the newly updated 2024 Porsche PanameraThe new system counteracts the natural weight transfer that occurs during braking, acceleration, and cornering to minimize occupants' spatial movement. So 2024 Porsche Panameras thus equipped squat when you brake, dive when you accelerate, and lean into turns when you spin the steering wheel.
We experienced the system on the track, as well as via exercises that included back-to-back runs in 2024 Panameras equipped with Porsche Active Ride and without. A lane-change exercise was highly informative, with the Active Ride car's body stability enabling speeds 5 to 10 mph faster. Head toss is greatly reduced in all situations, too, and it's spooky watching a two-plus-ton car scream to a stop with very little body movement.
The mighty 2024 Porsche Panamera Turbo E-Hybrid is a 671-hp, 686-lb-ft plug-in land rocket. Even though it carries as much as 1,000 more pounds than the base nonhybrid V-6 Panamera we drove on Spanish roads, the E-Hybrid's poise and grip levels are outstanding. The steering offers decent feel, and even with Active Ride enabled there'senough lean to communicate how close you are to the car's ultrahigh limits.
The base-model Panamera has a lighter and lither feel even if it can't match the Turbo E-Hybrid's overall capabilities. It handles and rides superbly without the benefit of the complicated Active Ride system's two-valve dampers and hydraulic pumps, gliding over the few imperfections we encountered on public streets and highways. Credit its newly standard air springs, the only springs now available for any Panamera.
The Panamera E-Hybrid's battery pack is now 25.9 kWh, up from 17.9. Combined with "significantly improved" energy recapture, it allowed Porsche to increase the car's all-electric driving range by a claimed 75 percent on the European test cycle. While our less optimistic EPA process might see that improvement percentage dwindle a bit, you can still probably expect something like 45 miles of silent operation. An 11-kW onboard charger (increased from 7.