2009 Porsche Panamera 4.8 V8 Turbo

The car presented here is an early example of a first-generation (970) Panamera in Turbo guise. It was first registered in October 2009, and is currently showing a mileage of just over 32,000 miles.

That equates to a little over 2,000 miles a year across its life thus far – though slightly less than half of them have come in the last three years. It came to its current owner, its third, in June 2021 and he’s added a little over 12,000 miles to the clocks.

The service book – in its original Panamera wallet with a bundle of other original booklets - shows annual stamps over the last six years, with the car currently cared for by a Porsche specialist in Yorkshire. There’s also annual MOTs, with the most recent being April 2024 and covering the period to April 2025.

It’s kept in a generous, covered garage, and is only being moved on as the owner has another four-door grand tourer and is looking to replace the Panamera with another smaller Porsche.

The outside of the Panamera is finished in a classy “Yachting Blue”, and despite being close to 15 years old now it’s tough to find any evidence of age or even much use. Even the areas that usually draw stone chips – the nose, leading edge of the roof, and door mirrors – look to be free of any injury.

There’s some scuffs on the inside of the rear door shuts, following the lines of the door seals, and some marking underneath the front valance consistent with grounding the nose – such as on a speedbump or an aggressively sloped drive – but neither are readily visible..

The four 20-inch wheels are standard Porsche items, in a classic 2x7-spoke design and all look in good condition and free of kerbing. On close inspection there’s some small areas of blistering around the centre caps, but otherwise they’re blemish-free. Each wears a Michelin tyre fitted in September 2023, with plenty of tread remaining.

All the vehicle glass is in excellent condition, and there’s no evidence of fogging or cracks on the lighting – which is all in good working order. The complicated rear spoiler also operates as it should in a static test, as does the sliding sunroof.

On the inside the Panamera is a swathe of cream leather from end to end, and again it barely looks like it’s a 15-year old car.

All four of the seats are in excellent condition. The two in the rear look to have been barely occupied, but it’s tough to say that the front two are any more worn. Even the highest-traffic area of the driver’s side bolsters show very little evidence of use, and all the seat controls work just as they ought.

That extends to all of the other switches in the cabin – and there are many, as the 970 predates the vogue for sticking everything behind touchscreen menus – with everything we poked and prodded producing the desired function.

Around the rest of the cabin there’s cream carpets, covered with dark blue overmats – matching the blue contrast seatbelts and rear tonneau – and again it’s all in very good condition, with no signs of spills, scuffs, or stains.

The boot is generously sized, and lined with blue carpets throughout. This also looks to be free of any damage or much evidence that it’s been used at all.

As one of the original Panameras, this car sports the 4.8-litre V8 but, as the name suggests, with the assistance of twin turbos for close to 500hp.

It fires up without complaint on the first turn of the key, and settles to idle quickly. There’s no hunting for revs, and no fuss going up and down the range either.

At low manoeuvring speeds we couldn’t pick up any aberrant noises from any of the vehicle mechanicals, most importantly from the PDK gearbox. Given the owner’s fastidious maintenance and use, we’d have no question that it’s fine on the open road too.

Looking beneath the car there’s little evidence of any damage. A patch that looks like a fluid leak on one of the undertrays was also noted in a 2021 AA report on the car, but there’s nothing that looks recent and no leaks from anything mechanical that we can spot

The owner has spent a fair amount with a local independent Porsche specialist to keep the Panamera in ideal condition. There’s several four-figure invoices over the past few years, including major and minor servicing – most recently in December 2023.

Among the more significant expenditures are a replacement of the differential in December 2023, a new Porsche Communication Management (PCM) unit in May 2021, and a new battery only just back in May.

The current owner also paid for an extensive AA report before buying the car in 2021.

This is a fine example of the first-generation Panamera in its original form and right on the engine sweet-spot with the turbocharged V8 and all-wheel drive. It’s been diligently cared-for over the past three years by its most recent owner and presents pretty much as a new vehicle. You couldn’t want for more from a four-seat grand tourer.

We estimate this Porsche will reach anywhere between £19,000 - £24,000.

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