But the big news is the optional-for-hybrid-models Porsche Active Ride, a fully active system with a motor pump unit at each corner of the car that pumps fluid in and out of the damper. This allows Porsche to put force into the suspension, and so the Active Ride dampers are charged with controlling pitch, dive, roll, and ride height in addition to their normal duties. When set to Normal mode, there’s a driver-selectable setting for Active Ride that reduces pitch and dive to almost nothing, and another mode which has the car lean into the corners, like a motorcycle.
Porsche’s “Active Ride” sounds just like Mercedes “Active Body Control”. Even the lean into corners function is already a feature of some Mercedes ABC cars that Mercedes calls “Active Curve Tilting”.
Did you really expect them to do something on their own? They are the Apple of the car world, copying BMW and Mercedes for decades and selling it for three times the price.
Whenever they do something unique, it ends up worse than the competitors see 911.
I don’t know if you’re trolling or what, but I think perhaps you mistook my comment for a diss at Porsche. But that wasn’t my intention, I was just making an observation. Your criticism of Porsche for using another company’s technology is just bizarre.
As of the time of my comment, you’re the only person in this thread discussing the actual car. Everyone else is just talking about the styling. I agree the system sounds just like Mercedes’. One thing that stood out to me is that the air suspension is only 2 chamber. The second generation Panamera was co-developed with the current Bentley Continental GT and Flying Spur, and both of those use 3 chamber air suspension, so I’d have expected the Panamera to use the same system. But Active Ride should go a long way toward increasing the comfort.
Porsche’s “Active Ride” sounds just like Mercedes “Active Body Control”. Even the lean into corners function is already a feature of some Mercedes ABC cars that Mercedes calls “Active Curve Tilting”.
Did you really expect them to do something on their own? They are the Apple of the car world, copying BMW and Mercedes for decades and selling it for three times the price.
Whenever they do something unique, it ends up worse than the competitors see 911.
What an asinine comment.
I don’t know if you’re trolling or what, but I think perhaps you mistook my comment for a diss at Porsche. But that wasn’t my intention, I was just making an observation. Your criticism of Porsche for using another company’s technology is just bizarre.
As of the time of my comment, you’re the only person in this thread discussing the actual car. Everyone else is just talking about the styling. I agree the system sounds just like Mercedes’. One thing that stood out to me is that the air suspension is only 2 chamber. The second generation Panamera was co-developed with the current Bentley Continental GT and Flying Spur, and both of those use 3 chamber air suspension, so I’d have expected the Panamera to use the same system. But Active Ride should go a long way toward increasing the comfort.