Scoop: 2009 Porsche Panamera

Porsche has been developing its first 4door sedan for quiet a long time now but we still haven’t seen the pre-production concept that the German firm has promised us so until then we’ll have to be content with any spy shots we’re seeing around the net. These ones come from Swedish AMS and they show the Panamera in full action somewhere in Gothenburg.

The front-engined, rear-wheel drive Panamera, which is scheduled to be unveiled at the 2009 Geneva show, will take on the likes of Mercedes CLS, Maserati Quattroporte and the future Aston Martin Rapide. The engine range will come straight from the Cayenne which means that the basic edition to be fitted with VW Group’s 3.6 FSI V6 revised to 290Hp while the top-spec versions will receive Porsche’s 4.8 V8 in naturally aspirated and twin-turbocharged guises developing 385 and 500Hp respectively. Via: AMS