Porsche's roomy family saloon

The Porsche Panamera - a 911 wrapped in a gran turismo body - is a fast, comfortable and practical big saloon

The Panamera is Porsche's first luxury saloon, says Ben Barry in Car, and it is a "highly appealing car fast, comfortable, practical, frugal and very well built".

The basic idea was a very good one: wrap a Porsche 911 in a gran turismo body. You'll get what Porsche was trying to do the moment you climb into the very-911-like interior. And from the outside it looks much like a 911 too, albeit with its 4.8-litre, V8 engine in the front.

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