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Old 12-17-09, 05:21 AM
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http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/16/f...-panamera-ever

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FAB Design Porsche Panamera: A Full Broadside

FAB Design has refined the new Porsche Panamera and turned the conservative, standard product into a dream car.

The tuners from Mellingen have expanded their programme from one originally limited to Mercedes to now include the FAB Exclusive Line. Here, mainly in accordance with customers' wishes, small numbers – limited to no more than 15 – of other luxury brands are developed. In such a way were Maybach and McLaren refined. The FAB Panamera is, therefore, the first – but definitely not the last – vehicle from this new series that doesn't come from the house of Daimler.

The sport limousine modified for the first time by FAB catches the eye mainly because of its extrovert Wide Bodykit. Its made of a sportily redesigned front element with powerful cooler intakes and an all encompassing front spoiler. The front hood and other external accessories are naturally made of real carbon. The eye of the beholder falls immediately on the widened wing that takes in the rear passenger doors so elegantly that the vehicle seems more like a coupé. In addition the side skirts were
made to fit the design and connect the line of the front apron with the rear of the vehicle – on which is enthroned a completely new form of rear spoiler that receives the optimum air stream from the roof spoiler and that ideally fits the vehicle's performance. Beneath it can be found the FAB rear skirt with an integrated diffuser and three trapeziform, centrally placed endpipes.

The carbon fibre rear wings mentioned above are designed to improve the output at the rear of the vehicle, then the engineers from Mellingen haven't let the performance go unnoticed. After the modification the 4.8 litre turbo delivers up to 700 PS. By mounting a lowering module the vehicle's centre of gravity is lowered by around 20 millimetres. A sports braking system that peeps out from behind the three-part, 22 inch spoked rims takes care of the appropriate negative acceleration.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/1...-ever/

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Old 12-17-09, 06:00 AM
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Hmmm... good with it except for rear diffuser set-up...
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Old 12-17-09, 06:13 AM
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Lol at the Autoblog URL vs the press release text.
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Old 12-17-09, 06:26 AM
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i dunno.. i kinda like it...
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Old 12-17-09, 08:40 AM
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i haven't been a big fan of fab stuff
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Old 12-17-09, 10:37 AM
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way overdone, but that's intentional
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Old 12-17-09, 11:27 AM
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the rear is no no....
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Old 12-17-09, 12:09 PM
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Ok I think i'll take this over the 4-door... Wow.. Nice..
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Old 12-17-09, 12:19 PM
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I still don't like the look of this car but hey, it is a Porsche.
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There is no hope in curing the Panamera's ugliness.

Well, maybe a sledgehammer...
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Old 12-17-09, 01:47 PM
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Definition of overdone. Lose the fender flares and the body kit
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Old 12-17-09, 01:53 PM
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I've seen it in person today in a car show, it was AMAZING!
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Old 12-17-09, 03:03 PM
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The rear reminds me of Need For Speed Underground series.
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Old 12-24-09, 04:11 AM
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is it me, or does it look a little like this car...


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Old 12-24-09, 04:55 AM
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Yeah, that body cladding is overdone. It's a first effort...back to the drawing board.
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