Porsche Panamera S Hybrid and 911 Carrera take awards in Challenge Bibendum Inter-city Rally
20 May 2011
The Porsche Panamera S Hybrid with its parallel full hybrid drive (earlier post) has won the combustion engine driven production vehicle category in the Inter-city Passenger Car Rally at the eleventh Michelin Challenge Bibendum, an international forum for sustainable mobility being staged this year in Berlin. Second place was taken by a 911 Carrera with a conventional combustion engine.
The two Porsche models were competing against 14 other contestants in the 300 kilometers or so long Intercity Rally. This category judges both vehicles with conventional diesel and gasoline engines as well as hybrid and plug-in hybrid models. Acceleration and lap time on a handling course were measured as well as fuel consumption. There were also a number of regularity tests during the 300-kilometer (186-mile) rally southwest of Berlin.
With CO2 emissions of 159 g/km the 380 hp (279 kW) Panamera S Hybrid has the lowest emissions of any model in the entire Porsche range. That equates to fuel consumption of 6.8 L/100 km (35 mpg US) based on the NEDC. These values are achieved with optimized rolling resistance Michelin tires, available as an option. With the standard tires, the new Porsche hybrid model’s fuel consumption is 7.1 L/100 km (33 mpg US) based on the NEDC, equating to 167 g/km CO2.
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