Porsche Panamera, the first four door sports car from the Porsche stable has been awarded the Overdrive “Import Car of the Year†and the luxury sports car brand was adjudged the “Most Sporty Brand†by Auto India magazine. Rod Wallace, Managing Director – Precision Cars India Pvt Ltd., the official Porsche importer for India accepted the awards at glittering award ceremonies.
The Panamera had already been awarded the “Das Goldene Lenkrad†(The Golden Steering Wheel) in early November as the “Best New Car of the Year in the Luxury Classâ€. This prize is awarded by the German Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag together with the car magazine Auto Bild and its European issues.
The Panamera is however a great success not only in Europe, but also with international car journalists the world over, having won a number of international awards recently. In Canada, for example, 70 of the leading car journalists grouped within the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) have chosen the Panamera as the “Best New Prestige Carâ€. Conducting thorough test drives, the AJAC journalists were thrilled by the Panamera Turbo featuring, among other highlights, the best brakes and the best acceleration ever measured by the AJAC. Again in Canada, the car journal Le Guide de l’Auto also ranks the Panamera as No 1 in the “Prestige Cars†category.
In the USA the editors of the online magazine Inside Line have given the Panamera their “Most Wanted Awardâ€. A leading automobile portal reaching more readers each month than subscribe to any car journal, Inside Line highlighted in particular the overall performance of Porsche’s Gran Turismo.
In Great Britain the Panamera has brought home no less than two significant titles, Vehicle Dynamics International lauding Porsche’s new luxury performance model not only as their “Car of the Yearâ€, but also the “Dynamicist of the Yearâ€, with its perfectly engineered chassis delivering an equal share of balance, grip, comfort and control all in one. The same magazine lauded the dynamic engine mounts exclusive to the Porsche 911 GT3 and the new 911 Turbo as their “Innovation of the Yearâ€.
