Car Advice

Porsche Panamera taking the elevator

By George Skentzos |

In the lead up to the world premiere of the Porsche Panamera at the Shanghai motor show, a select group of journalists were invited to a private unveiling of the new four-door coupe at the Shanghai World Financial Center in China.

The only problem was at 425 metres above ground level, the 94th floor of the world’s third-largest building is also the world’s highest event platform – leading to the dilemma of how to get the car up there.

The Panamera was far too long to drive into the freight elevator and as a result Porsche was forced to create a unique platform specifically for this event which allowed the car to be loaded near-vertically into the elevator.


 
  • Captain Mainwaring

    Judging by how long this has been up without eliciting a comment, it would seem to be a bit of a non-event.
    Sorry I was the one to have to start it.

  • Biggles

    Captain, I thought it was interesting, but because it doesn’t involve some kind of holden/ford/toyota bunfight I don’t think anyone else did.

  • trippyfoo

    That is quite a sight..LOL …
    I can imagine the logistics … and the pressure to make sure the car got through unscathed…

    For sale… Low km demonstration model.. some scuff and dint marks but can be buffed out..
    One of a kind .. only one to have been transported up an elevator by several hundred metres.

  • crouchy

    Is there any chance that the guy who organised the reveal also designed that rear end?

    Sensing a theme of half-doing things… thats all….

  • Yanzo

    haha that’s cool. who needs engineers…

  • Elitist

    Jackie Chan was right bout what he said about Chinese…

  • Iz

    Not bad shots of the rear, kinda like it better in the photos =p The digital recreations made em look fat and ugly.

    But still, no mean feat of engineering. Wonder how much it cost to design the one platform, for the one car.

  • Cupid Stunt

    What are the approach angles on a Panamera? Surely this has exceeded them!

    Personally I cannot see the relevance of launching a vehicle to capable of high speeds and great handling on the 94th floor of a building. Ridiculous and irrelevant.

  • WVB

    A spectacular demonstration of specially engineered german pointlessness.

  • Grammar Nazi

    It’s growing on me in the flesh. Would need to fang it around a track however…

  • Marcoz

    hmm..just proves 2 things…
    1* porsche is getting even more STUPID than ever.
    2* That the panamera Looks so much better behind closed doors…

    :)

  • Duck

    Why bother! Just have the premiere on the Ground Floor! Lol!

    Wouldn’t it have been to heavy for the elevator? You’d think so.