Later next year, Porsche will bring the 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid supercar to the market and it will cost around $750,000. Don’t want to wait that long – or more importantly – don’t want to wait that much? Porsche may have a new solution for you in mid-2013. The company plans on introducing a plug-in [...]
In Sept. 2011, the new 360-hp Infiniti M Hybrid set the Guinness World Record for the world’s fastest hybrid by running the standing quarter mile in 13.9031 seconds. Infiniti is now banking on that move with a new commercial released yesterday called ‘The Duel.’ The commercial shows the Infiniti M35h Hybrid going head-to-head with the 2012 Porsche [...]
Porsche’s sales and marketing head Bernhard Maier said that the company expects its new-car sales in Europe to grow significantly. “In Europe, a 20 percent growth rate is absolutely conceivable,” Maier said. Maier said that new products like the next-generation Porsche 911 and the Porsche Panamera S Hybrid and Panamera Diesel. Last year, the company [...]
Last week, we here at egmCarTech launched a new segment called ‘Let’s Talk Numbers,’ where we take two or more vehicles and do a straight number battle and leave it up to you guys to decide which car is a better buy. We launched the segment with two new, fast and gas-guzzling supercars – the Ferrari 458 Italia vs. [...]
Key Competitors: BMW ActiveHybrid 750i, Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid, Audi A8 Hybrid. Power: 3.0L supercharged V6 engine making 333-hp is coupled with a 47-hp electric-motor. Transmission: 8-speed Tiptronic S transmission 0 to 60 mph: 5.7 seconds. Top Speed: 167 mph. Fuel-economy: 34.5 mpg combined. Price: $95,000. The BMW ActiveHybrid 750i starts at $102,300; the Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid starts at $91,000; [...]
The 2012 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid is ready to make its debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, after which it will go on sale in the United States at the end of 2011. Porsche has just released a short video of the Panamera S Hybrid in action. Click here for our original post on [...]
Debuting at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show will be the 2012 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid, the most fuel-efficient Porsche of all time. The Porsche Panamera S Hybrid sedan joins the Cayenne S Hybrid SUV as the company’s second hybrid road-going model and will be powered by the same gasoline engine/electric-motor setup in the Cayenne S [...]
Porsche’s new CEO Matthias Muller has confirmed that the sports car maker has plans to launch a diesel-powered Panamera in the second half of next year. In an interview with Westfalen-Blatt, Muller said that the success of the Cayenne diesel is one of the key reasons to push the Panamera diesel forward. Now word on [...]
We hate CO2 emissions and fuel-economy regulations as much as Porsche does. However, to stay alive and profitable, Porsche will have to do all it can to reduce C02 and please the governments. According to Porsche development chief Wolfgang Duerheimer, the company is planning to have hybrid drive in every model line in the future. [...]
Of all the auto manufacturers struggling to meet strict U.S. fuel-economy standards of 35.5 mpg by 2016, Porsche is probably one automaker that has it the worst. However, Detlev Von Platen, the Porsche’s North American president, told Reuters that meeting the company will do what it takes. The U.S. fuel economy standards will affect 2017 [...]
