Porsche Panamera stands straight up in the freight elevator

Porsche Panamera straight up in the freight elevator at Shanghai World Financial Center

By Thami Masemola
April 21, 2009 3:48 PM
Filed Under: Auto Shanghai, German, Porsche, Weird

The Porsche Panamera was unveiled at the 2009 Auto Shanghai. Prior to the main show a small preview event took place. A vehicle needed to be transported there but it was apparently not a simple task.

The event happened on the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center and getting anything of size up to such levels requires either heavy cranes, scaffolding or a helicopter. The organisers went with an elevator. They packed the five-metre long Porsche upright into a service elevator using a motor ramp and some serious manpower. In the end they were able to take the Panamera 425 metres (1,394 ft) up to what is described as the world's highest event platform.

German Porsche dealerships are now taking orders for the four-door performance sedan which debuts there in September with three initial models. These are a 400bhp (298kW) 2WD Panamera S, a Panamera 4S with AWD and a 500bhp (373kW) Panamera Turbo AWD.

Driving the wheels is the Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) 7-speed double-clutch gearbox. US manufacturer suggested retail prices will be US$89,800 for the Panamera S, US$93,800 for the Panamera 4S and US$132,600 for the Turbo when it launches in October.

 

Source: Porsche

Comments

Bristol411S3
April 21, 2009 3:50 PM
Nope, doesn't look good from that angle either. ;-)

Renegade
April 22, 2009 12:43 AM
LoL, good one, but really why didn't they install a proper car elevator, -1 for the architect who designed the building.

911fnatic
April 21, 2009 4:43 PM
What in the hell were they thinking hosting a motoring event on the 94th floor?

Siawa
April 21, 2009 5:05 PM
I thought I misread 94th floor. 94th Floor?! Really?!

NardoW12
April 21, 2009 5:10 PM
$89800 for the S model with PDK? That's not very bad, expect for with all the options that you need to add on a Porsche, it will be north of $100000 for the S one...

ubercool
April 21, 2009 5:33 PM
maybe they were thinking of dropping it from the 94th floor, to see if the rear end might look better lol.

alamak
April 21, 2009 8:44 PM
LMAO...that's a good one

persian187
April 21, 2009 7:49 PM
You kids are nuts. its hot and everyone will want one.

scratchy996
April 21, 2009 11:20 PM
the kids won't be happy until every car will look like the ones in fast and furious.

carcrazy1234
April 22, 2009 7:07 AM
what in gods name do you see in this car EXCEPT ugliness? its absolutely hideous. if you want to go look at a beautiful car turn your head and body over to an aston martin dealership and look at the rapide. now THAT'S how a supercar should be turned into a 4 door sedan

scratchy996
April 22, 2009 11:41 AM
carcrazy1234 , you obviously don't know much about the car industry.

mn07
April 21, 2009 7:59 PM
what an elevator my elevator if thers more than 5 people is beeps and says overloaded

Beetle
April 21, 2009 8:13 PM
Even if it is ugly at the rear , this is a clever marketing trick.


Edited by user on April 21, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Carbonpower
April 21, 2009 9:29 PM
My God it might just sell, they did buy the Cayenne

ADCAR
April 21, 2009 10:01 PM
94th floor why?? is it that crowded on land ?

N20_Purge
April 21, 2009 10:01 PM
Ok, something tells me these guys are doing this because they are desparate to find the angle that this car looks good in.

Can someone tell 'em this little thing? THEY WON'T.

need4speed
April 21, 2009 11:01 PM
dare i say...prepare for lift off?

Renegade
April 22, 2009 12:40 AM
Oh yeah, send it to Saturn and leave it there.


Edited by user on April 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM
THERENAISSANCEMAN
April 22, 2009 2:18 AM
sonomagun... displaying that slack rump in full view is downright....CRIMINAL

davethepetrolhead
April 22, 2009 8:16 AM
I'm guessing the Chinese don't have very strict safety laws you probably wouldn't get away with doing that in another country. Most ppl have seen pics of big forklifts lifting a small forklift carring a aircon unit or something like that in China.

Wunderkind
April 22, 2009 10:28 AM
The building in question is a commerical building and not a convention/exhibition centre. Hence the absence of a 'proper' car size freight lift. The fact that the lift used was tall enough to fit a Panamera in an upright position tells me the architects didn't skim on cost when designing the building.

I'd like the name of the removalist company too. They were good, very good.

kay2009
April 22, 2009 12:09 PM
It's amazing they figure out a way to fit this car into the elevator, doesn't this remind anyone of the parking garage scene in IRobot?

For me the Panamera looks okay from the front, I really don't like the back though. I noticed how many people bashed the car, there's nothing wrong with that it's your opinion. But how many of you can afford a Panamera? This is aimed towards current Porsche owners (911 Turbo, CGT etc...) who would otherwise purchase an S-Class or a 7 series for thier family runabout; now with this new model they can buy a sedan within the Porsche family. Therefore, this car will sell not because of how it looks, it will sell because it's a Porsche.


Edited by user on April 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM
kay2009
April 23, 2009 8:24 AM
Scratchy996: Thanks!

And I wanted to add, the reason why this is mainly aimed at current porsche owners is because if I (and most of you) only had money to buy ONE Porsche at +80,000USD a pop, a Panamera isn't going to be my choice. I'm sure many would agree.

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