New Panamera Keeps Up With LFA at Nürburgring

By adpock - June 30, 2016

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There are two ways to look at this. You can be upset that a luxury sedan just caught up to the LFA’s Nürburgring lap time, or you can be happy that even though production on the limited-run supercar ended in December 2012, the auto rags are still talking about it.

Take, for example, CarScoops‘ recent article titled, “New Porsche Panamera Turbo Is As Fast As Lexus’ LF-A Around The Nurburgring”. As with the Porsche video below, the article details the next-generation 2017 Porsche Panamera Turbo’s very impressive 7:38 Nürburgring lap time.

According to Porsche, that makes the Panamera the “fastest luxury sedan on earth.” And, furthermore, the redesign means it won’t be the worst-looking Porsche around anymore.

For comparison, CarScoops then looked at this list of the Top 100 lap times around the Green Hell, and highlighted other cars that have scored the exact same time, including our favorite supercar, the Lexus LFA, at #44.

Of course, the article failed to mention that while the Panamera’s time is certainly impressive, it’s not quite as impressive as the 8th place time of 7:14.64 still held by the Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package.