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02 October 2009 - 12:00

Frying Pan’

Apologies for the grainy, rubbish quality of this picture, but we thought you'd want to see this one as quickly as possible.

This is a Porsche Panamera, modified by Germany's Lumma Design. They call it the CLR 700GT and it looks a little bit terrifying.

We've seen a few tuned Panameras before, but never as extreme as this. The CLR 700GT gets a huge, snouty new face, monster bodykit, 22-inch deep-dish alloys and a big rear wing.

That ‘700' refers to - yep, you guessed it - the power. Lumma has whacked up the Panamera's power to something around 700bhp (521kW), presumably with the aid of many turbos and big pipes and possibly rocket fuel.

The standard Panamera's big-arsed visuals haven't exactly received universal approval... what do you think of this one? 

Talking of the Panamera, here's an exclusive outtake from that Porsche versus Royal Mail race in Series 13: