2024 Porsche Panamera, HWA Evo: This Week’s Top Photos

The redesigned 2024 Porsche Panamera was revealed this week. Due in showrooms next spring, it will offer buyers more plug-in hybrid options, new suspension, and an interior with more screens.

Aston Martin’s Valkyrie hypercar is already as extreme as cars tend to get, but there’s an even more hardcore version known as the Valkyrie AMR Pro. It’s a track-only version based on a design for a stillborn Valkyrie LMH race car, and this week one of the 42 examples built hit the used market.

The Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II homologation special launched in 1990 in a limited run of 502 cars. It’s an icon of the era, and this week Germany’s HWA said it plans to build a modern homage using donor chassis.

A company by the name of ExoMod Concepts also builds homages to classic performance cars, this time using the platform of the modern Dodge Challenger. The Pennsylvania company’s latest creation is a homage to the iconic Dodge Charger Daytona.

Hyundai N has finally launched its first electric vehicle in the form of the Ioniq 5 N, and we tested one this week. The car isn’t simply a clone of the related Kia EV6 GT, as the Hyundai comes with more power and various N-developed functions, including one that simulates gear shifts for the feel of a gas powertrain.

Hyundai was out testing a prototype for a large electric SUV previewed by 2021’s Seven concept, and we have video footage. The SUV, which will likely go by the name Ioniq 7, is a sister vehicle to the Kia EV9, and possibly the upcoming flagship SUV from Genesis.

And finally, Zeekr, a Chinese EV brand with close links to Volvo and Polestar, launched its first sedan. Dubbed the 007, the sedan made its debut at the 2023 Guangzhou auto show and promises 0-60 mph times of less than three seconds.