Second Time’s a Charm

It has been eight years since Porsche introduced its luxury four-door Panamera. The car’s second generation has just been unveiled and Andre Lam heads to Munich to review the daring new advancements of the ultimate sports sedan

ere this a sports car, its century sprint timing of 3.6sec and top speed of 306km/h would have suggested that it might be a Porsche 911 Carrera GTS. However, these statistics do not belong to one of the German marque’s two-door coupes. It belongs to its latest four-door uber saloon, the Panamera Turbo. It might not rank among the fastest supercars, but in its category, it is peerless with such uncanny sprinting capacity and top speed. This is thanks to a tremendous combination of a 550hp V8 bi-turbo engine, all-wheel drive traction, new eight-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission with Sport Chrono and Launch Control. It is even more stunning when you discover that it rockets from 100km/h to 160km/h in just 4.5sec and on to 200km/h in another 4.6sec, jeopardising your