2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid first drive review: the 918 Spyder distilled

2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-HybridThe 2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid is an intensely busy machine. There’s nothing raw or visceral, two words nearly synonymous with Porsche, about this four-door hypercar, and yet it feels every bit the flagship it is intended to be. After on- and off-track drives around Victoria, British Columbia, it has forced us to rethink our...

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