The Panamera and Taycan represent SLOTXO the pinnacle of sports saloon handling prowess. But with the base Taycan being some S$40,000 less expensive than the comparable Panamera, is it a better choice?
It might surprise you to learn this, but the idea of a four-door Porsche was mooted as far back as the late 1980s. There was the 928-based (Porsche’s grand tourer model at the time) H50 design study and there was the 989 concept car of 1991, though crucially, none of those cars ever saw production.
The fact the carmaker was then facing financial troubles and having a bit of an existential crisis with the 911 was partly to blame.
With that, the Porsche saloon, melding the sporting qualities of the 911 with long-haul touring comfort would only be revived some 20 years later with the first Panamera in 2009.
Of course, Porsche was then, as is now, in a much different place, flush with all the money it was (and still is) making off the Cayenne SUV.
And so it goes. The Panamera is now in its second model generation, even spawning a fraternal twin in the form of the Panamera Sport Turismo shooting brake (think a sporty station wagon, and again another idea Porsche first floated in the 1980s).