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Topgear didn't like it

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Helen Goff

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thought it was ugly but by the end they just couldn't quite bring themselves to admit that it came out as the better car allround. it may be ugly but its by far the best value for money, comfort and speed [:)]

and the looks do grow on you..eventually.
 
Hi Helen - I must disagree with you here!

I think it's a fabulous looking car and the ones I have seen at Bolton OPC over the past few months look great in any colour.

I have not seen one in your colour yet - but in the photos yours looks stunning.

It's the same with the Cayenne knockers ( er ummm.....) too. How can anyone say that the Range Rover is better looking than the Cayenne. It looks like a dammed house brick on wheels! Yugh! Perhaps I am just a tad biased but to me the Cayenne, like the Panamera, also has real road presence - and the new one is even better.
 
I'm sure the Panamera was the best car of the three, but Porsche have not done it any favours - it hardly has the most integrated of looks.

The original Cayenne was the same.

Every road test criticised the awkward styling, and it forever suffered from this stigma. It took seven years until the latest 2010 model to rectify. Will the Panamera be the same?

Porsche really should get these things right from outset.
 
Having seen the new Cayenne, I all of a sudden think the old one looks better than the new one. It has more of that "form follows function" look about it.

I am mystified as to why everyone hates the Panamera so much (other than them all being sheep of course). I think it looks different from all the rest, has real presence, and does not look as cheesy as those horrible new Jaguars. I have driven several Panameras now (sadly not the Turbot yet) and think it is a fabulous car. I thought the Top Gear malarky was childish, unfunny and predictable.

But what would I know? [;)]
 
well mine got mistaken for one of these the otherday [:D]
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and you can see why
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so maybe if i stick a pracing horse on the front it'll look prettier [:-]
 
If you want to see it again the episode is on BBC2 right now...
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Just watched it.

I thought that, apart from the usual over-dramatic abuse of the car's looks, they were very complimentary. Have to say that in white it needs harpooning. [:'(]

It's very colour-sensitive. We saw two on one journey soon after the launch, and Jane's comments, as a non-petrolhead, were telling. Silver car, what the hell's that monstrosity. Black car, wow, what does that cost? [&:]

I can't even begin to think of affording one so the looks and performance are irrelevant. Personally, I'd rather cars got smaller and lighter. With less buttons.
 
You already have a prancing horse on the front...

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I was told at Zuffenhausen that it is a female horse on the Porsche badge.
 
You must all have rose tinted Porsche spectacles.

It's hideous.

Its faaaaaaar too big and far too complicated inside.

For £100k i can think of 100 other cars I'd rather buy first.

But we are all different and Americans have no taste whatsoever so it will probably do well[:D]
 
ORIGINAL: jason



Its faaaaaaar too big and far too complicated inside.
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in what way ? now you know i hate Gadgets but the Panamera is simple to use. everything is logically layed out, easy to reach and big anough to read for those of us that need glasses for reading but not for driving. the radio & stat Nav works via touch screen which is idiot proof..which it needs to be for me to use.
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i never worked out how to use the radio & stat Nav in my 2007 997, but the Panamera is Simples [:D].........even for me.[:-]


and only the Turbo comes anywhere near the £100k and even then you'd have to add every single optional extra. we speced up the new Cayenne to the same options level as our Panamera 4S and the diffrence in price was only a few hundred pounds.
 
Well it looked bloody complicated to me Helen...but then you have to understand all my cars don't even have a cigarette lighter....or carpet for that matter! [:D][:D][:D][:D]
 
Well folks, I have a Porsche experience day in the Pan Turbo tomorrow, that's if I ever make it there..............the track is in Crail which is only a few miles from those silly men hitting small balls with sticks in St Andrews!!!!!

And, if it rains, it certainly will be an experience. I'm only 5 foot tall so do you think I'll need a booster seat, it is a huge car for me to drive!!!! As for Jeremy describing the car as looking like a genital wart, do you think he's had a few in his time [;)][;)][;)]

Will report back...............about the car, not the genital warts!!

Kim x
 
Kim, you'll love it. I did the same Crail thing in the Pan 4S recently and was smitten. Shame about the checked trouser brigade cluttering up St Andrews admittedly!

Enjoy!
 
ORIGINAL: jason

Its faaaaaaar too big
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I don't know the precise dimensions of the Panamera, but if it's anywhere along the same lines of the (post-2006 model) Jaguar XKR, then it "won't do" multi-storey car parks.

Ok, so I accept the fact that very few owners of such cars (my boyfriend included with his XKR) wouldn't take them within a mile of a multi-storey car park, but even a normal outdoor car park with fairly generous-sized spaces, still aren't quite big enough.

Since the Panamera has been designed and marketed as a 'family orientated' Porsche, a family might at least expect the car to fit the car into a normal parking space...or more likely two!

Similar with the Cayenne. Granted, it's a 4x4, they're supposed to be big and wide - just what you need for off-roading - but since most are only used as Chelsea tractors, they're often what's holding all the traffic up on a narrow urban road.

EDIT: I should mention of course that I do like both the Panamera and Cayenne (but neither of them in white, ugghhh!), but I just wouldn't want to have to hunt down a big enough parking space for either of them. It's rather ironic that as our roads are becoming increasingly congested, we are trying to fill them with even bigger vehicles!
 
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