The Porsche Panamera is Porsche's first commercial attempt in creating a 4-door luxury sports car. Competing with the Maserati Quattroporte or the Aston Martin Rapide, the Panamera is considered by many as the natural successor of the Porsche 989, a 4-door concept car created by Porsche in the late 1980's, which unfortunately never went into production (only one was built). However, many Porsche purists criticized this luxury car when it was revealed , just like they did when the Cayenne SUV was launched. According to them, Porsche are deviating from their roots by creating this type of car, which is completely different from their usual two-door, rear engined sports car. Still, sales have been quite positive.
Powered by a 4.8-liter V8 twin turbo engine, the Panamera Turbo develops 500 hp and is capable of reaching 303 km/h, which is impressive since the car weighs more than 1800 kilograms. Its luxury interior, front engine, rear-wheel drive (four-wheel drive in some models), and three different types of gearboxes (6-speed manual, 7-speed ZF PDK dual clutch or 8-speed Aisin Tiptronic S) make the Porsche Panamera Turbo a sight to behold on the road. After being previously available as a top-up gift, this luxury car is now available to all World players in the car lot for 3000 Speedboost.
All Nissan 350Z temporarily retired
In other news, the dev. team decided to temporarily retire all Nissan 350Z (Z33) cars for retuning. According to World's Facebook page, these cars will be re-released shortly.