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Stuttgart. Ten years ago, #Porsche launched into a new market segment. With the #Panamera, the sports car manufacturer presented its first Gran Turismo in April 2009. Like no other car in the luxury car class, this model combines the performance one would expect from a sports car with the luxury and versatility of a touring saloon. While #Porsche initially planned production of 20,000 units per year, the #Panamera has long since exceeded all expectations: more than 235,000 cars have been delivered so far.
“As a technology platform for innovations that were later transferred to other models, the #Panamera has played a significant role in shaping the past ten years of the brand’s history,” explains #michaelsteiner, then first Vice President of the product line, today Member of the Executive Board Research and Development. “With its high-perfor- mance hybrid variants, it is now above all a trailblazer for electromobility at #Porsche.” The current, second model generation is manufactured entirely in the #Porsche plant in Leipzig, and comes in three different body variants. Thomas Friemuth has been Vice President of the product line since May 2018.
First four-seater #Porsche prototype based on the 356
A #Porsche for four – over the course of the company’s more than 70-year history, Por- sche engineers kept coming back to this idea. In the 1950s, they developed a comfort- able four-seater based on the 356. The Type 530 had a lengthened wheelbase, larger doors and a raised roof at the rear. Others followed, including a four-door prototype based on the 911 and, in the 1980s, lengthened variants of the 928. Ferry #Porsche used one of these as his private car. In 1988, #Porsche made a new attempt with the Type 989: the four-door coupé offered space for two full seats in the rear. The drive power was provided by a V8 front engine. Design elements from the 989 were later incorporated into the 911 of the 993 generation. Like all similar concepts before it, however, the 989 remained a prototype. For economic reasons, development was dis- continued at the start of 1992.
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