Range-topping Panamera is now the fastest luxury class car around the Nurburgring Nordschleife.
The Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid has been revealed as the range-topping version of the sporty, four-door sedan. The Turbo S E-Hybrid gets a 599hp, 4.0-litre biturbo V8 engine that’s combined with a 190hp gearbox-mounted electric motor to deliver a total output of 782hp and 1,000Nm of peak torque.
- Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid sprints from 0-100kph in 2.9 seconds
- Holds Nurburgring record for luxury class car with 7min 24.17sec time
- Gets design changes and feature updates over the GTS launched in India
Porsche claims that this top-spec Panamera can hit 100kph from standstill in just 2.9 seconds, which is 0.3 seconds quicker than the Turbo E-Hybrid, and matches the furiously quick Ferrari 296 GTB. The powertrain has also enabled the Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid to become the new holder of the fastest luxury class car around Nurburgring Nordschleife, with a time of 7 minutes and 24.17 seconds. This makes it more than a second faster than the Tesla Model S Plaid Track Pack and almost six seconds quicker than the previous-generation Panamera.
Porsche test driver Lars Kern set a new record in the new Panamera.
The Turbo S E-Hybrid’s 25.9kWh (gross) battery pack is said to go 88km (WLTP) on a single charge, and it can be be charged with the standard 11kW AC charger from 0-100 percent in two hours and 39 minutes. Porsche claims a top speed of 325kph, which is an improvement of 25kph over its predecessor.
Compared to the Panamera GTS that’s gone on sale in India for Rs 2.34 crore, the Turbo S E-Hybrid sports different front and rear bumpers, chrome-plated exhaust tips finished in Dark Bronze, ceramic brakes (440mm front/380mm rear) with yellow brake callipers, a Bose sound system, and Turbonite (metallic grey) highlights outside, and in the cabin.
As we had reported earlier, the GTS will be the most powerful Panamera in India as the Turbo models, being hybrids, will not be brought to the country.
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