What is it?
The Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid is more fresh meat for the lower end of the Porsche Panamera range – which is a confusing enough place to negotiate as it is.
There’s the entry-level Panamera, the Panamera 4, the 4S and the 4S Diesel to choose from down here already: sub-£100k options all, powered by no fewer than three different engines and offering the choice of either one driven axle or two.
Into that mix now enters the four-wheel drive Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, adding V6 petrol-electric power to the existing choice of V6 petrol or V8 diesel engines – and that’s not counting the V8 petrol or V8 petrol-electric options on offer if you’re prepared to spend upwards of £100,000 on a car with that ever-alluring 'turbo' badge on the bootlid.
The hybrid slots into the range between the regular Panamera 4 and the pair of 4S models on price, being slightly slower-accelerating than both of them on paper – but, confusingly, also more powerful than both.
Its combustion engine is a detuned version of the twin-turbocharged 2.9-litre V6 from the 4S, which produces 326bhp and 332lb ft of torque. Electrical motive force comes from a 134bhp, 295lb ft motor mounted upstream of the car’s eight-speed ‘PDK’ gearbox and four-wheel drive system. So the car is technically similar to ‘plug-in’ hybrids from BMW, Mercedes and Audi, which use electric and piston engines driving a common transmission - rather than those made by the likes of Mitsubishi and Volvo with their ‘electric rear axles’.
Like other Porsche Panameras, the car offers four doors, four seats and a large liftback-style boot, and all are combined with a curving roofline that Porsche hopes you’ll consider sufficiently ‘coupé-like’ to consider the car more elegant and desirable than the average three-box saloon. And if you don’t, the 4 E-Hybrid will also be available as a Sport Turismo shooting brake.
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Deprication affects ICE too
Its big time on all Panamera's, including Diesels. Don't believe me, look at the number of low mileage second hand ones on the Porsche Website.
xxxx wrote:
52. Gosh!
the depreciation is enough to shut up shop
So to speak, I would not be confident with any ev or hybrid buying new ,buy second hand at ther price of a conventional combustion alternative to allow for massive loss to original purchaser .The learning curve is quite vast with this I fear,resulting in obsolescence within years of purchase will it be 3, 5 or 10.Also,depends on the new kids on the block ie Dyson etc.Plus other new technologies.
Depreciation ? Who cares
Depreciation ? Who cares these days ? Can you see anyone this side of a Lotto-winner paying for a Panamera other than with a PCP ? Mmm: thought not. These will go to people who'll rent at an 'affordable' and 'tax deductible' figure and give it back to Porsche AG to re-fettle after 3 years...to then punt out again at another (lower) rental figure....until, 10-15 years later, it shows up a local scrap metal merchant near you.....
Ski Kid wrote:
I don't know, used hybrids seem to be quite expensive, look at the price of a 10 year old prius or insight compared with say a focus or civic, they aren't cheap.
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