Gemballa Porsche Tornado 750 GTS
Now this is how tuning companies need to modify their cars. I’m so sick of seeing a “tuning company” take a Ferrari F430, add a rear wing, a tuned ECU, a new exhaust and some new wheels, charge $200,000 over base price, and call it their own creation. While you may not like the look of the Porsche Cayenne Turbo-based Gemballa Tornado 750 GTS, you can’t deny that they did this right.
So Gemballa, a Porsche tuning company located about 12 miles from the Porsche plant in Stuttgart, Germany, took the Cayenne and gave it one helluva makeover. The extreme styling makes the otherwise rather homely Cayenne look much more like sports car, and at the very least, stands out among a crowd. Nearly every body panel has been changed, and their replacements are made solely from carbon fiber, which helped significantly in their weight reduction of over 550 lbs. The body not only helps with styling and weight, but is a higher-than-usual contributor to better aerodynamics and engine cooling. Lightweight 22-inch forged wheels round out the exterior changes.
But what about under the hood… Continue Reading…
