Porsche Panamera To Share Its Platform With Other Volkswagen Brands

Earlier renowned automaker Porsche had no intentions of sharing its platform with its competitors but the company’s integration into the Volkswagen group has seen that decision reverse. The Panamera is reported to be shared with the others in the VW group while the Cayenne is shared to VW as Touareg. As for the Panmaera it will not be replaced till it dies in 2017.

It is difficult to gauge which brand would benefit from the Porsche engineered sedan platform. The name is not yet out, but Lamborghini is ruled out which leaves with options of Audi or Bentley as the most likely recipients.  Luxury cars like Buggati and more brands like VW are somewhat left behind.

The next generation car would include features such as gasoline V6 engine derived from the company’s V8 in 2010 and a hybrid version in 2011. Insiders report that it is unlikely that the company would come out with a diesel version as high performance V8 and V10 diesels offered by German competitors have received a very sluggish response.

Whatever the end product that might be formed by the Volkswagen Porsche union, it is definite to be an elaborate one.

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