By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Built for covert appeal, a Porsche Panamera sports the camouflage paint scheme. Located in Ajman, UAE this Porsche has a very unique style that is a traditional marque of UAE builds. Flawless and unique, read more about the camouflage Porsche Panamera at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

Though you might want to check out this from the current issue of iMotor. It gives you the ability to re-spray the new Porsche Panamera. It’s worryingly addictive, and see how long you can resist the urge to write rude words on it! I myself made a harlequin attempt! I have seen a few camo ones in the office, too! Love to see people posting up their versions. Have a try!

For the past day or two there have been pictures of a Porsche Panamera Prototype popping up all over the net. The nearest I can tell is that they started on a Chinese automotive site (at least they watermarked them and took credit for them), they then got posted over at TeamSpeed.com and the linking took off from there. 

Forget about the fact that the Panamera is potentially both ugly and expensive, look at this interior.  I’m beyond loyal to Porsche, but even I’m having trouble coming to grips with this. All those buttons look like the Batmobile on steroids. 

The guys over at Autoblog think this interior is “caliente” and even go so far as to say it hearkens back to the days of the 993. I’m not one to throw stones, but in this case the target is just too big. I’m so shocked by their analogy, I can’t even come up with a witty response except to say, WHAT???

Look at the pictures below and you be the judge.

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Have you ever wondered how you’d fare if you encountered a pissed-off raptor? Because I know I have. So I was stoked to find this little quiz which determines what my chance of survival would be. At 39%, the results are hardly encouraging, but Jesus, raptors are vicious! Anyway, here’s the news:

• The General has announced that it will devote no funds to research and development until 2010, and I think this could actually be a step in the right direction. Why? Because it gives GM the perfect excuse to re-release some classics! Seriously, forget about R&D, bring back the ’64 Impala! Auto Week
• Pictures of Porsche’s new Panamera have surfaced, and they aren’t pretty. In fact, the cabin looks even uglier than the exterior, which is really saying something. Barf. World Car Fans
• Since the profit margin on fuel is actually pretty tiny, lots of gas stations are locking up their pumps and sticking to selling tune-ups and sodas. New York Times
• Automakers and Wall Street bankers—who are really just pieces of garbage assembled to resemble human beings—aren’t the only ones looking for a bailout. Now car dealers want some of the action. Automotive News
• One of CarDomain’s advertisers—you know, the folks who provide themoney to keep yours truly employed—wants your input. So if you love theblog and love CarDomain, or kind of like us, or even just love to hateus, we’d appreciate your opinion. Take this Survey 

Saturday evening, I was supposed to get to drive the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage. But just as I feared, my plane got delayed, and I wasn’t able to make it. Sometimes life just sucks. Look for Rob’s report later in the week. Anyway, here’s the news:

• Porsche is almost ready to unveil its Panamera. The Panamera section of its website is up and running, and there’s even an official teaser pic. Personally, I think the car is hideous, but I’m sure there will be plenty of Porsche faithful that will disagree. Auto Express
• Times are hard here in the United States, so much so that the General has decided to trim production of its Corvette. Some workers are going to lose their jobs as a result of the cuts, which makes bad news even worse. Motor Authority
• Ok, so I use the term "sexy" in regard to vehicles all the time, but that doesn’t mean that I think anyone should actually have sex with a car. And especially not in public. Yuck, yuck, yuck.  Jalopnik
• So the Ferrari-powered Rambler—the Ferrambo—is really cool, and I know that a lot of work went into it, but the idea that this car is worth half a million dollars is just ridiculous. CarScoop

John McCain doesn’t know how many houses he has, but that’s ok, because he has a staff to tell him about how many palatial pads he and his heiress wife own. But Obama is an elitist. Because he likes things other than iceberg lettuce in his salad. Makes sense to me. Anyway, here’s the news:

• The Porsche Panamera and the Aston Martin Rapide are going to be going head to head in the four door sports car market, but recently, they also competed in a more literal sense, as both high-octane four doors were lapping the ‘Ring at the same time. World Car Fans
• Ma Mopar is now offering in-car wireless internet, and as you’d expect, it isn’t cheap. Now that isn’t surprising. But this line totally caught me off guard: "You’ll pay almost $2,700 to read Autopia behind the wheel of your new 300." What? Should you really be reading and driving? Wired
• In case you were wondering, making a matchbox car is serious business. Check out all the steps involved in making a tiny GT-R. The New York Times
• Things aren’t going so well for Tata. Right now the company is considering walking away from a 350 million dollar plant because of violent protest which have been happening there. Hopefully Jag’s new owner can get the situation sorted out. Motor Authority

In my opinion, Maser’s four-door is already the best looking sedan on the road—sorry Jag—so the engineers didn’t make any major changes for the 2009 model. After all, why mess with perfection? And while I know that the Italian Stallion will definitely best Porsche’s forthcoming Panamera in the looks department, I can’t wait to see how the two machines compare on the track. If I had to bet now, I think I’d have to call it for the German, but that’s just a gut feeling. In a head-to-head match-up, which do you think would win? via World Car Fans

Doing a burnout or turning some donuts is one thing, but hot dogging in a 200 million dollar jumbo jet? That takes some serious balls. After taking delivery of a new Boeing 777, a pilot for Cathay Pacific buzzed the tower at Paine Field in Everett, Washington. What a bad-ass. Here’s the news:

• More spy shots of Porsche’s Panamera have surfaced, and this time the doors and truck are open. While the term ugly may be a bit of a stretch, let’s just put it this way: it’s no Quattroporte. World Car Fans
• Lamborghini’s Gallardo is getting a new name and a burlier powerplant. Styling changes will be minor, but the LP560/4 will come with 60 more horses under the hood. What do you have to do to get a test drive?  AutoWeek
• European regulators just crash tested a slew of pickups, and the results weren’t terribly encouraging. Who knew they even had pickups over there? CarScoop
• Talk about a surprise! Workers at American Axle & Manufacturing didn’t really like the idea of having their pay and benefits cut in half. Think upper management would take that deal? Freep

CarDomain’s brand-new marketing guy, Ryan, showed up for his first day of work with some candid shots of a Panamera test mule that his girlfriend Becca took on her iPhone over the weekend. Needless to say, we’re pretty stoked about our new hire already! The quad pipes and rear windbreak suggest this particular version is the Panamera Turbo—and it looks like it’s made it all the way from Georgia!

See the full gallery after the jump!

Yup, someone made the Cayanne even uglier! Now, the guys over at Porsche did their best to make the Cayanne hideous straight out of the box, and in my opinion, they did a great job. It’s even more awful than regular Porsches! But once the sickos of Stuttgart have a look at this Russian masterpiece, I think they’ll be scrambling back to the drawing board. Where do you even start with this thing? I mean, the grill alone makes me want to claw my eyes out, and I’m going to have a whole bunch of lunch beers to forget about the back. Yuck. While this is probably the horrid Porsche on the planet, something tells me the Panamera will make this monster look like Mila Jovovich.