Just last week, Porsche teased us with a partial front side view of the Panamera and already German based Porsche tuner 9ff is busy preparing a program. Naturally, 9ff has had many spy photos to reference for their preliminary designs, but the final Panamera design details are still a mystery. So it's no surprise that 9ff have only added minor alterations to the somewhat blank Panamera canvas with the addition of signature 9ff wheels and a rear bumper diffuser with integrated trapezoidal dual exhaust pipes.
Porsche Panamera First Sketches by 9ff
9ff Porsche Panamera
Comments
phobos
September 24, 2008 11:52 AM
that rear end is getting worse every time i see it..is that an estate or a four door coupe ?..AM Rapide and MB CLS are way better than this sketches...i don't understand porsche's move on this four door coupe segment..ugly
ShinyG
September 24, 2008 12:18 PM
The rear is wrong ;) I've seen the latest official sketch on the official site and the top line of the rear lights is different!
LMS
September 24, 2008 1:50 PM
They lack depth in light/shading, they accentuate the shutlines/connection of body panels which in combination with low detailing looks cartoonish.
Cocept sketches are vague to convey a feeling and general shape rather than the details, detailed renderings try to appear lifelike, this is somewhere inbetween.
saint_dracula
September 28, 2008 2:09 PM
I don't think the rendering really matters: what they are trying to express is the basic shape and design. What you argue wouldn't be applicable to sketches
catchmyshadow
September 24, 2008 12:31 PM
Porsche is all about tradition and the Panamera fits in that tradition very well. the front looks a bit like the CarreraGT, the rear is in the vein of the 928s,944s and 968s 4seaters of the late 80s. it´s growing on me with every step.
M!
September 24, 2008 12:53 PM
9ff knows that there are rich people who have lots of money and no taste.
Jamie.Matthews
September 24, 2008 1:28 PM
They should do it like the 911 9ff gt2 thing, make have some character at least
Nurchus
September 24, 2008 1:38 PM
I love Porsche, but this thing is just an abomination. Absolutely horrid in my opinion.
catchmyshadow
September 24, 2008 2:06 PM
u maybe love the 911 but u don`t love porsche, if so u would try see the typical and unique Porsche design idea behind the panamera...
mc959
September 24, 2008 4:07 PM
i find the rear ok, looks like a Jaguar type-E from the 60's, and that's a nice car too(ok it doesn't have 4 doors!)
catchmyshadow
September 24, 2008 6:39 PM
exactly, many poeple don`t even know these kind of cars anymore, like this one:
http://www.autobild.de/ir_img/57409862_0953cf965c.jpg (one of the ancestors of the panamera, the 356)
Paulds
September 24, 2008 5:43 PM
No more sketches!! I want to see the real one! Hope it would look better...
kevoluetion
September 25, 2008 4:55 AM
I doubt it will be much different....if they follow the same design cues from existing porsches, thats probably as close as it will get
MAB
September 24, 2008 7:23 PM
Put the CarreraGT rear end on it, adding a deeper slope to the rear window ending in a creased lip - then it'd look pretty damned decent. Its just too bulbousy back there, like Porsche only felt the need to make it look Porsche-like without thinking too heavily on the actual outcome.
rare
September 24, 2008 8:19 PM
I am starting to think its getting better looking. I think a lot of its going to depend on the choice of wheels TBH!
THERENAISSANCEMAN
September 24, 2008 10:23 PM
face it , gentlemen . that old , legendary and inimitable sweepback is never gonna work elsewhere in any of current Porsche ranges , except where it originally belonged... in the last air/oil-cooled 993 series . that is because the old car was gifted with just about the right physical proportions from every conceivable angle right from the beginning of its inception - a dimensional virtue associated with 2+2 coupes of compact dimensions , never on full - sized 4-seater automobiles .just look at the stretched 928 birthday gift given to Ferry as well as the extended 993-based concept 999 , they all looked naturally LUDICROUS . corporate bureaucrat Wiedeking may crank up all the horsepower in the world just to make this thing fly to the moon , or may even make a grand effort to commercially persuade nicole kidman to spread her naked, kilometric alabaster thighs across the entire width of this car in order to lure prospective buyers , but in the final analysis all the money spent on this piece of metal amounts to nothing but a BUTT-UGLY PORSCHE SEDAN , a crystal clear-cut direction as to where Porsche's aesthetics are going these days.
catchmyshadow
September 24, 2008 11:37 PM
it WILL work, in 2 years u will regret ur statement looking at the sales.
kevoluetion
September 25, 2008 4:56 AM
Is it about making beautiful performance vehicles while living up the heritage and vision? Or is it about making profit? If its about profit, you have your toyota.
M!
September 25, 2008 6:23 AM
cathmyshadow: the cayenne is even worse, and there are lots of tasteless people who just want a porsche. sales figure does not equate to good looking cars.
catchmyshadow
September 25, 2008 10:48 AM
i do not say the cayenne is a classic beauty, but it wouldn`t be such a success if it wouldn`t be at least looking okay and satisfying. of course there are people who hate it but the are many more who like it and buy it that is what counts in the end, same with the panamera and the panamera isn´t uglier than the cayenne that´s for sure...
M!
September 25, 2008 12:07 PM
those who buy the cayenne like it because it is a porsche, not because it is 'okay looking and satisfying'. and some of them want an SUV and they think a Porsche SUV suck less. people responding to this post are saying the Panamera is ugly. not even okay looking.
alessandro
September 26, 2008 7:46 PM
That one is not worst Porsche. Ugliest is Cayenne. Catchmyshdow, sale figures have no direct connection to the actual value of anything but have a known conjunction to the individuality and/or depersonalisation of target customership.
bernardo
September 25, 2008 3:49 PM
Its almost unbelivable how bad this thing looks.How come a company that made just about the best looking car ever (CGT), could come out with this POS..as if the cayenne wasn't enough!!And YES people buy cayennes JUST because its a porsche, i've seen several times this happening.
catchmyshadow
September 28, 2008 5:21 PM
So why do people don´t buy a R-class because of the same reasons, i mean it´s a mercedes...?? The R-class concept is better than any SUV concept available and it sells like sh1te and is one of the biggest flops in the modern era of mercedes. i tell u why, because it looks shit. cars don`t sell like the cayenne does if they look buttugly, doesn`t matter if it´s a porsche or not, simple as that.
bimmerboi14
October 2, 2008 6:47 PM
its quite ugly!!!!!!!!! i hope this is wrong if not the panamera is more of an e class wagon or 5 series wagon competitor
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