Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo: Production starts in Germany of the good looking Panamera

Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo Production starts in Germany

The Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo – the ‘Estate’ take on the Panamera – has gone in to production at Porsche’s plant in Leipzig.

The Porsche Panamera is an impressive car, but it was never a looker.

It wasn’t so much the front – which looks like a Porsche should – but the back end was just not right.

But, to a degree, Porsche managed to fix the back end when the new Panamera arrived last year, although it won’t be challenging Aston Martin for the title of most beautiful four-door supercar.

But there is a Panamera that does look very special, and that’s the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo – revealed in production guise at the Geneva Motor Show – and it’s gone in to production this week at Porsche’s plant in Leipzig.

It’s a car no one ever expected Porsche to make – a four-do0r Estate car – but it looks terrific, has a completely new ‘Shooting Brake’ back end and, for our money, will mean no one wanting the normal Panamera any more.

After all, you get a much better looking car, more practicality, more headroom in the back and the choice of a Panamera 4 Sport Turismo, 4S, E-Hybrid and Turbo too.

The only model missing from the line-up is the option of the Turbo S E-Hybrid with its 671bhp from the equation. But that must come too.

So for all those who have put down their money on a Sport Turismo – after wanting one since Porsche first revealed the Sport Turismo Concept in 2012 – the wait is almost over.