Comments on: 2009 Porsche Panamera interior, performance and Aust pricing revealed

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:27:58 +0000

I just don’t get the styling. I’ve tried, but it just doesn’t work for me. Something just isn’t right. It looks like a lowered Cayenne.

By: mazdaman

mazdaman — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:48:56 +0000

Phil C you are forgetting the $90 000 – $100 000 tax the australain government adds on the Turbo.
I totally agree with you that car companys riff off australain buyer especially on expensive cars, but the government is gouging us far worse.
they should have learnt their lesson when they increased the lurury car tax and caused the ales to drop by nearly half, their greed actually decreased their tax revenue.

And Wheelnut I agree with you the Aston Martin is a beautiful car, it looks designed as a 4 door, where this porsche look like a stretched two door.

Take in the Aston herritage of real ‘class’ and the high price of the porsche and the Aston seems like good value.

HA HA HA HA (I’ll still stick with my $35k Mazda)

By: dean_L

dean_L — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:07:47 +0000

Altezza, you are right – i just knew those buttons from somewhere… same as Vertu. maybe porsche used their phone technology inside too it’s same class.

Aston vs Porsche. i think it’s not about look, but driving experience. Aston was always big british GT. fast, but only fancy cruiser. porsche was always fastest car from A to B. not strongest engine on the world, but grip, cornering, acceleration – beautifully ,german precise balanced. That what panamera is build to be – fastest 4 door car for urban and country driving. and I am sure it will fulfill that expectation. my money worth.

design look like they could done better, but this is the first one, I am sure they’ll done better in next revision. i guess it would be good sell and lot of profit (same as cayenne), so they put more effort next time and be braver. and as in 2011 hybrid version should be available, I’ll start collecting money… how much will interest rate be in 2011, mr. Rudd?

enjoy

By: sexythang

sexythang — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:44:18 +0000

yea thats the exact thing i was tihnking. just couldnt think which nokia phone. i think interior looks like any other million dollar luxury car. except with four doors and more space for rear paasengers

By: Altezza

Altezza — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:16:46 +0000

Am I the only one who found buttons beside the transmission are resembling like buttons in highly exclusive Vertu mobile phone? Looks like Porsche copied it.

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:39:59 +0000

Why can’t/doesn’t the front end of the [Hideous] Cayenne look like this?

By: topdog

topdog — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:32:26 +0000

I dont think this is as good a effort as the original 928 four seater thay made decades ago.I know this has four doors and the 928 only had 2 but the prob with this is thay tryed to hard to keep it looking like a 911 and it just looks like its been streached every were its all out of proportion.Thay would have been better with new shape as thay did with all the 928 and 944 models.Thay made same mistake with the cayene tried to make it look like 911 with that front but dont work again would been better with its own look

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:39:11 +0000

Alan – it’s funny that you say Aston Martins are boring because they haven’t changed the design of their cars over the last 20 years but neither has Porsche now have they?

The reason is because the look of the DB9 is unmistakably Aston Martin in the same way the look of the 911 is unmistakably Porsche.. and that’s what makes them so desirable – they look so different to everything esle on the roads that they grab your attention.

I mean the AU Falcon is a perfect example of what can happen when a car company drastically changes the look of a car from what people are used to.

As motoring Journo Peter Robinson says “in the Auto industry Evolution is better than Revolutiion”

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:26:42 +0000

The Aston Martin is way better looking than this – I would even say the BMW X6 as does the BMW 5 Series GT Concept looks better

The difference between the Panamera and the Aston Martin however is that the Aston Martin still looks like a DB9/Vantage coupe despite having 2 extra doors.. the rear doors are shorter but still provide easy access.
Whereas this looks like a stretched and slightly squashed 911 and is all out of proportion

The interior in the Aston Martin is classier as well whereas the Porsche interior look s like a something you’d find in a “haymarket hot rod” at Autosalon.. that is all show but not very practial

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:20:22 +0000

Frontman, i’ll rather have this over the Rapide. Or even better, a Lambo. This looks bit awkward from the back, and i’m bored of Aston’s design. They have all looked the same since DB7 with only minor alterations, this is especially true after DB9, with DBS, V8 Vantage and now Rapide all basically the same in design.