All-new 2017 Porsche Panamera moves to VW modular platform

Creating any new Porsche is one of the most challenging design and engineering tasks in the auto industry. Whether sports car, sedan or SUV it has to embody the essence of the iconic 911 but also meet the practical and aesthetic expectations of buyers who believe they know exactly what they want.

In the view of some critics, the 2009 Panamera sports sedan-or 4-door Gran Turismo as Porsche describes it-did not wholly meet those criteria, although with more than 150,000 built it was hardly a failure.