From southern Europe and warmer climates last fall to the polar cold of northern Europe. The 2023 Porsche Panamera Facelift prototypes have been moved to winter testing, revealing new details of the second facelift facing the sports saloon.
Porsche’s electrification strategy has forced the brand to extend the commercial life of some of its key models before being transformed into fully electric models. The Panamera 2023 It is yet another one that will extend its life cycle in the market, and for which the German brand will offer a second facelift until the arrival of its replacement.
These new spy photos show a prototype of the sports saloon in extreme cold tests in northern Europe, in the vicinity of the base it maintains in the Arctic Circle, appearing a few months after the last sighting in the warmer temperatures of southern Europe. Practically in the same state of development, but showing some new and exposed details.
Spy photos Porsche Panamera Facelift 2023
A second facelift that will be very subtle and that you have to look at to appreciate the changes. The front bumper is new, now with a new open grille stripe just above the license plate, accompanied by a few air intakes at the ends of the larger fender, divided by two thin bars that go into the masts of the central grill. Porsche has been in charge of camouflaging this area especially, showing slightly part of the LED daytime running light, now pointing to a vertical shape, instead of the usual horizontal.
The same novelties will also carry over to the rear, with updated headlamps. The Panamera will also enhance the interior with a new sportier steering wheel, a more sophisticated infotainment system, new driving assistants and a more refined chassis.
The range of engines will also experience an improvement in efficiency, mainly. The German brand is forced to adopt 48 Volt technology which has yet to come to Porsche to cut CO2 emissions and fuel consumption figures on petrol versions, in addition to increase the battery capacity in the plug-in hybrid versions and the autonomy, so as not to be left out of the purchase aid in Germany. The revised Porsche Panamera Facelift to debut in the middle of this year, hitting the market in the second half as model 2023.