Yahoo Autos Here's why the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo isn't coming back
LEIPZIG, Germany — The third-generation Porsche Panamera will exclusively be offered as a sedan when it goes on sale for 2025. The long-roof Sport Turismo version added to the range for the 2018 model year isn't coming back, and Autoblog sat down with a top Porsche executive to find out why.
"When it comes to the customer's point of view, [the Sport Turismo variant] is a little bit of a design piece. The practicality of the car doesn't change much compared to [the standard Panamera] because we have the huge hatch. The sedan's hatch is big, and the Sport Turismo's is more or less the same," replied Dr. Thomas Friemuth, the Panamera line's vice president, when I asked why the wagon isn't coming back.
It takes little more than a quick glance at a specifications sheet to understand what he's alluding to. In the outgoing Panamera sedan, you've got 17.6 cubic feet of trunk space with both rows of seats left up and 47.3 cubes with the rear seats folded flat. In the Panamera Sport Turismo, those figures increase to 18.3 and 49, respectively. The difference between the sedan and the wagon is smaller than many assume.
