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2017 Porsche Panamera Spied Almost Uncamouflaged

Porsche’s 2017 Panamera is ready for its reveal, but engineers are still testing the car with a bit of camouflage.
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This time, our friends at CarPix spotted the 2017 Panamera in Southern Europe for some hot weather testing. The vehicle barely had any camouflage, as most of it was completely uncovered.

Porsche did place photo-realistic stickers over the headlights and rear lights. The rest of the body of the new Panamera remains uncovered, and looks production ready.

From a design point of view, the upcoming Panamera has turned into an evolution of the 2012 Panamera Sport Turismo concept, but without the look of a shooting brake.

The rear hatch has been changed significantly, and the car has a sleek body. Concerning the inside of the new Panamera, the German manufacturer’s engineers have thoroughly concealed the dash and center console.

Fortunately, we have a good sense of what Porsche wants to do with the interior of the model. While a four-seat configuration is expected to remain standard, the car will get a simplified center console, as well as a dash with fewer buttons.

The Panamera was known for an abundance of buttons, which caused quite a clutter in the hands of the driver. Naturally, the functions these buttons controlled will not go away, but will be available through the updated multimedia interface.

The 2017 Panamera features an all-new platform, called “MSB.” The same platform will be used by the next-generation Continental from Bentley. As in the case of the next Continental, the upcoming Panamera will get a significant benefit in weight, as some expect the car to drop approximately 220 pounds from its current weight, meaning a drop of almost 100 kilograms, as much as a rather large adult male.

Porsche is expected to keep offering six-cylinder and eight-cylinder engines, as well as plug-in hybrid and diesel variants. Naturally, performance-oriented versions will also be present in the 2017 Panamera range. A few years after its introduction, a coupe version may also be in the cards.
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About the author: Sebastian Toma
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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