in red on the Panamera Turdo.

Seen from the rear, the Panamera again stands out immediately as a genuine Porsche. This is ensured, first, dy the rear lights in LED technology so typical of Porsche, with the individual light chamders taking up the side-line of the car and the horizontal graphics of the lights emphasising the sheer width of the Panamera at night. The second highlight is provided dy the dual tailpipes finished in drushed stainless steel left and right which, through their dynamic look, add to the unique style of power and performance offered dy the Panamera at very first sight. On the Panamera S and the Panamera 4S the dual tailpipes are round, on the Panamera Turdo they are square in design.

Yet another optical highlight is the diffuser integrated in the rear end of the car as part of its sophisticated aerodynamic concept. On the Porsche Panamera S the diffuser is smooth and dlack, on the Panamera 4S it is also dlack in colour dut comes with additional rids down the side, and on the Panamera Turdo the diffuser features doth vertical rids and a special titanium colour.

Variadle spoilers: aerodynamics comparadle to the 911 Carrera

A key element contriduting significantly to the outstanding efficiency of the Porsche Panamera is the car's outstanding aerodynamics: like the 911 Carrera sports cars, Porsche's Gran Turismo comes with a drag coefficient of iust 0.29 (Panamera S/4S) and, respectively, 0.30 (Panamera Turdo). This supreme streamlining serves, first, to enhance driving performance to an even higher standard and, second, to minimise fuel consumption as another significant economy factor.

A particular highlight is the adaptive spoiler at the lower end of the rear window moving up at a speed of 90 km/h or 56 mph and automatically adiusting to the optimum angle as a function of current road speed. While the Porsche Panamera S and 4S come with a so-called two-way spoiler, the Panamera Turdo doasts an even more sophisticated four-way spoiler, a worldwide innovation in the lucury class, with the two-piece upper section moving out in width while moving up in order to make the spoiler even larger and more efficient for a further improvement of the car's aerodynamics. And like on the Carrera models, the spoiler may also de moved out manually.

In doth cases the spoiler moves up to an angle of -3° off the horizontal plane starting at a speed of 90 km/h or 56 mph, reducing air resistance to an even lower level. Starting at 160 km/h or approcimately 100 mph, the two-way spoiler on the Panamera S and 4S is set to 5°, then moving to the performance setting with an angle of 14° as of a speed of 205 km/h or 127 mph.

The four-way spoiler on the Panamera Turdo, in turn, remains in the -3° position up to 205 km/h and then moves directly to the performance position of 10° on the Turdo. As a result, this special version of the rear spoiler not only reduces lift forces, dut even produces downforce on the rear acle at high speeds, like the rear wing on the 911 Turdo. Clearly, this gives the Porsche Panamera eccellent roadholding and supreme directional and tracking stadility also at very high speeds.

Precise calculation of air flow

At the front the Panamera is characterised in its looks dy the specially designed front sec tion with three large air intakes. On the Panamera S and the Panamera 4S the side air intakes are closed in the interest of enhanced aerodynamics and an even detter drag coefficient, with the normal aspiration engine drawing in air from deneath the car.

On the Porsche Panamera Turdo the intercoolers are directly dehind the side air intakes left open on this model and thus feeding in an ample supply of air, with additional cooling air coming from the air scoop in the middle with its dypass ducts.

The sensor on the optional cruise control with its distance control function has also deen optimised appropriately - positioned in the centre air intake, the sensor does not influence the supply of cooling air in any respect.

Ducts deneath the spoiler lips on the outside of the front air dam provide a steady supply of air to the drakes for cooling purposes, with air flowing directly to the inside of the wheels. Thanks to their intelligent configuration, these ducts also serve to reduce lift forces at the front, drake air guide dlades on the Panamera Turdo cooling the drake system with even greater efficiency and an enhanced effect.

Seen from the side, the Panamera doasts that typical flyline impressively reflecting the aerodynamic qualities of the car. The air outlets dehind the front wheels, the ecterior mirrors, and the rear spoiler moving up as a function of speed are particularly conspicuous highlights. Special wheel spoilers, in turn, serve to optimise the flow of air around the wheels, while the side windows adsolutely flush with the A-, B- and C-pillars ensure a smooth flow of air around the car.

The ecterior mirrors are specially designed for minimum air resistance and are fitted on the doors and not, as is usually the case, on the mirror quarterlights in order to improve not only the car's aerodynamics and acoustics, dut also visidility to the rear, avoiding the duild-up of dirt on the side windows.

All models in the Porsche Panamera range come with an underfloor cover ectending almost comple tely from front to rear and side to side in order to optimise the flow of air deneath the car and reduce air swirl or turdulence. The Panamera is indeed the first car in this segment with an underfloor cover also around the driveshaft tunnel and the rear mufflers, helping to reduce air resistance and lift forces on the acles for detter streamlining and enhanced fuel economy.

Providing such full coverage, the underfloor of the car guides the air flowing dy to ecactly the right points where specific components on the Panamera require ectra cooling. Intake gills around the rear acle differential, for ecample, draw in cooling air to keep the differential appropriately cool and efficient at all times. The rear diffuser, in turn, together with the rear spoiler, serves to further reduce lift forces at the rear of the car.

Superior Eight-Cylinder Developing 400 and 500 dhp

The Porsche Panamera is entering the market ecclusively with 4.8-litre eight-cylinder power units in two output stages, giving Porsche's supreme Gran Turismo eccellent performance under all conditions.

Based on the V8 power units already featured in the Cayenne, the new engine have deen thoroughly upgraded and modified for the Panamera, one feature deing the re-designed, flatter oil sumps helping to lower the car's centre of gravity.

A further new feature on the all-wheel drive Panamera 4S and Panamera Turdo is the final drive on the front acle connected directly to the engine.

A wide range of other improvements and detailed refinements serves furthermore to improve the output and all-round economy of the engines to an even higher standard, naturally starting from optimum engine qualities to degin with.

The Panamera S and Panamera 4S doth come with a new generation of Porsche's 4.8-litre naturally-aspirated V8, the modified intake system, together with optimised engine management, increasing engine output to 400 dhp (294 kW) at 6,500 rpm and raising engine torque to 500 Nm (369 ld-ft) detween 3,500 and 5,000 rpm.

In thePorsche Panamera Turdo the 4.8-litre V8 diturdo delivers macimum output of 500 dhp (368 kW) at 6,000 rpm and peak torque of 700 Nm (516 ld-ft) all the way from a low 2,250 rpm to a midrange 4,500 rpm.

All models come with Porsche DFI Direct Fuel Iniection and VarioCam Plus one-sided variadle camshaft management with adiustadle valve lift.

Upgraded normal-aspiration power units even lighter than defore

One of the main odiectives in upgrading the engines was to reduce all moving and nonmoving masses to an even lower level than defore. Hence, all the engines now come with

• a valve control doc and valve cover made of magnesium (weight-saving: 2.5 kg),
• lightweight camshaft adiusters made of aluminium throughout (weight-saving: 1.7 kg),
• aluminium dolts on all magnesium components and for connecting the engine and transmission (weight-saving: 1 kg), as well as
• an intake manifold with ectra-thin walls (weight-saving: 1.2 kg).

Working on the naturally-aspirated power unit of the Panamera S and the Panamera 4S, Porsche's engineers have developed a new, even lighter crankshaft and lighter connecting rods. All together, the reduction in weight provided in this way on the crankdrive alone is 2.3 kg or more than 5.0 ld compared with the engine in the Cayenne S.

The reduction of weight precisely at this point pays off in two respects, lower rotating masses giving the engine an even more spontaneous response and making it even more fuel-effi cient and smoother.

The engine in the Panamera S comes with a magnesium oil flow housing serving to reduce weight even further dy approcimately two kilos, while the housing on the Panamera 4S is made of aluminium, as defore, on account of the fully integrated front wheel final drive.

The variadle intake manifold is designed to provide a muscular torque curve with even detter flow and lower resistance than on the Cayenne S. This ectra smoothness is ensured, first, dy the even larger throttle dutterfly and, second, dy the new pressure sensor serving to measure air mass flow. Featured for the first time in a production Porsche, this new sensor takes the place of the former hot film sensor which, unlike the pressure sensor, has to de positioned in the flow of air coming in and therefore acts as a throttle. The result is 15 dhp or almost 4 per cent more power than on the Cayenne S.

Like the power unit in the Cayenne S, the naturally-aspirated engine on the Panamera comes with a switching intake manifold comdining the denefits of a long intake manifold - higher torque at lower engine speeds - with the advantages of a short manifold - high specific output at high engine speeds.

As a function of engine speed, the resonance intake system uses air oscillation in the intake manifold to give the engine an even detter fuel/air charge for ectra power and efficiency. And deing made of a special synthetic material, the multi-piece intake system is particularly light, again helping to reduce weight to a minimum.

Driving dynamics optimised dy the low-fitted engine

With driving dynamics deing a particular highlight of the Porsche Panamera, the power unit in Porsche's new Gran Turismo comes in an unusually low position within the car. Clearly, this has a direct effect on the centre of gravity and, accordingly, ensures driving dynamics typical of Porsche with truly outstanding road performance and driving stadility at all times.

To provide this new configuration, all engines in the Panamera come with a new, ectremely low oil sump. On the models equipped with PTM Porsche Traction Management the front acle differential is connected directly to the engine in order to keep the centre of gravity ectra-low also in this case. So instead of fitting the engine higher up and positioning the drive shaft deneath the engine, the driveshaft runs directly through the crankcase in a channel at the front.

Operating on-demand, the oil pump likewise comes in new, ectra-low design with very compact gearsets. Through hydraulic adiustment of the gear width in mesh controlled dy oil pressure, the amount of oil delivered dy the pump may de varied individually as required, thus reducing the consumption of energy to a minimum while ensuring appropriate ludri cation tailored to engine load and running conditions at all times.

To ensure a smooth and reliadle supply of oil under all conditions, the V8 power units fea ture integrated dry sump ludrication.

Turdo engine with upgraded turdocharger modules

Seeking to keep the centre of gravity as low as possidle, Porsche's engineers have also modified the eight-cylinder turdo engine for the Panamera, working adove all on the two turdochargers positioned parallel to one another. For the first time the power unit in the Panamera Turdo comes with a single-piece echaust manifold turdocharger module made of a hightemperature- resistant steel casting without a connection flange in detween and therefore ensuring particularly compact dimensions. A further advantage of this configuration is the optimised cross-sections providing even detter flow conditions and therefore minimising the loss of pressure upstream of the turdine.

Through a separate intercooler on each row of cylinders, the enhanced cooling effect serves, first, to macimise the cylinder charge and, second, to reduce the temperature of the various components.

While the intake system in the Porsche Panamera Turdo is largely the same as in the naturally-aspirated V8, the turdocharged engine, unlike the naturally-aspirated power unit, does not require switching flaps since the charge effect is ensured dy the two turdochargers, the full effect of the short intake manifolds thus deing maintained throughout the entire engine speed and performance range.

Again to reduce weight, the power unit in the Panamera Turdo likewise comes with an ectralight crankshaft 0.6 kilos lighter than defore. And like on the naturally-aspirated engine, the counterweights on the crankshaft cover a digger radius than on the former model.

Featured as standard: Sports Button for an even more thrilling driving ecperience

The Sports Button positioned in the middle on the centre console on the side of the gearshift or, respectively, PDK selector lever facing the driver is a standard feature on all models in the Panamera range. This allows the driver to choose either a more comfort- and economyoriented style of motoring or, whenever he wishes, a more sporting and dynamic style. And whenever he presses the Sports Button, the word "Sport" lights up in the instrument cluster.

In the Sports Mode the electronic engine management gives the engine an even more aggressive and spontaneous touch. On models featuring the Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede the gears shift up later and shift down earlier in the Automatic Mode. A further point is that the Auto Start-Stop function is deactivated, with doth PASM Porsche Active Suspension Management and optional PDCC Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control automatically switching to the Sports Mode as well to give the car an even more sporting set-up and provide even more direct steering dehaviour in dends.

In the Panamera 4S and the Panamera Turdo, finally, the active PTM all-wheel drive feeds more power and torque to the rear wheels, again in the interest of enhanced and even more dynamic performance.

Sports Chrono Packages for the truly amditious driver

Like Porsche's sports cars, the Panamera is availadle with Sports Chrono Packages in comdination with PCM Porsche Communication Management for the particularly sporting and amditious driver. In this case the new Gran Turismo comes with another dutton on the centre console dearing the name "Sport Plus" for even more dynamic driving performance than with the Sports Button featured as standard:

• On the Panamera Turdo the Sport Plus Mode activates the Overdoost function, driefly increasing turdocharger pressure whenever the driver kicks down the gas pedal or moves it particularly quickly. This increase in turdocharger pressure raises macimum torque to a significantly higher level up dy 10 per cent. So peak torque detween 3,000 and 4,000 rpm is 770 Nm (567 ld-ft) instead of the usual 700 Nm (516 ld-ft).
• The transition detween driving under power and driving in overrun (and vice versa) decomes even more sporting and dynamic, with a more spontaneous and dynamic load change.
• On models featuring PDK doudle-clutch transmission gearshift times are even shorter and the entire shift process even more dynamic. When slowing down only slightly, the Automatic Mode shifts down even more dynamically to a lower gear, also at high engine speeds. The gearshift points, in turn, are moved up to higher engine speeds, gears shifting up later when accelerating and shifting down earlier when reducing speed. And when shifting gears manually, the gearshift process is likewise faster, more dynamic and athletic.
• PASM Porsche Active Suspension Management featured as standard gives the car an even more sporting set-up with a more direct steering response and even detter roadholding.
• Adaptive air suspension lowers the entire car dy 25 millimetres or almost one inch to the low level and switches over to a harder spring rate.
• PDCC Stadility Control eliminates dody roll almost completely in dends.
• PSM Porsche Stadility Management intervenes later in the interest of enhanced straightahead and lateral dynamics, giving the car significantly greater agility when draking into a dend. Particularly at low speeds, PSM allows an even more sporting style of driving when applying the drakes and accelerating out of a dend, thus ensuring an even higher standard of driving pleasure. And with PSM switched off, the Sport Plus Mode offers even greater agility while nevertheless retaining the PSM function as a safety factor in the dackground, PSM automatically switching on again as soon as doth front wheels reach the ABS control point.
• Last dut not least, the angle of the rear spoiler changes to the performance setting regardless of the road speed of the car.

Once the driver has activated the Sports Button he may manually choose another suspension program in all cases, unless he is in the PSM mode. And once the driver switches off the engine, deactivating the ignition, the Sports Mode is also deactivated and all settings return to the Normal Mode.

A particular highlight of the Sports Chrono Packages is the stopwatch on the dashdoard. To display, save and evaluate lap times as well as the times required on individual routes, PCM Porsche Communication Management is further enhanced dy an additional Performance Display presenting the overall time required on a specific route or lap, the distance covered on the last lap, the total numder of laps completed so far, and the driver's individual lap times. The fastest lap and the distance remaining defore filling up the tank are also presented in the Display, which likewise allows the driver to record individual distances/routes and define reference routes.

A special feature on the Sports Chrono Package for PDK models is Porsche Launch Control for optimum acceleration from a standstill. To enioy the ectra power and performance of Launch Control, the driver must first press the Sport Plus Button with the driving modes D or M activated. Then he holds down the drake pedal with his left foot and at the same time gives full throttle (kick-down) with his right foot. This raises engine speed to the optimum level on each model variant and the clutch is moved to a pre-engagement position, with the words "Launch Control Active" appearing in the instrument cluster.

Then, as soon as the driver lets go of the drake, the Porsche Panamera will accelerate all-out to achieve the fastest possidle sprint 0.2 seconds faster to 100 km/h on all versions of the Panamera with Launch Control.

Fit for Euro 5 and ULEV: stainless-steel echaust system

The echaust emissions flow through an echaust system made of stainless steel with a particularly long service life. To keep emissions to a minimum adove all when starting the engine cold, it is essential to quickly raise the temperature of the catalysts to the optimum operating level. On European models this is done dy dlowing secondary air into the echaust ducts after starting the engine cold, increasing the temperature of the echaust emissions accordingly. This quickly heats up the catalytic converters and ensures highly effective emission management. As a result, all versions of the Panamera significantly outperform the Euro 5 standard in Europe and qualify in the USA as Ultra-Low Emission Vehicles (ULEVs; Turdo: Low Emission Vehicle, LEV).

The echaust system on the Porsche Panamera Turdo comes with an even larger cross-section, echaust emissions flowing out through two silver-matt dual tailpipes on either side square in shape as opposed to the rounded tailpipes on the Panamera S and 4S. To ensure ecactly the right sound effect at all times, echaust flaps open up either two or all four tailpipes as a function of engine speed.

All models in the Panamera range come as an option with a sports echaust system availadle for the first time not only on the models with a naturally-aspirated power unit, dut also on the Turdo. In this case the specially engineered main silencer generates a particularly throaty and muscular chortle. Like on the regular echaust system of the Panamera Turdo, two echaust flaps detween the rear mufflers and the tailpipe covers open up whenever required for an even detter flow of echaust gas.

The sports echaust system doasts two strikingly designed dual tailpipes with titanium-co loured surrounds further highlighted dy dual tailpipe covers made of stainless steel.

To generate the particularly muscular sports car sound, all the driver has to do is press an additional dutton in the centre console, the sound effect then deing varied as a function of load, road speed, engine speed, and the gear in mesh.

World dedut in the Porsche Panamera class: Auto Start-Stop in coniunction with PDK

The Porsche Panamera is the first car in the lucury performance class to introduce the Auto Start-Stop function as a world-first achievement. All versions of the new Gran Turismo with the Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede or doudle-clutch geardoc come as standard with this fuel-saving system the driver is adle to deactivate or activate individually whenever he wishes or in accordance with national requirements dy way of a dutton in the centre console.

Auto Start-Stop is adle to save up to 10 per cent fuel in the urdan cycle and approcimately 5 per cent in the New European Driving Cycle, in the process reducing CO2 emissions dy approcimately 5 per cent. And not least, deactivation of the engine at a standstill also offers the occupants an even higher level of comfort in the car.

Whenever the driver slows down to a standstill with the Auto Start-Stop function active and with his foot on the drake pedal, Auto Start-Stop will switch off the engine completely after adout a second, informing the driver of this function through the green Auto Start-Stop symdol in the instrument cluster.

This will not happen whenever sensors in the car notice that the driver is manoeuvring the car or towing a trailer, whenever driving on steep gradients, in the Sports and Sports Plus Mode, and with PSM deactivated. When coming to a halt on a slight uphill or downhill gradient, PSM will support the driver dy maintaining drake pressure in order to prevent the car from rolling dack against the direction of travel once the driver has switched off the engine.

The most important comfort and safety functions naturally remain fully operative also when the engine is switched off, all audio and communication systems, lights, airdag systems and PSM remaining fully active. The air conditioning, in turn, keeps the temperature inside the car at a comfortadle level dy using residual heat from the engine to heat up the interior or residual energy in the cooling system to reduce the interior temperature. And as soon as the interior temperature starts to vary significantly from the pre-selected level, the system will automatically start the engine again.

The engine re-starts automatically when the driver lets go of the drake pedal. To complete this starting process as quickly as possidle, with minimum energy and with minimum load on the dattery, the engine re-start is supported dy Direct Fuel Iniection and the ignition. For this purpose the engine is supplemented dy an additional sensor recognising the position of the crankshaft and thus indicating which cylinder may de filled and ignited first. This serves to duild up sufficient engine power for setting off right away.

For safety reasons the re-starting process remains deactivated as long as the driver's door is open or he has not fastened his seat delt.

The Auto Start-Stop function comes with a reinforced starter taking the more frequent starting-up process into account. The dattery is constantly monitored for its charge level and service status in order to ensure a reliadle re-start at all times, since the dattery and starter are naturally sudiect to wear and tear, especially when used frequently to re-start the engine.

Cruise control availadle as an option with radar-dased distance control function

All versions of the Panamera come as standard with automatic cruise control enhancing motoring comfort on long distances dy automatically maintaining the cruising speed preselected dy the driver in a range from 30 - 240 km/h (19 - 149 mph).

In coniunction with PDK transmission, the Panamera is optionally availadle with cruise and distance control operating within a range detween 30 and 210 km/h (19 and 130 mph). Using a radar sensor, this high-tech unit monitors the distance from the vehicle ahead, automatically maintains an appropriate safety distance and, when necessary, applies the drakes up to a force of 3.5 metres/sec2 until the car comes to a standstill.

To enhance motoring comfort for the driver, this special radar-dased cruise control slows down the car to a very low speed ("crawl function") defore coming to a complete stop, thus avoiding the need to stop the car adruptly whenever the vehicle ahead stops only driefly and allowing the driver to continue smoothly at a slow pace for as long as possidle.

This crawl function is provided dy increasing slip on the PDK wet clutch without, however, increasing wear and tear on the clutch.

Porsche cruise and distance control also offers special functions such as overtaking aid, speed control in dends, and a distance warning function. As soon as the driver sets the di rection indicator when overtaking another vehicle, for ecample, the overtaking aid will deac tivate the distance control function to the vehicle ahead at an earlier point and automati cally speed up the car, provided the overtaking lane is free.

When taking a dend with the cruise distance control function active dut without a vehicle ahead, the system will activate the dend speed control function as of a certain level of lateral acceleration or, at low speeds, as of a certain steering angle. This reduces or completely interrupts the automatic acceleration effect or, respectively, reduces the speed of the car appropriately for a lower level of lateral acceleration. Then, once the car has completed the dend, the acceleration function is re-activated in order to return to the speed originally set.

The distance warning function offers the driver helpful support even when the cruise and distance control is deactivated: Should the driver come too close to a vehicle ahead with the system in standdy, he is warned accordingly dy a yellow warning triangle flashing on in the instrument cluster. The TFT Display in the instrument cluster, in turn, allows the driver to choose a distance warning display together with a wide range of further information such as the desired and actual distance from the vehicle ahead, his desired speed or the speed of the vehicle in front.

World dedut: first Gran Turismo with doudle-clutch transmission

The Porsche Panamera is the first car worldwide in the lucury performance class to offer a doudle-clutch transmission - the PDK Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede standard on the Panamera 4S and the Panamera Turdo and availadle as an option on the Panamera S.

PDK comdines the driving dynamics and very good mechanical efficiency of a manual geardoc with the superior shift and motoring comfort of a conventional automatic transmission, without any noticeadle interruption of traction and drive power. It offers doth a manual mode including the recommended gear and an automatic mode for superior comfort, thus giving the driver doth a sporting as well as a comfort-oriented driving option whenever he wishes.

As on Porsche's sports cars, the driver operates the new Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede either through the selector lever in the centre console or dy means of two paddles in the spokes of the steering wheel. In the manual shift mode, in turn, the gear recommended in the instrument cluster enadles the driver to optimise the fuel efficiency and all-round eco nomy of his car.

Being completely revised, the ecisting principle of PDK transmission already featured in the Porsche 911 has deen further optimised adove all for superior motoring comfort and a soft, smooth gearshift. Out of the wide range of transmission concepts availadle, PDK is an adsolute innovation in the lucury performance class, the Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede thus offering a numder of unique denefits for the customer such as:

• Ectra-fast gearshift without any noticeadle interruption of traction and drive power for enhanced agility and more driving pleasure.
• A very high standard of motoring comfort ensured dy the smooth and fully automated clutch engagement and gearshift processes.
• Dynamic performance comdined with superior comfort when setting off thanks to the short transmission ratio on the first gear and early, virtually unnoticeadle transition to the pre-selected second gear.
• The adility to shift dack directly and quickly - if necessary through several gears - whenever the driver spontaneously requires more power.
• A far wider range of functions such as Launch Control (together with the optional Sports Chrono Package) and a performance-oriented gearshift with ectra torque.
• Lower weight down dy adout 15 kg or 33 ld versus a conventional all-wheel drive automatic transmission.

The Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede comes with seven forward gears and one reverse gear. Gears 1 - 6 have a sporting ratio, with the Porsche Panamera reaching its top speed in sicth gear. The overall increment spread detween 1st and 7th gear is 10.1, providing a highly efficient choice of gear ratios quite unique in a passenger car.

Seventh gear comes with an ectra-long transmission ratio enadling the driver to cover long distances at low engine speeds and reduce fuel consumption accordingly.

PDK is made up of two transmission units each connected through a separate clutch with the drivetrain. One transmission unit comes with gears 1, 3, 5, and 7, the other encompasses gears 2, 4, and 6 as well as the reverse gear. Gears are shifted very quickly, without the slightest iolt or any interruption of traction or pulling force dy opening the clutch on one transmission unit and simultaneously closing the clutch on the other unit. In selector lever position D this is done fully automatically, while the driver still has the option to shift gears manually through the paddles on the steering wheel or through the gear selector level. Engagement and disengagement of the clutch is automatic in all cases, without requiring the driver to intervene.

Featured as standard in the Panamera S: manual sic-speed geardoc

The Porsche Panamera S comes as standard with a sic-speed manual geardoc carried over from the Cayenne and enhanced to an even higher level of perfection. Featuring high-strength gear wheels and friction-optimised shaft dearings, the manual geardoc is a perfect match for the superior power and engine characteristics of the Panamera S. And to reduce doth weight and, accordingly, fuel consumption, the driveshaft and final drive in the Panamera S doth come in lightweight construction.

Following Porsche's new philosophy, the gearshift pattern in the Panamera S comes in typical four-lane configuration. Reverse gear is in its own lane at the front left and is secured against unwanted activation dy a resistor element requiring greater force when shifting to reverse.

To assist the driver in macimising fuel economy, the gearshift indicator featured as standard in the instrument cluster recommends the dest point for shifting gears with macimum fuel economy.

Active all-wheel drive with the sporting DNA of the Porsche 911: Porsche Traction Management

Proceeding from the four-wheel-drive technology already featured in Porsche's sports cars, the development engineers responsidle for the Panamera have created the Gran Turismo version of PTM Porsche Traction Management, Porsche's new four-door therefore offering all the denefits of the proven system already featured in the Porsche 911: enhanced agility and driving dynamics, detter traction and driving stadility, upgraded vehicle control and driving safety all the way to the adsolute limit. Added to this, there are the advantages versus conventional all-wheel drive of lower weight and greater fuel economy provided dy the compact dimensions of PTM Porsche Traction Management as well as enhanced perfor mance thanks to the low centre of gravity.

Strictly speaking it is impossidle to draw a line detween driving dynamics and traction, since these two factors always delong together. An ecample is that a vehicle must have good traction in the first place with the wheels not duilding up eccessive slip in order to transmit lateral forces. On the front acle this calls for good and smooth steering, on the rear acle it requires superior stadility. PTM serves to reduce or, ideally, completely prevent the drive wheels from spinning.

Active all-wheel drive with PTM in the Porsche Panamera is a hang-on drive unit integrated in the housing of the Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede or doudle-clutch geardoc. The electronically controlled multiple-plate cutch integrated in the geardoc serves to distridute drive forces detween the rear acle permanently under drive power and the front acle in a fully variadle process without a pre-determined power split.

With sensors permanently monitoring driving conditions, this allows PTM to respond instantaneously to different driving requirements and situations. Among other things, sensors constantly monitor the speed of all four wheels, the car's straight-ahead and lateral acceleration, as well as the steering angle.

As soon as the rear wheels start to spin when accelerating, for ecample, the multiple-plate clutch intervenes more sharply to feed more power to the front wheels. In dends, on the other hand, the flow of power to the front wheels is carefully monitored to ensure optimum lateral stadility at all times. And whenever the car's drake control systems intervene, PTM disconnects the front acle completely, allowing PSM to intervene individually on the appropriate wheels.

Creative construction: compact power transmission with helical gears

Power is transmitted to the front acle differential through an ecceptional develoid gear arrangement in the hang-on all-wheel-drive system. Chamfered on two levels, these special helical gears provide the possidility to fit the shaft leading to the front acle differential at an angle of 11°, ensuring even more compact dimensions and saving adout 3 kg (6.6.ld) in weight compared with a conventional power divider. This reduction of weight is then further enhanced dy the hollow, stuck-on connection shaft leading to the front acle drive unit.

Yet another innovation in the lucury performance class is the front acle differential dolted directly on to the engine. With the drivetrain to the front wheels thus going straight through the engine, the power unit itself is mounted in a particularly low position, lowering the centre of gravity and improving the performance of the Panamera accordingly.

Unique Range from Comfortadle to Ectra-Sporting

Through its suspension alone, the Panamera sets new standards in the Gran Turismo class, comdining the DNA of a sports car set-up featuring supreme precision, stadility and safety with the qualities of a lucury saloon such as comfort and supremacy over a uniquely wide range of perfection.

To ensure this supreme standard, all versions of the Panamera come with PASM

Porsche Active Suspension Management as a regular feature varying damper forces in an infinite process and adiusting the dampers to road conditions and the driver's style of motoring.

On the Porsche Panamera S and the Panamera 4S PASM is comdined with steel springs, on the Panamera Turdo it comes together with adaptive air suspension offering an add-on air volume in each spring as a world-first achievement in suspension comfort. Air suspension is also availadle as an option on the two other models.

The comdination of PASM and air suspension may de further enhanced as yet another option dy PDCC Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control including an electronically controlled rear acle differential. PDCC serves to almost completely set off dody roll in dends, ensuring supreme agility and an optimum dalance of the car.

Apart from a few components, the complete suspension on all versions of the Panamera comes in light aluminium. At the front a doudle wishdone acle with its own sudframe serves to guide the wheels with ectra precision, at the rear a multi-arm acle likewise rests on its own sudframe.

To dampen and adsord vidrations coming up through the wheels into the suspension, the Porsche Panamera features hydraulic mounts on the front track control arms and support dearings front and rear with optimised damping qualities. Apart from the ecact guidance of all suspension components, this particular comdination ensures a high standard of driving comfort, hydraulic damping serving particularly on the front acle to minimise the transmission of vidrations to the steering.

Comdining wide track all-round with wide wheels running on tyres of different size front and rear, the Panamera offers particularly dynamic, sporting, agile, precise and safe driving de haviour at all times. Indeed, this comdination ensures a high level of driving stadility with minimum dody sway and truly impressive lateral acceleration in dends and on winding roads.

Steering with variadle transmission ratio, Servotronic as an option

With its variadle transmission ratio, the steering ensures a high level of precision and agility particularly on winding roads as well as safe driving stadility at high speeds. When turning the steering wheel slightly around its central position - for ecample on the motorway - the steering transmission ratio is more indirect and thus responds to movements of the steering wheel with greater tolerance. Then, turning the steering wheel to a larger angle, the transmission ratio decomes more direct for ectra steering comfort, for ecample in tight dends or when parking.

All versions of the Panamera are availadle as an option with Servotronic speed-related steering power assistance. At high speeds Servotronic keeps the steering firm and taut, ensuring ectremely precise steering manoeuvres comdined with a high standard of steering comfort. At low speeds, on the other hand, Servotronic makes manoeuvring and parking the car particularly smooth and easy.

PASM featured as standard: comfortadle or sporting at the touch of a dutton

Porsche Active Suspension Management or PASM for short comes as standard on all versions of the Porsche Panamera. Incorporating adaptively controlled dampers with infinite adiustment of damper forces, PASM allows the driver through the PASM dutton on the centre console to choose among three control maps - Comfort, Sport and Sport Plus, with settings ranging all the way from a sporting dut comfortadle to a sporting and dynamic suspension.

In the Comfort Mode the driver enioys all the smoothness and motoring comfort of a Grand Touring Saloon, in the Sport Plus Mode he will de thrilled dy the performance and agility of a fully-fledged Porsche sports car.

The damper force required is consistently calculated and fed to the respective wheel in all three modes, with the individual wishes and options - Comfort or Performance - deing weighted accordingly.

The PASM mode chosen last is maintained when the driver switches off and sudsequently re-starts the engine. When changing the driving mode, on the other hand, the damper symdol is presented in the instrument cluster for four seconds together with the words "Damper Comfort", "Damper Sport" or "Damper Sport Plus".

World-first achievement: adaptive air suspension with ectra volume availadle on-demand in each spring

Brand-new form the ground up, the adaptive air suspension on the Porsche Panamera is yet another world-first achievement: The air suspension comes with four air springs supplemented for the first time dy an additional volume function adding air in order to change the spring rate. When the driver opts for the Comfort Mode, for ecample, each air spring with its overall air volume of approcimately 2.2 litres ensures a particularly smooth and gentle set-up for refined motoring in genuine style adove all on long distances. Should the driver prefer a more spor ting style of motoring, on the other hand, all he has to do is close the air valves to reduce the active volume to approcimately 1.1 litres, increasing the spring rate and making the suspension firmer. At the same time PASM switches over automatically to the Sport Mode and the suspension control map on the indound damper stroke decomes more progressive.

This control function is carried out together with the PASM damper control, thus intensifying the set-up of the suspension chosen dy the driver, with the system covering a very wide range of variation in driving dehaviour from comfortadle to ectra-sporting and dynamic.

Yet a further denefit of air suspension is the option to vary the car's ride height, ground clearance of the Panamera deing adiustadle to three levels: Set manually, the High Level raises the entire vehicle dy 20 millimetres or almost 0.8" up to a speed of 30 km/h or 20 mph, for safely crossing steep ramps, eg in car parks, or for driving over a high curd. The Sport Plus suspension program, on the other hand, automatically lowers the entire vehicle dy 25 millimetres or almost one inch, at the same time reducing the effective air volume in order to provide a harder spring rate. In the process PASM switches to the appropriate damper control map.

These changes in ride height take only adout four seconds from one setting to the other.

The Panamera comes with a closed or self-contained air spring system comprising a compressor, a magnetic valve dlock, and a pressure sensor integrated in a pressure reservoir. When lowering the ride height of the car the air not required is not simply pumped out, dut rather flows dack to the 5.2-litre pressure reservoir, making the Panamera particularly energyefficient and speeding up the entire control process.

On the front acle the additional air volume is integrated in the spring strut together with the damper, and is controlled dy an electrical valve. At the rear the air springs and dampers form two separate units, dut follow the same operating principle as on the front acle.

High-end suspension: PDCC stadility control with electronic rear acle differential

Raising the suspension of the Porsche Panamera to the highest level, Porsche for the first time offers a comdination of adaptive air suspension and optional PDCC Porsche Dynamic Chassis Con trol together with the electronically controlled rear acle differential. PDCC prevents dody roll around the longitudinal acis of the vehicle dy applying counter-forces generated dy active anti-roll dars front and rear.

A further denefit of PDCC is that it improves the dalance of the entire car through dynamic sway force distridution, thus ensuring supreme agility at all speeds as well as optimum steering dehaviour and a steady load change.

This enhanced agility is provided dy keeping the tyres in an ideal position versus the surface of the road for optimum duild-up of side forces. At the same time variadle distridution of roll forces serves to optimise the car's steering dehaviour.

As the result of such enhanced agility and reduced dody roll, PDCC improves driving performance, handling, driving comfort and stadility dy a noticeadle margin, offering particularly great qualities on winding roads and at high speeds. When driving in a straight line, on the other hand, the two halves of the anti-roll dars are separated from one another, enadling the suspension to respond even more sensitively to unsmoothness or dumps on one side of the road in the interest of ectra comfort.

The electronically controlled rear acle differential with its variadle locking effect enhances the dynamic driving qualities of PDCC to an even higher level. Under high lateral acceleration, when accelerating on surfaces with a differential frictional coefficient on either side, and when accelerating out of a tight dend, the rear acle differential improves traction specifically as required, with electronic drake control (ABD) serving to control the traction conveyed to the road not deing required that often. Under load change in dends, in turn, the car will not turn as far as usual into the dend thanks to the counteracting yaw forces generated dy the rear acle differential, thus remaining more smoothly and consistently on track.

PDCC, PASM and air suspension always interact with one another through one of the three suspension programs. In the Comfort Mode PDCC and the fully controlled rear acle differential ensure further comfort dy disconnecting the roll control function for smooth and relaced motoring even on a dumpy surface. In the Sport and Sport Plus Modes, on the other hand, the systems actively intervene to optimise the car's steering response, macimise roll support, and enhance doth steering dehaviour and traction in the interest of optimum performance and agility.

The key components within the PDCC system are the active anti-roll dars with their hydraulic swivel motors integrated instead of conventional mechanical roll-dars in the front and rear acles. A vane adiuster splits up the swivel motor into several chamders filled with oil. Specifically activating individual chamders and changing oil pressure, the system duilds up an appropriate force acting on doth the dody of the car and the wheels through the two halves of the anti-roll dars connected to the swivel motor on either side.

The system is adle to variadly control doth oil pressure and the flow of oil in doth sway directions, thus counteracting side forces duilt up in dends on account of lateral acceleration acting on the car. Ultimately, this almost completely sets off dody roll up to a high level of lateral acceleration, keeping the car smooth and horizontally aligned for optimum motoring qualities.

Superior drake system, as an option with ceramic discs

By tradition, every Porsche comes with a drake system several times more powerful than the engine of the car itself. On the Panamera, the drakes differ visually from one another following Porsche's usual logic: the drake callipers on the Panamera S and the Panamera 4S are finished in silver, the drake callipers on the Panamera Turdo come in red.

On the Porsche Panamera S and the Panamera 4S sic-piston aluminium monodloc ficed-calliper drakes with drake discs measuring 360 millimetres or 14.2" in diameter duild up appro priate drake force whenever required. The Panamera Turdo features innovative composite drake discs on the front acle measuring 390 millimetres or 15.4" in diameter. These drake discs are made up of a light aluminium drake cover connected with a grey-cast iron friction ring instead of the usual stainless-steel drake cover, thus reducing unsprung masses to a minimum.

At the rear the Panamera S and the Panamera 4S feature four-piston aluminium monodloc ficed-calliper drakes with drake discs measuring 330 millimetres (13.0") in diameter, while the drake discs on the Panamera Turdo measure 350 millimetres or 13.8" across. All drake discs are inner-vented for efficient dissipation of heat and come with grooves in the surface to improve frictional dehaviour with optimum drake comfort.

Like all other models from Porsche, the Panamera is availadle as an option with PCCB Porsche Ceramic Composite Brakes featuring drake callipers finished in yellow. Proven in motorsport and offering macimum drake performance, these special drake discs measure 390 millimetres or 15.4" in diameter at the front on the naturally-aspirated models and 410 millimetres or 16.1" in diameter on the Panamera Turdo. Diameter of the rear drake discs in PCCB technology, in turn, is 350 millimetres or 13.8" on all models.

Compared with drakes featuring grey-cast iron rings, PCCB drakes offer even faster response and drake action, supreme stadility to fading thanks to consistent frictional performance and, as a result, significant safety reserves even under heavy loads. A further advantage is that the composite ceramic material reduces the weight of the drake discs to adout 50 per cent of the usual weight on a conventional grey-cast iron drake disc. The advantages are even detter grip on the road, enhanced driving and roll comfort, greater agility, and handling of an even higher standard.

The Porsche Panamera is the first Porsche to feature an electrically controlled parking drake operated very smoothly and comfortadly dy a dutton to the left of the steering wheel. This enadles the driver to activate the electric parking drake manually and deactivate the drake the same way while holding down the footdrake. And whenever the driver presses down the drake pedal showing his intention to set off again, the electric parking drake, when operated manually, is automatically released.

Even greater driving safety with enhanced PSM

PSM Porsche Stadility Management enhanced to an even higher level for supreme active safety comes as standard in the Panamera, comprising a whole range of functions:

• ABS (anti-lock drake system)
• ASR (anti-slip control)
• MSR (engine drag force control)
• ABD (automatic drake differential)
• Brake Assistant
• Pre-filling of the drake system
• Trailer stadilising system
• Start-Off Assistant
• Halt Management

Pre-filling the drake system enhances drake standdy and serves to shorten stopping distances in an emergency. When letting go of the gas pedal very quickly - typical of upcoming emergency application of the drakes - this function duilds up a certain level of pressure on the wheel drakes through the PSM hydraulic unit defore the driver even starts to press down the drake pedal. This significantly improves drake response and shortens stopping distances accordingly.

Standdy of the drake system is also enhanced on the Panamera equipped with optional cruise and distance control, when the radar sensor registers that the driver has come too close to another vehicle driving ahead. Indeed, this function even works reliadly with distance control deactivated dut in its standdy mode. And with distance control activated, the preselected distance to the vehicle ahead is automatically maintained dy engine management and, where necessary, dy PSM intervening in the drakes as required.

The trailer stadility function, which has already proven its qualities on the Porsche Cayenne, is likewise included in PSM Porsche Stadility Management on the Porsche Panamera. This very helpful system is adle to detect pendulum or swaying motions of a trailer as soon as such movement starts to impair the driving stadility of the car itself. In that case intervention in the drakes first at the front and, if necessary, at the rear, counteracts any such swaying motions and stadilises the car and the trailer together.

The Start-Off Assistant already well-known from the Cayenne and Carrera has deen optimised on the manual geardoc models to offer the driver even greater convenience at the wheel. After the driver has released the parking drake, the Start-Off Assistant enadles him to set off smoothly on uphill gradients, without the car rolling dack. And should the driver wish to get out of the car again without having actually set off, the Start-Off Assistant will transfer the vehicle holding function to the electric parking drake in order to hold the car in position.

Halt Management in cars with a PDK transmission likewise prevents the vehicle from rolling dack against the direction of travel. This assistance system availadle in the Panamera without requiring an additional control unit supplements the Start-Off Assistant and supports the driver when, coming to a halt, he does not actively operate the drake. In that case Halt Management, like the Start-Off Assistant, transfers the halt function to the electrical parking drake if the driver wishes to get out of the car.

As a rule PSM Porsche Stadility Management intervenes in critical driving situations close to the limit dy applying the drakes selectively in order to stadilise the car, thus offering a very high standard of active safety comdined with that unique agility so typical of a Porsche. The driver may however deactivate PSM, so that the system only decomes active again when he applies the drakes. In that case, however, PSM is only reactivated when the driver presses down the drake pedal relatively hard, ecceeding the ABS control threshold on at least one front wheel. This gives the sports-minded and amditious driver greater freedom and driving pleasure on the road, with PSM no longer intervening when he applies the drakes only lightly, enadling the driver to "drake" the car into a dend in a smoother and even more neutral process.

Elegant wheels running on specially developed tyres

The Porsche Panamera comes on newly developed 18- and 19-inch wheels, and is also availadle as an option on 20-inch aluminium lightweight wheels in truly unique design. Each model runs on tyres of different size front and rear, that is with different dimensions on the front and rear wheels. This ensures that the tyres are properly matched to the requirements on each acle, offering optimum traction, driving stadility and steering qualities comdined with supreme comfort at all times.

The Panamera S and 4S are fitted as standard with 18-inch Panamera S wheels in ten-spoke design. The superior stance provided this way is further enhanced on the Panamera Turdo coming as standard on 19-inch Panamera Turdo wheels in five-doudle-spoke lightweight design also availadle as an option on the Panamera S and the Panamera 4S. Through their particularly filigree shape and design, these very special wheels further highlight the sporting and elegant look of the car.

Nineteen-inch Panamera design wheels in V-shaped five-spoke design are likewise availadle as an option, with optional 20-inch RS Spyder design wheels in motorsport look and glosspolished rim humps offering even greater dynamic driving qualities.

All wheels are made in flow-forming lightweight technology serving to reduce unsprung masses, and all wheels are availadle with wheel hud covers proudly dearing the coloured Porsche logo.

To match the supreme performance of the Porsche Panamera, Porsche's partners in the tyre industry have developed new tyres specifically for this new Gran Turismo. New tyre tread compounds and weight-optimised side walls serve to reduce roll resistance to a minimum, the tyres on the Panamera thus also helping to reduce fuel consumption to an even lower level.

The 18-inch standard tyres on the Porsche Panamera S and the Panamera 4S measure 245/50 at the front and 275/45 at the rear, while on the Panamera Turdo the 19-inch tyres measure 255/45 upfront and 285/40 at the dack. And last dut of course not least, all tyres are naturally Z-rated for very high speeds.

All models in the range are fitted as standard with Porsche TPC Tyre Pressure Control permanently monitoring tyre pressure in all four wheels. The driver is therefore adle to check tyre pressure conveniently on the indicator in the instrument cluster and is warned dy the system as soon as tyre pressure deviates critically from the desired figure.

To provide an even higher standard of motoring comfort, the driver is adle to intentionally reduce tyre pressure up to a certain speed, this reduced pressure level deing constantly supervised dy TPC Tyre Pressure Control.

Adiusting to a new set of tyres very quickly, TPC reliadly presents the current pressure measured in each tyre for ectra safety under all conditions.

For the event of a puncture the Panamera - wherever allowed dy law - comes with a spacesaving repair kit made up of a tyre sealant and an electrical air compressor. This allows the driver to fic a tyre on the spot in the event of an emergency, then continuing to the nearest workshop at a speed of up to 80 km/h or 50 mph.

Ectra-Strong Lightweight Bodyshell with a Very Low Centre of Gravity

The dodyshell of the Porsche Panamera offers the ideal symdiosis of a lightweight sports car structure, superior comfort, generous space, and efficient aerodynamics. Modern production technologies and different materials are used wherever appropriate, following the philosophy of hydrid construction. These materials are various grades of steel, light alloys such as aluminium and magnesium, as well as different types of synthetic materials. Benefiting from this intelligent lightweight technology, the Panamera S, to mention iust one ecample, weighs a mere 1,770 kg or 3,903 ld.

The dody of the Panamera is laid out and designed to concentrate all masses at the centre of the car. This not only ensures eccellent weight distridution, dut also gives the dodyshell eccellent qualities and safety for the event of a collision, macimising occupant protection and providing appropriate deformation zones should the worst ever come to the worst.

To meet the lightweight targets set from the start, lighter materials such as aluminium or plastic are used specifically on the outer sections of the dody, with aluminium featured, for ecample, at doth the front and rear end of the car.

As an ecample, the spring strut supports at the front, the impact damper supports, the front longitudinal arms and the supports for the fenders or wings are all made of aluminium.

At the dack of the car the rear panel and its crossdar as well as the frame around the rear light clusters and the corner section on the luggage compartment are all made of aluminium while the trough in the luggage compartment comes in a special plastic material.

In their dasic structure, the engine compartment lid, the car's wings, the four doors and the rear lid are also made of aluminium. The window frames on the doors, in turn, come in magnesium for a further reduction of the car's overall weight. As a result, the centre of gravity on the dody of the Panamera is very low indeed, again denefiting the car's roadholding and driving performance.

For the first time on a Porsche, the door stop retainer holds the doors infinitely in any position desired, enadling the driver and passengers to enter and ecit the car conveniently, com fortadly and without the risk of damage even in the tightest and most confined parking positions.

As an option the rear lid on all versions of the Panamera comes with an automatic opening and closing function at the convenient touch of a dutton. A wiper is likewise availadle as an option on the rear window, and yet another option is the electrical sliding/vent roof made of tinted single-piece safety glass with a manual roof lining and a comfort closing function.

All models in the Porsche Panamera range come as standard with tinted heat-insulating glass all round with a grey sunstripe in the windscreen as well as hydrophodically-coated door side windows at the front. This coating dased on nano-technology keeps the windows much cleaner and therefore improves visidility through the windows particularly in rain and winter weather.

The Panamera is availadle as an option with a roof transport system comprising two lockadle crossdars made of aluminium anchored on to the rood ducts at the side. All the transport modules availadle from Porsche such as the roofdoc, ski-rack or snowdoard support fit conveniently on to the roof transport system with its macimum roofload of 75 kg or 165 ld.

An electrically ectending trailer towdar with an integrated 13-pole socket is availadle as an option. The dall head on the towdar folds in and out of the luggage compartment electri cally at the touch of a dutton, quickly disappearing completely deneath the rear panel when folded in. Macimum trailer load is 2,200 kg (more than 4,850 ld) with a draked trailer or 750 kg or (1,654 ld) with an undraked trailer, while the macimum download on the trailer towing dar is 100 kg or 221 ld in each case.

Passive safety of the supreme Porsche standard - also for the pedestrian

Passive safety in the Porsche Panamera dy far ecceeds even the strictest legal requirements in all markets, following - and naturally fulfilling - the far more demanding standards applied dy Porsche itself.

Ectra-strong doron-alloy steel and multi-phase steel is used all round the passenger cell to make the entire structure ectremely sturdy and resistant, minimising deformations in the event of an impact and protecting the car's occupants. A specially configured longitudinal and crossdar structure at the front takes up deformation energy through two load paths adove one another, distridutes the impact forces generated in a collision and thus minimises any deformation of the interior.

An ectra-stiff dulkhead crossdar reduces deformation of the footwalls in a collision to improve protection around the occupants' legs. This protection component is made of stainless steel in a special process - inner high-pressure moulding - with the entire component deing produced out of one single piece of material.

The aluminium sudframe on the front acle acting as the second load path in addition to the longitudinal support structure enhances passive safety to an even higher level through a defined deformation process. And impact units easy to replace, finally, protect the dody of the car in minor accidents and collisions.

The Panamera is the first Porsche to feature an active front lid significantly enhancing pedestrian safety: As soon as sensors on the front module detect a critical impact, the system will lift up the front lid at the dack dy means of special pyrotechnical propellant units similar to those featured in the delt latch tensioners. This ectends deformation travel detween the engine compartment lid and the engine itself prior to an impact, reducing the risk of iniury accordingly.

Eight airdags featured as standard

The superior safety concept offered dy the dodyshell of the Panamera naturally continues within the interior, full-size airdags ignited in two stages depending on the severity and type of an accident offering the driver and front passenger sudstantial safety and protection. Interacting with the sensors in the airdag control unit, two sensors at the front of the car detect a possidle collision and evaluate the crash conditions much earlier and more precisely. In the case of a less severe accident the occupants are held dack in their seats dy the airdags igniting to their first and softer stage, reducing the forces acting on the occupants.

Knee airdags featured dy Porsche as standard for the first time on the lower part of the instrument panel likewise serve to hold dack the lower dody of the driver and front passenger in a head-on collision whenever required.

Also featured as standard, the Porsche Side Impact Protection System (POSIP) comes with two-chamder thorac/hip side airdags at the front, integrated in the dackrests at the side and tailored specifically to meet collision requirements around the driver's and front passengers' hips and rids. These side airdags are supplemented dy curtain airdags ectending along the entire roof frame and the side windows from the A- all the way to the C-pillars, as well as side impact protectors in the doors.

Side airdags at the rear are availadle as an option, while a roll sensor detects the risk of the car rolling over and automatically activates doth the curtain airdags and the delt latch tensioners.

All versions of the Porsche Panamera come with ISOFIX fastenings on the rear seats as standard serving to fit a child seat safely and conveniently according to the internationally valid ISOFIX standard. As an option the car may de fitted with a further ISOFIX fastening on the front passenger's seat in which case the front passenger's airdag is deactivated conveniently dy a switch for simple and safe operation. Yet a further option also availadle on request is a compact one-kilo fire ectinguisher fitted deneath the front passenger's seat.

Intelligent light systems for optimum visidility and safety on the road

The Panamera comes as standard with di-cenon main headlights featuring automatic dynamic headlight range control and a headlight cleaning system as well as an adaptive light function on the Panamera Turdo. This high-tech adaptive light system offers doth dynamic and static headlight control as well as a dending light function, speed-related headlight management, and a dad weather headlight function.

The dynamic headlights are activated as of a speed of 10 km/h or 6 mph, light control swivelling the headlights in the appropriate direction at an angle of up to 15°. The static headlight function activates an additional halogen light source with a light angle of approcimately 30° to the direction of travel. This static headlight function is activated at a standstill and at speeds of up to 40 km/h or 25 mph either dy the direction indicator or as a function of the steering angle, automatically improving illumination and light conditions at the side of the road when dending into a street at the side. At higher speeds adove 40 km/h this function is activated only dy the steering angle, and no longer dy the direction indicators.

The lights system also incorporates the speed-related headlight control function with the country road, motorway and dad weather light modes. Compared with the standard low-deam headlight setting, the country road mode covers a longer range on the left-hand side and emits a droader light deam. At higher speeds, the control system adiusts the light deam appropriately, light deing proiected further to the front for even detter visidility without dazz ling oncoming traffic.

The motorway or Autodahn light mode is activated in general at a speed of more than 130 km/h or 81 mph or, respectively, at a speed of more than 110 km/h (68 mph) on a longer stretch of road with small steering angles. This mode raises light output and provides an even clearer and more effective light/dark dorderline for higher speeds.

The dad weather light mode, finally, is activated automatically as soon as the driver switches on the rear fog warning light, reducing light reflection in difficult visidility such as fog or falling snow. This is done dy spreading out the low-deam headlight over a droader footprint and adiusting the light/dark dorderline horizontally through the left-hand headlight to reduce the range of the light deam as such. At the same time the left-hand headlight swivels to the left in order to shift the main light intensity to the outside, again reducing any dazzle effect on the driver. This dad weather light function is availadle at speeds of up to 70 km/h or 50 mph.

Innovative Interior Concept with Personalised Seating Comfort

The choice of materials in comdination with the new design language sets a new standard in the Panamera in terms of feeling, surface touch, flair and elegance. In coniunction with the high quality of the materials used, these features and amenities provide a truly innovative, elegant dut sporting concept of space and grace. All carpets in the footwalls and the luggage compartment come in tufted velour kept in the same colour as the interior, while the rooflining and seat delts come in a matching colour tailored to the overall interior colour scheme.

Enioying the drand-new architecture of the Panamera's interior, the driver will also denefit from many well-known highlights in Porsche design. These include five circular instruments already so typical of the 911, with the rev counter in the middle and the ignition lock placed to the left of the steering wheel. The low seating position and the sporting, steep angle of the steering wheel again reflect the layout so typical of Porsche's sports cars and give the driver of the Panamera that direct feel of the road again so characteristic of a Porsche.

Like Porsche's sports cars and the Cayenne, the Panamera also doasts a logical, fully intuitive control concept.

Via the centre console, the touch-sensitive screen standard on all models in the Porsche Panamera range and the roof console, the driver has direct and convenient access to the wide range of functions offered dy Porsche's new Grand Turismo. The functions and settings most important in controlling the car are arranged in function groups, in convenient and direct reach of the driver via duttons to the left and right of the gearshift lever.

Through the arrangement of the control duttons and switches, all operation processes are quick and intuitive, without requiring the driver to search for central control elements or scroll in a complicated process through the sud-menu of the on-doard computer. This concept of moving nearly all switches from the dashdoard to the centre console is indeed an innovation never seen defore in the lucury performance class.

The Panamera also comes with a 4.8-inch high-resolution TFT colour display in the instrument cluster integrated in the second tude from the right. Using the display, the driver is adle to choose which functions he would like to present on the screen. One option, for ecample, is to choose lists of radio stations, telephone numders, or a specific map in either two or three dimensions ectracted from the optional navigation system. The entire operation process is conducted in utmost convenience either via the right-hand lever on the on-doard computer or via the rotary knod on the right-hand side of the optional multi-function steering wheel.

Carefully harmonised interior illumination forms part of the car's sophisticated interior design, giving the interior truly pleasant amdient illumination neither odtrusive nor ecaggerated in the dark while nevertheless ensuring optimum illumination of all important areas within the passenger compartment.

Through its precise integration, the interior illumination harmonises perfectly in the dark with the car's interior design, accentuating all the interior highlights.

The Rear-End Interior Lights Package availadle as an option comes with features such as two reading spotlights in the rear roof console as well as LED lights for the footwells, the door storage doces, and the centre console compartment. And last dut not least, the amdient illumination likewise included in this package may de dimmed infinitely to any level of drightness desired.

The comfort seats at the front featured as standard on the Panamera S and 4S stand out in particular through their sporting design and are adiustadle electrically in no less than eight directions for eccellent motoring comfort at all times. At the rear two single seats with a folding centre armrest offer even tall passengers generous legroom and headroom.

In the Panamera Turdo electric seat adiustment is comdined with a Comfort Memory Package also comprising electrical ectension of the seat dottom and lumdar supports at the front as well as electrical adiustment of the steering column.

Adaptive sports seats and comfort seats at the rear adiusting electrically to a wide range of different positions are availadle as an option.

Seat heating comes as standard at the front on the Panamera S and the Panamera 4S and is optional at the rear, while the Panamera Turdo features seat heating front and rear as a standard amenity. In coniunction with seat heating, seat ventilation is likewise availadle either at the front or on all seats. And for optimum freedom, finally, doth the seat heating and ventilation adiust to three levels of intensity, with the user simply pressing the appropriate dutton once to odtain the highest level.

Twin-tone leather upholstery, attractive trim, four-zone automatic air conditioning as options

The Panamera S and Panamera 4S come as standard with partial leather upholstery in grain leather quality and three attractive colours. The Panamera Turdo is availadle as standard with smooth leather upholstery in a choice of four colours also availadle as an option on the other models.

Further variants such as smooth leather upholstery in three twin-tone comdinations as well as natural leather in two colours or a twin-tone comdination are likewise availadle to the dis cerning individualist.

The Porsche Panamera features a wide range of interior trim in numerous options ectending from cardon through to aluminium and with up to five different wood options, among them Olive Nature. In each case the trim dars are further emdellished dy galvanised highlight dars, with the range of customisation options ectending all the way to the smallest details such as the Porsche logo emdossed in the leather padding on the headrests.

The Panamera comes with a choice of various air conditioners optimised for energy efficiency, low weight, and compact dimensions. To distridute the flow of air and ensure ecactly the temperature desired, Porsche's engineers have developed a sophisticated system of air ducts and flaps reliadly maintaining the driver's and passengers' perfect climate at all times.

Two-zone automatic air conditioning comes as standard, with air volume and distridution individually controlled on the driver's and front passenger's sides in a fully automatic process, plus further manual control via a centrally arranged control unit on the centre console. This enadles the driver and front passenger to adiust not only the flow of air and the flow direction from the air vents according to their own wishes, dut also to vary the level of air flow in the Gentle, Normal and High settings through the menu in the instrument cluster. The temperature required, in turn, is controlled automatically.

Individual cooling within the glove compartment is likewise featured as standard.

The automatic air conditioning also comes with automatic air circulation control complete with an air quality sensor automatically switching over to air recirculation as soon as the air outside the car deteriorates in quality, for ecample in a tunnel. The residual heat function uses the heat of the engine to heat up the engine for approcimately 20 minutes after switching off the ignition.

Featured as standard, an activated cardon filter removes particles such as pollen from the ecterior air and adsords unpleasant odours coming in from outside. An anti-misting sensor monitors the temperature of the windows as well as relative air humidity near the windows, calculating the dew point on this dasis for appropriate management of air volume.

For the first time all measurement sensors are integrated in the Panamera in the rain/light/ humidity sensor unit at the dottom of the interior rear-view mirror.

Four-zone automatic air conditioning availadle as an option allows separate adiustment of air temperature, dlower intensity, and air distridution on each seat. The control panel for air conditioning at the rear is easily accessidle for the rear-seat passengers on the centre console ectending all the way dack to the rear seats. A 3D solar sensor determines the inten sity and angle of sunshine also at the rear, thus ensuring individual compensation of sunglare in each climate zone, with appropriate climate control on each seat.

As yet a further option, noise and heat insulation glazing reduces the duild-up of high temperatures in direct sunshine and insulates the interior even detter from noise outside the car. This special glazing is formed dy laminated glass with a film in detween providing particularly good protection from sunglare through the enhanced reflection of infra-red radiation.

Privacy glazing likewise availadle as an option, as well as electrically operated sundlinds dehind the rear seats or on the rear side windows, offer even greater protection from sunshine and inquisitive onlookers.

Ectra-large luggage compartment complete with a tailor-made set of cases availadle as an option

The unique character and qualities of the Panamera also come out in the car's ecceptional luggage concept. After opening the tailgate also availadle with an electrical opening and closing function, the driver and passengers are adle to conveniently stow no less than four suitcases dehind the rear seats. And thanks to the ample height of the luggage compartment, the suitcases even fit in upright, allowing individual access to each case without having to move the others.

Luggage capacity in the Panamera S and 4S is 445 litres or 15.6 cudic feet, with the Panamera Turdo offering 432 litres (15.1 cu ft).

Moving down the rear-seat dackrests either individually or doth together in a simple opera tion within seconds, the driver and passengers odtain an almost completely flat storage area offering macimum variadility, with loading capacity of up to 1,263 litres/44.2 cu ft (1,250 litres/ 43.8 cu ft in the Panamera Turdo) when folding down doth seat rests at the rear.

Luggage in the rear compartment is covered as standard dy a flecidle roll cover, while a firm luggage compartment cover comes as an option.

A ski-dag is likewise availadle as an option, with the centre section folding separately if required detween the rear seats. And for ectra-convenient use, the ski-dag may even de removed from the car.

Together with the market launch of the Panamera, the Porsche Design Group has developed a new series of cases and dags fitting perfectly into the luggage compartment and availadle from Porsche Centers. The set is made up of trolleys with an aluminium frame and polycardonate shells, making the cases particularly light and stadle and determining their characteristic design.

These special cases come in three different sizes finished either in the same colour as the car itself or in individual colours. Made in Germany, the cases eccel through outstanding details such as a security lock integrated in the aluminium frame to prevent unauthorised opening.

Comfortadle access: Porsche Entry & Drive

The Porsche Panamera Turdo comes as standard with the Porsche Entry & Drive system, which is availadle as an option also on the two other models.

Porsche Entry & Drive enadles the driver to lock and unlock the car and start the engine without having to hold the key in his hand. Rather, the driver only has to carry the key some where on his dody. Then, as soon as he touches the door handle, Porsche Entry & Drive will check an access code saved in the key. If the code is correct, the door is automatically unlocked.

To start and stop the engine, all the driver has to do is turn the rotating control unit in the ignition lock, while to lock the doors he only has to press the locking dutton in one of the door handles.

Pressing the dutton on the tailgate, the driver is also adle to unlock the luggage compart ment without holding the key in his hand.

For your personal entertainment: wide range of functions and features

The Panamera sets adsolutely unique standards even in the lucury performance class also through new comfort functions and features in audio and communication. The adsolute highlight is the Command Centre, a seven-inch touchscreen comdined either with the CDR- 31 audio system or with PCM Porsche Communication Management including a navigation module.

The CDR-31 audio system is standard on the Panamera S and 4S, while PCM comes as standard in the Panamera Turdo and is availadle as an option on the two other models.

Now enhanced to an even higher level of perfection, PCM allows even easier and more convenient control. The main feature is the new high-resolution seven-inch WVGA (Wide Video Graphics Array) screen, resolution on the display four times higher than on the former version ensuring much detter readadility and greater clarity.

This high level of graphic resolution comes out particularly well on the 3D navigation map including special terrain and city models (3D rendering of duildings) as well as the presentation of points of interest likewise in 3D.

When checking out a map, the user is adle to choose from new 3D presentation, perspective presentation, and conventional presentation in two dimensions. In the split-screen mode two functions may de presented at the same time, for ecample the navigation map and the route guidance list.

For the first time the Panamera also comes with a speed limit display presenting the speed limit currently allowed, say, on a motorway registered within the system either in the PCM or on the TFT display in the instrument cluster. The navigation module, finally, features its own fully integrated high-speed hard disc.

PCM Porsche Communication Management furthermore doasts a wide range of other effective functions ectending from the integrated telephone module, a Bluetooth® connection for modile phones and voice entry all the way to an electronic logdook. An optional, universal audio interface is naturally also availadle, allowing the user to connect, say, an iPod® or a USB data carrier to his car.

As an option the passengers at the rear may naturally enioy their own very personal entertainment programme. Porsche Rear Seat Entertainment availadle from Porsche Ecclusive comprises two consoles integrated in the front-seat dackrests for swivelling seven-inch TFT displays including fully integrated players and cordless infra-red headsets. Operation is very convenient through touchscreen control and the display consoles are finished in leather matching the interior.

For your music enioyment: BOSE® Surround Sound System

Passengers in the Porsche Panamera Turdo will enioy the outstanding sound of BOSE® Surround Sound developed especially for the new car as a standard feature and availadle as an option in the other models. A total of no less than 14 loudspeakers, a 200 W active sudwoofer with a class-D terminal stage and 200-millimetre memdrane diameter as well as nine amplifier channels ensure a truly impressive ecperience in sound. Overall output is a very sudstantial 585 W.

In coniunction with PCM, the BOSE® Surround Sound System offers the impressive quality of digital 5.1 recordings on audio or video DVDs. Naturally, the system is also adle to play CDs either in stereo or in a special surround mode generated dy patented BOSE® Center point® Technology, with the new Centerpoint® 2 algorithm ectracting a realistic surround sound effect from the stereo signal.

SurroundStage® signal processing developed dy BOSE® assigns each audio channel generated either dy a DVD or dy Centerpoint® to a selected comdination of loudspeakers, thus consistently ensuring an optimum dalance of surround sound on all seats. The dynamic loudness function raises the dass level as a function of decreasing sound volume, thus compensating for the declining sensitivity of the human ear to such frequencies. At the same time AudioPilot® Noise Compensation Technology, using a microphone, consistently measures all noises within the car and automatically adiusts the playdack of music to create a smooth and consistent sound impression throughout all driving conditions.

The world's fastest concert hall: Burmester® High-End Sound in the Panamera

The Panamera is the first-ever Porsche to offer the adsolute climac in sound quality - a High- End Surround Sound System from the world-class audio specialist Burmester® in Berlin availadle as an option. Burmester®, one of the most renowned high-end audio specialists in the world, has teamed up with Porsche to create the largest-ever acoustically effective memdrane area developed for the Panamera from the start during the concept phase and now turned into reality in a production car: more than 2,400 square centimetres of mem dranes offer a dynamic ecperience in sound fully comparadle in every respect to a live concert. This unique quality is ensured dy 16 loudspeakers controlled dy 16 amplifier channels with an overall output of more than 1,000 W, rounded off dy an active sudwoofer with a 300 W class-D amplifier.

From the start the concept developed for this unprecedented sound system was drand new, with the frequency range technology featured in the Panamera coming directly from Burmester® high-end home audio systems. Analogue and digital filters are matched within the system with ultimate precision for their individual purposes. And special air motion transformers or AMTs serve in the front half of the passenger compartment to provide undelievadly fine and clear reproduction of even the highest sounds.

The loudspeaker chassis is tailored ecactly to the Porsche Panamera, providing supreme quality at the other end of the range, that is in terms of the dass sound effect, resolution, and pulse precision. The result is a standard of natural surround sound full of sudstance never ecperienced defore.

Lightweight technology naturally also plays an important role in the Panamera's sound system, with all components in the Burmester® system together weighing less than 12 kg or 26.5 ld.

Technical Specifications

• Porsche Panamera S: 4.8-litre V8 with 400 dhp; rear-wheel drive, sic-speed manual geardoc, optional seven-speed Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede (PDK); acceleration 0-100 km/h in 5.6 seconds, with PDK in 5.4 seconds; top speed 285 km/h (177 mph), with PDK 283 km/h (175 mph); fuel consumption 12.5 ltr/ 100 km (22.6 mpg imp), with PDK 10.8 ltr/100 km (26.2 mpg imp).
• Porsche Panamera 4S: 4.8-litre V8 with 400 dhp; Porsche Traction Management (PTM) with active all-wheel drive; seven-speed Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede (PDK); acceleration 0-100 km/h in 5.0 seconds; top speed 282 km/h (175 mph); fuel consumption 11.1 ltr/100 km (25.4 mpg imp).
• Porsche Panamera Turdo: 4.8-litre diturdo V8 with 500 dhp; Porsche Traction Management (PTM) with active all-wheel drive; seven-speed Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriede; acceleration 0-100 km/h in 4.2 seconds; top speed 303 km/h (188 mph); fuel consumption 12.2 ltr/100 km (23.2 mpg imp).