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Porsche Panamera S

Outer Peace?
No car is perfect and the low, long hatchback body has its detractors. I’m not one of them. I had an exceptionally stylish, attractive woman in her S-Class do a full head-swivel whiplash turn when she saw the Porsche in the parking lot of a Target. She smiled at me. I smiled back. Then she stopped looking at me and looked at the car again. In the store she somehow found me, cornered me, and asked about a dozen questions—about the car. The rock on her finger told me she was well taken care of and apparently my getup in jeans and a t-shirt did nothing for my street cred.

Anyway, the point of all that was that I’ve heard from plenty of women how much they like the look of the Panamera, and I trust them to have better taste than men.

One thing about those women, and those men: outward vision from the Panamera isn’t stellar. The aft view is particularly poor, and you must order the $600 Park Assist system or risk more than one parking lot ding. Wise use of your mirrors is also a must.

So it’s not perfect, but the Panamera S is close, and more than perhaps any other Porsche we’ve driven we’d laud this car with providing the perfect blend of pragmatism, entertainment, and luxury. And that seems in ideal keeping with Porsche tradition.