Porsche Panamera- A Mistake?
I don’t like Porsches. Never have. The ugly headlights, the ugly nose, the ridiculous spoilers. To me, they are tasteless little wannabe Lamborghini/Ferraris. And whenever my feelings for Porsche start to get milder, some new mistake sends it right back on track.
The mistake in question here is the upcoming Porsche Panamera. It’s supposed to be a “four door coupe“, a new term that has somehow popped up among the more pathetic car manufacturers. The term itself is contradicting. A coupe has two doors. A four door automobile is a sedan. The two are NOT the same. It’s just a lame attempt by some companies to sell their non-sporty cars as sporty.
Anyway, the entire idea of Porsche making a sedan just doesn’t seem right to me. They make the majority of their sales from their coupes, because that is what a Porsche is. A Porsche is supposed to be a fast, little, comfortable, and somewhat expensive two door sports car. When Porsche introduced the Cayenne SUV, it did very little to improve sales, and it smudged the company name. If you all remember, they got a lot of flak for trying to advertise an SUV as a sports automobile. Now, for some reason, they’re diverging from the brand again, this time in the form of a sedan.
What’s more, they plan to take on the upcoming Aston Martin Rapide. I don’t know what’s gotten into the head of Porsche’s top brass, but there is no way in hell that they can take on Aston Martin and expect to win. Porsche is playing out of their league, and I suspect that will not be able to handle it.
Just like it should be.
I don’t like it when cars try to be something that they’re not. Seeing a ridiculous Japanese ricer Civic just makes me think “poser” and “wannabe”. Porsche is a fine example of this. They try to play with the big boys (Lambo and Ferrari), but they just can’t hack it. Sure, the GT3 is fast, and can even best the F430 and the Murcielago in certain events, but it still does not have the class and the prestige that the truly exotic manufacturers have. Now, they are going for Aston Martin, who for many years has owned the luxury/sports car category. I hope that they fail.
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