Updated on October 31, 2016
First Photos! 2017 Porsche Panamera and Revised Hyundai Santa Cruz!
Most any automotive website or publication can bring you clear, vivid photographs of future vehicles, but only Parksplug features the very latest blurry, distorted spy photos.
Shown here is a prototype of the 2017 Porsche Panamera, which besides being noticeably sleeker than the current model, will also be available as a two-door for the first time.
The Panamera switches platforms from whatever it sat on before to Volkswagen’s ubiquitous MPUEGTWM (Modular Platform Underpinning Every Goddamn Thing We Make) platform, which it will share with everything in VW Group’s lineup except the Škoda Yeti and 2017 Bentley Flying Spud.
Hyundai Santa Cruz will be a stakebed truck
Hyundai has been telling anyone who will listen that it plans to introduce a truck to the U.S. market.
We assumed they meant a pickup truck, but this photograph, taken by Parksplug photographer Knucklebud Van Hool, indicates the Santa Cruz will be a stakebed (or “stacked” as spellcheck prefers).
We asked Hyundai spokesperson Onix Lumpkin why the company chose a stakebed over a pickup. He replied, “Did you mean a stacked?”