All geared up to be launched in 2009, the luxury sedan is front- engined. It has rear wheel drive, four doors and is suited to seat four people.Critics are talking of it as the counterfeit of Austin maxi. Few have also gone to the extent of saying that the car is an  egg on the face of automotive designing.

It has a hybrid feeling of a coupe and a sedan and though it?s exactly what the purists might puke at; the car is making waves even before hitting the showrooms.

Succeeding porsche928, the car is going to compete with Maserati, Lamborghini and Benz.

Panameras will use an engine identical to Cayenne. This would imply a 450 bhp turbo and a 4500 cc engine. Rumor mils has it that the car  will be out of the Volkswagen Phaeton platform straight from Hannover. Now this automatically adds to the buying lure.