Porsche Panamera

The Panamera is highly effective in mixing a sportscar with a luxury saloon. But what's with that look? It's kind of strange.

So it's a Porsche... It's a bad Porsche.

The first Panamera we saw was in Moscow. We were there for a test drive of the new Dacia in winter conditions and we saw on the streets the new Porsche Panamera. This happened an year ago.

So what's with that look?

This is a Porsche 911 stretched to maximum. It has four seats. Not a very comfortable car.

Is it luxurious? Let's not forget, luxury is something that Porsche can do. It may only have sports cars and an ignomious SUV in its back catalogue, but these days they're all finished to a standard that makes high-end limos look a bit shoddy in places.

The engine is a Porsche, so it gets 10/10 for technical design.

Two versions of Porsche's 4.8-litre V8 - normally aspirated with 400bhp and a turbo with 500bhp - and a 3.6-litre V6 diesel. The non-turbo V8 is so effortlessly and undramatically quick that you may as well just drive it straight to the cop shop and hand yourself in. The power in the Turbo is gigantic - at any revs. If any passenger is boring you, just press the accelerator and they'll quickly be silenced.

But bad, bad, bad for exterior design. Only a 4/10. Ugly car.

Dacia Logan

We, the guys from Auto Time team consider that the best, when you want a new car, is to try the local brands too.

Let’s take Germany as an example: many Germans buy Mercedes, BMW, Audi and even Opel and the common VW, local cars from their country production, very good cars.

A second example is France with its Renault and Peugeot cars.

As a conclusion we could say that in Romania there are a lot of Dacia on the streets. Are there?

The Romanians hate their local car brand and buy themselves foreign cars.

Let's look at a study of Dacia sales for the first half of 2010: a total of 181,826 cars delivered from wich 162,500 cars delivered to international markets. With a simple calculation we find that in Romania only 19,326 cars were delivered. Just over 10% of Dacia sales.

And Dacia sales are growing.

An Auto Time team member, who arrived in Moscow for a test drive was pleasantly surprised to see many Logan cars on Russian city streets.

Similarly, another member, who arrived on the roads of Italy was surprised to learn that the Italians want to buy the Dacia Logan.

This is demonstrated by the sales in the Peninsula. They reached 13,755 units in the first half of 2010.

But what makes the Dacia Logan to be sold so well?

The design, everyone agrees, has not emerged from the first. They had a few touches during the six years they were on the car market. Now it looks much better, with chrome exterior elements, redesigned mirrors, just a little more aerodynamic.

The interior space is taken to the extreme, three adults standing slightly on the back seats.



The Logan engine can't be bad, with engines from Renault (Formula 1 champion team).

In conclusion, Logan is a very good car for the daily livelihood of every person.

If you put to count the fact that it is one of the cheapest cars on the market, it concludes that the car is the ideal one.

Those from abroad have realized that. It is needed to be realized by Romanians too.

We at Auto Time adore this car, not just because the car is the national one, but also because it is a good economical car.



Price-quality ratio is close enough to give you back, it doesn't require many maintenance expenses and the car is quite comfortable.

We encourage Dacia Logan.

New Dacia Logan gets 3/10 for exterior design and 5/10 for technical design from the Auto Time Team.