Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid 2014-2017 | COMPREHENSIVE Review!!
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Jonathan Crouch writes an in-depth Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid 2014-2017 review. If you want to watch more reviews on vehicles like this Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid 2014-2017, make sure to SUBSCRIBE to our channel and comment what YOU want us to review next.
The Panamera is a luxury five-door sportscar that, in the plug-in hybrid 'S E-Hybrid' form that Porsche sold between 2014 and 2016, was targeted at a very unique kind of customer. If you can afford a well looked after example of this eco-friendly business express, then the idea of a four-seat, 167mph Porsche that returns over 91mpg and emits just 71g/km of carbon dioxide may be tempting indeed. This is a car like no other from its era.
History
It took Porsche a long time to develop hybrid power but when they did so, they did a thorough job. We first saw a petrol/electric engine in one of the brand's models in the Panamera S Hybrid of 2011, but this was a derivative that didn't really make economic sense for the majority of European customers, either to buy or to run. However, when Porsche facelifted the first generation Panamera range in 2013, they brought us something much better - a plug-in version of that car, the Panamera S E-Hybrid model that we're going to look at here as a potential used buy.
At its launch, this was billed as the most economical Porsche of all time and its designers claimed it to be the most efficient car you could buy back in 2013. Yes really. You might find that difficult to credit given that we're talking here of a two tonne Grand Touring five-door sportscar powered by a supercharged 3.0-litre six cylinder petrol engine and capable of nearly 170mph. But it's just a question of adjusting your frame of reference.
Consider this question from the point of view of how much horsepower you get for every gramme of CO2 your car emits and the results you'd expect are turned on their head. Back in 2013, an apparently eco-conscious car like Toyota's Prius hybrid produced 98bhp and emitted 89g/km of CO2 - that's just 1.1bhp per g/km. In contrast, this Panamera, with 416bhp and emissions as low as 71g/km, worked its engine for an impressive 5.9bhp for every gramme of carbon dioxide emitted. Which, from Porsche's perspective at least, made it unchallenged on this basis as the most efficient production car on sale to British buyers at the time of this model's launch.
This really was a very different proposition from the original Hybrid Panamera with its ancient nickel metal hydride battery, feeble electric motor and pathetically small electric-only driving range. Buyers of this improved S E-Hybrid model could plug this car into the mains, go five times as far on electric-only power and enjoy far more spirited performance, yet do all that with supermini-style running costs. As Porsche puts it, these are 'thrilling contradictions'. Let's see if this car can deliver on its claims.
Writer - Jonathan Crouch
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28 июн 2024
