Lumma Design Porsche Panamera CLR 700GT

Hey look, you can make the Porsche Panamera look even worse. What we have here is something called the Lumma Design Porsche Panamera CLR 700GT. Lumma Design is, you guessed it, yet another tuner house. I have no real problems with tuners, but at this point I do have to say, why start with a Panamera in the first place?

Well, you could say that there's nothing wrong with building up a big sedan into some sort of tuner masterpiece, but is the Panamera really a sedan? Yeah, it's got four doors, but that whole trunk/tail end/hatchback area is wrong on a bunch of levels. Anyway, that's what Lumma Design decided to start with.

First off, this appears to be just a proposal (so there might be time to stop them). Lumma is a German firm with an apparent penchant for Porsches. What they decided to do was give the Panamera a wide body kit with a modified hood with air outlets straight out of a JDM aftermarket mag.

Lumma has also restyled the bumpers, added, or at least worked on, a rear diffuser that integrates quad tail pipes and a honking corpulent rear wing. Underneath the ham-fisted fender flairs are 22-inch alloy wheels (dubs, if you will) finished with black centers and polished silver rims. Lumma also added slotted side skirts to round off the cosmetic "upgrades".

Lumma has dropped the Panamera's ride height by a substantial 35 mm. But that's about it for performance figures. Everything else remains a mystery. No specs on what else they've done to the suspension. No mention of brake tweaks or exhaust mods. Or for that matter what, if anything, they've done to the mill under the hood. Perhaps the alphabet soup designation of CLR 700GT means they'll bump the displacement up to 7 liters?

Who can say for sure until Lumma says for sure? The whole deal has been termed "ultra-aggressive", but would be easier for me to term it ultra-belligerent. Sure, Lumma is a German firm, but I'd like to see someone take on a Maserati Quattroporte (as an example). Diving in to a Panamera seems like something you'd do on a dare. What, there's not enough you can do with a 911? How about the Cayman? That's a car that could use a good squeezing. But why even mess with a Panamera?

Source: CarScoop