2021 Porsche Panamera Maintains Relevance With Improvements on All Fronts

2021 Porsche Panamera Maintains Relevance With Improvements on All Fronts

Published: September 1, 2020 | By: American Luxury Staff

Porsche revealed 2021 model year updates to its executive performance sedan, the Panamera, this week. What’s new for next year? Most importantly: a pair of new variations on the theme for 2021, and also more efficient V6 and V8 engines. And a few cosmetic changes give the lineup a revised look befitting a mid-cycle rethink.

First on the list are the new additions to the lineup. Porsche has filled in the Panamera family with a hybrid—the ‘4S E-Hybrid’—which takes the place of the Panamera Turbo. Those enamored of that good ol’ turbo frisson will have to spend the extra cash on the Turbo S variant.

Next up: alterations to the Panamera family’s drivetrain. The entry-level V6 has been redesigned in a slightly smaller biturbo format; it loses 5 horsepower but, one assumes, gains some MPG resilience; in the context of the 4S E-Hybrid and its new 17.9-kWh battery, the result is a 552-horsepower performance car with a green soul. The Panamera GTS’s V8, on the other hand, gets an efficiency-oriented redesign that boosts the horsepower rating from 452 to 473, and the biturbo design has less of a lag than before. The Turbo S has 620 HP available for 2021, and can hit 60 from a standstill in less than 3 seconds.

Cosmetic changes include the addition of Porsche’s SportDesign front end as standard. Also standard is PASM—Porsche Active Suspension Management System—which is good news for drivers who like a little thrill on a regular basis. That is, anyone who is seriously considering driving home a Panamera in 2021.

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