Porsche has either not read “The Art of War†or it doesn’t believe it. The German sports car powerhouse has declared that its upcoming Panamera four-door will take on – and beat – just about everybody. Few prestige cars have escaped the sights of Porsche’s Panamera and it has effectively declared war on every potential rival: Its neighbors in Stuttgart, Munich and Ingolstadt, to the English, the Italians and even the Japanese.
But it’s not just rival four-doors, because Porsche believes its Panamera is so good it will comfortably tackle everything from pure-bred sports cars to luxury limos to everything in between. At a recent technology workshop for the upcoming Panamera, the head of its driveline development group, Dr Heinz-Jakob Neuβer, insisted the 197-inch-long grand tourer was so strong it would… DetailsÂ