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2025 Porsche Panamera GTS Is a Family Car That Thinks It's a Sports Car
The GTS is a looker and a goer, but a stiff ride is at odds with its mission as a family car.
It's hard to be a middle child, especially in the Porsche family. The older siblings, like 911, 718, and Cayenne have clear-cut tasks. They're athletic and racy, or in the latter's case mature—focused on the family. The younger ones, Macan and Taycan are bold and experimental, trying new things, unburdened by legacy. Then there's Panamera, neither an SUV nor a sports coupe, charming but awkward, clever but hard to pin down. As the Panamera approaches college age, you know it's going to have trouble picking a major.
Is it a physicist? A psychologist? A jock?
For 2025, the Panamera tries out a variety of subjects, with several revised hybrids including the Turbo S E-Hybrid, which is aiming for valedictorian, and the internal-combustion-only Panamera GTS, which is going straight for the gymnasium—maybe with a minor in music. It has a hearty set of lungs singing that twin-turbo V-8 fight song.
We'll start there, because the GTS gets straight as an arrow when it comes to its powerplant. Beneath the Panamera's appealing froggy face—made even more amphibian by our test car's optional Oak Green Metallic Neo paint ($2980)—is the 4.0-liter V-8 from the latest Panamera Turbo E-Hybrid with two single-scroll turbochargers rather than twin-scroll snails of the previous version and with higher combustion chamber pressure, both changes we believe were done for emissions reasons. On the performance side, the updated V-8 now corrals 20 more horses than it did in the 2023 GTS for a total of 493 horsepower and 486 pound-feet of torque. Porsche says it drops a tenth of a second in the 60 mph sprint, which it can now do in a claimed 3.6 seconds and will gain 2 mph at the very top end, with a promised top speed of 188 mph on summer tires. For reference, we reached 60 mph with a 2021 GTS in 3.2 clicks. We'll update with Car and Driver numbers when we get a chance to take the GTS to our test track, but in the meantime we can report that the eight-speed dual-clutch transmission snaps off shifts without hesitation, and the 2025 GTS has no trouble making objects in the the rearview mirror disappear in a hurry. It does so with fanfare too, the sport exhaust system amplifying its trumpet blasts and bass-drum cracks through four dark bronze exhaust tips.
The GTS gets several visual identifiers to set it apart from the hybrid and base models. Blacked-out details on the nose, headlights, body trim, and badging give it a chic exterior. Red brake calipers (six-piston front and four-piston rear) behind the 21-inch Anthracite Grey Turbo S center-lock wheels perform the same function as the bottom of a Louboutin heel in terms of flash, clamping down on cross-drilled iron rotors to bring the Panamera to a quick halt. Porsche offers carbon-ceramic rotors for an extra $8960.
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2025 Porsche Panamera GTS Is a Family Car That Thinks It's a Sports Car
The GTS is a looker and a goer, but a stiff ride is at odds with its mission as a family car.
It's hard to be a middle child, especially in the Porsche family. The older siblings, like 911, 718, and Cayenne have clear-cut tasks. They're athletic and racy, or in the latter's case mature—focused on the family. The younger ones, Macan and Taycan are bold and experimental, trying new things, unburdened by legacy. Then there's Panamera, neither an SUV nor a sports coupe, charming but awkward, clever but hard to pin down. As the Panamera approaches college age, you know it's going to have trouble picking a major.
Is it a physicist? A psychologist? A jock?
For 2025, the Panamera tries out a variety of subjects, with several revised hybrids including the Turbo S E-Hybrid, which is aiming for valedictorian, and the internal-combustion-only Panamera GTS, which is going straight for the gymnasium—maybe with a minor in music. It has a hearty set of lungs singing that twin-turbo V-8 fight song.
We'll start there, because the GTS gets straight as an arrow when it comes to its powerplant. Beneath the Panamera's appealing froggy face—made even more amphibian by our test car's optional Oak Green Metallic Neo paint ($2980)—is the 4.0-liter V-8 from the latest Panamera Turbo E-Hybrid with two single-scroll turbochargers rather than twin-scroll snails of the previous version and with higher combustion chamber pressure, both changes we believe were done for emissions reasons. On the performance side, the updated V-8 now corrals 20 more horses than it did in the 2023 GTS for a total of 493 horsepower and 486 pound-feet of torque. Porsche says it drops a tenth of a second in the 60 mph sprint, which it can now do in a claimed 3.6 seconds and will gain 2 mph at the very top end, with a promised top speed of 188 mph on summer tires. For reference, we reached 60 mph with a 2021 GTS in 3.2 clicks. We'll update with Car and Driver numbers when we get a chance to take the GTS to our test track, but in the meantime we can report that the eight-speed dual-clutch transmission snaps off shifts without hesitation, and the 2025 GTS has no trouble making objects in the the rearview mirror disappear in a hurry. It does so with fanfare too, the sport exhaust system amplifying its trumpet blasts and bass-drum cracks through four dark bronze exhaust tips.
The GTS gets several visual identifiers to set it apart from the hybrid and base models. Blacked-out details on the nose, headlights, body trim, and badging give it a chic exterior. Red brake calipers (six-piston front and four-piston rear) behind the 21-inch Anthracite Grey Turbo S center-lock wheels perform the same function as the bottom of a Louboutin heel in terms of flash, clamping down on cross-drilled iron rotors to bring the Panamera to a quick halt. Porsche offers carbon-ceramic rotors for an extra $8960.
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