For millennia, sailors have named their ships after the women of their hearts — mothers, sisters, sweethearts, wives — and cultivated bonds with those vessels so deep they could easily be called kinship. So if you find yourself behind the wheel of a Porsche Panamera, murmuring sweet nothings to the dashboard console, don’t be alarmed — you’re simply obeying an impulse that has existed for centuries between men and the vehicles they love. Most companies, competing to hold on to elusive consumer bases, strive to engineer products that exceed expectations. But when you have a chrome-plated reputation like Porsche’s, customers tend to expect nothing less than perfection. Executive was invited to travel to Dubai last month to test drive Porsche’s newest release. The strongly contoured air intakes, wheel arches and sleek bonnet, the powerful shoulders over the rear wheels and the sweep of the roofline, quintessentially Porsche, leave little doubt
