Weekly Porsche Wrap

Production Panamera – We’ve seen our fair share of photos around, but this is an actual production trim Panamera. Pretty surreal, at least in my opinion, to be seeing these on the street. Kind of reminds me of some chop shop’s version of a stretch 911 limo. I’m definitely excited, but the jury is still out for me on this model. What does everyone else think? [Via CarAndDriver.com]

Porsche may get sued by hedge funds – There’s always lots of talk in the hedge fund world. The latest is that a number of hedge funds are considering suing Porsche over its involvement in the spike of Volkswagen stock that led to billions of dollars of losses for the funds. Personally, I think that’s a bunch of hooey. They lost money. Would THEY want to be sued over someone else losing money when they had significant gains? Of course not. [Via FT.com]

Yet another gold covered Porsche – I guess these are becoming more common place. This time, it’s in Russia of all places. More than 40 pounds of pure gold was used to cover the car. I guess I just have a hard time believing these are actually legit. If someone actually had one of these covered in real gold, you couldn’t drive it anywhere. Just makes no sense. Whether or not this particular one is real, I don’t know. It’s still butt ugly in my opinion. [Via EnglishRussia.com]

PCA members in Alabama invited to drive their Porsches to a Porsche commercial shoot – Now this would be kind of cool, in a Porsche geek-out sort of way. The Porsche Club of America’s Alabama region has asked members to drive their Porsches to Columbiana to watch the filming of a commercial a local advertising company hopes Porsche will buy and use to advertise the brand. Would be fun to watch the shoot, especially based on some of the recent Porsche commercials we’ve seen, plus neat to drive YOUR Porsche to the shoot. I’d do it if I were there. Probably too far to make it in the Giveaway Porsche by Saturday though. [Via ShelbyCountyReporter.com]