{"id":74974,"date":"2009-12-10T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/10\/porsche-panamera-wins-inaugeral-bloomberg-car-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T19:29:00","slug":"porsche-panamera-wins-inaugural-bloomberg-car-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/74974","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Panamera wins inaugural Bloomberg<\/i> Car of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2010 Porsche Panamera Turbo – click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nNormally when a vehicle wins a car of the year award, its merit is so obvious that all you have to do to justify the selection is say, “just drive one.” However, with the Porsche Panamera, the excitement surrounding Porsche’s first ever four-door sports sedan\/car is so palpable all you must say is, “Just talk to someone that’s driven one.” The Panamera’s that <\/em>good. Our man Michael Harley’s still heaping praise upon the Turbo<\/a> in his sleep. In case you missed it – the Porsche Panamera rules.<\/p>\n

Then it comes as no surprise that Bloomberg News<\/em> has selected the different looking Panamera as its inaugural Car of the Year. Says Bloomberg’s auto-guy Jason H. Harper, “Like a lot of people I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect of the Panamera, but sometime between having a six-foot eight-inch buddy in the back seat and hauling into deep corners around the track, it became clear. It’s still a Porsche — just a really versatile one.” You will also no doubt remember that our colleagues over at Inside Line<\/em> recently stuck the Panamera at the tippity top<\/a> of their “Most Wanted” list. That’s a lot of praise, particularly for a vehicle that has been so divisive aesthetically. <\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/em> also selected several other winners including Best Green Car (Ford Fusion Hybrid<\/a>), Best Sports Car (Audi R8 5.2<\/a>), Best Economy Car (Mazda3<\/a>), Best Executive Sedan (Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG), Best People Mover and Family Car (Lincoln MKT EcoBoost<\/a>) and Best All-Around Sports Utility Vehicle (Land Rover LR4). All good choices by the way, though this author might have swapped the E63 AMG for the Porsche and figured a way to sneak in the Ford Shelby Mustang GT500<\/a>. Just sayin’. Press release after the jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: First Drive: 2010 Porsche Panamera<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Etc., Europe, Porsche, Luxury 2010 Porsche Panamera Turbo – click above for high-res image gallery Normally when a vehicle wins a car of the year award, its merit is so obvious that all you have to do to justify the selection is say, “just drive one.” However, with the Porsche Panamera, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}