Here"s a secret history of Porsche"s four-door sports cars

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Written by Ollie Kew
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The Porsche Panamera is ten years old. In its decade of existence, and over 235,000 sales and counting, the Panamera has morphed a long way.It used to be a hideously ugly sea monster lookalike, available with naturally aspirated V8s and a manual gearbox, believe it or not. These days it"s a very sleek, cool-looking device, turbocharged to the gunwales and crammed with tech. You can even have a hybrid Turbo S plug-in version with 918 Spyder hypercar cleverness and over 670bhp.Quite a journey, then. But that"s nothing compared to Porsche"s secret history of four door sports cars. The Panamera was the first Porsche saloon" to make production, but just check out these what-might-have-been prototypes

Date written: 26 Apr 2019

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