The first time you accede to the itch in your brain and the disruption in your heart as your right shoe sole goes from softly resting versus the accelerator to having depressed it hard the whole way beyond the kick-down to the stop, the title of this article becomes absolutely redundant. Your eyes undertake to stay focused as tears of joy mixed with bouts of excitement and anxiety blur the view from the large front windscreen. Involuntarily you grip the leather wrapped steering wheel a small tighter with every passing unit on the panamera’s speedometer – which gives pride of place at the centre of the instrument consolation to the rather large rev-counter – just the way it had better be in any true-blue sportscar.
Then, as the car changes up through the lower gears, the front set about to go light – the wheel goes loose and you glance into the rear view mirror? Shaped to mock the outline of the rear windscreen. And that is when it actually hits you – that the car you are driving Is not a small, agile and nimble lightweight sportscar, but in actual essence a grand tourer that seats four and weighs almost 2 tonnes! But on the other hand, don’t glance at the rear view mirror, concentrate on the superiorly stylish dash and the plethora of buttons at your disposition and you’ll more than likely feel like you’re just as well in a porsche 911 – a rather large porsche 911 really.
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