2019 Porsche Panamera GTS first drive review

“How was it?” a former colleague asked me upon my return from the Kingdom of Bahrain where I drove a Panamera Sport Turismo GTS around the island and lapped the slightly lighter Panamera GTS around the Bahrain International Circuit. Turns out, my old coworker now works for Porsche in Germany, and after 22 hours’ worth of flights home, I unloaded on him with something like this. “How is it? Well, it fits perfectly between the Panamera 4S and the Turbo. Right smack in the middle. It is like they built it by numbers. And, for just $24,000 more than a 4S, you get 13 extra horsepower!” Why so angry, and specifically why so angry about a pretty decent full-size sport sedan/wagon? Keep reading.

 

Surface Transforms (LON:SCE) is a highly innovative company, with its own patented materials technology and a team of PhD-qualified scientists and degree-qualified engineers who are continually developing new processes for the production of carbon-ceramic materials and new products for various applications. ST is a manufacturer of next-generation carbon-ceramic brake discs for automotive and aircraft applications and has been certified to IS9001-2000 since 2008 and was certified to TS16949 automotive quality accreditation and AS9100C aerospace quality accreditation in 2015.

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