Gemballa is back in Geneva this year tuning Porsches. The tuner's lineup includes custom takes on the 911, Panamera,
and Carrera GT. The big news is what Gemballa calls the Avalanche.
It's based on the latest 911 Turbo, but upgrades in the most outlandish of
style.
Decked out in purple, the Gemballa Avalance wears
new wide bodywork made entirely out of carbon fiber, broadening the Turbo's
track by nearly two and a half inches at the front and four inches at the rear
to house 21-inch wheels.
Enhanced aerodynamics come along with those beefy
fenders, but the real magic can be found in the engine bay, where Gemball's
technicians have extracted 820 horsepower from the 3.8-liter twin-turbo
flat-six. Performance figures, have not yet been released.
Mistrale is what Gemballa calls its take on the
Panamera, which features a comprehensive new aero kit and a suspension dropped
by an inch and a half, hooked up to 22-inch forged alloys jam-packed with brake
discs. The tuner even found time to extract more juice from the 4.8-liter
twin-turbo V8 – almost 50 percent more, in fact – to produce 745 hp for a 3.2-second
0-62 time and a 210-mph top speed.
Last but certainly not least is the Mirage GT Carbon
Edition. Based on the Porsche Carrera GT, it's cloaked entirely in carbon fiber. But the modifications go much further than that. The
5.7-liter V10 has been retuned to deliver 670 hp, the suspension has been
upgraded with height-adjustable coil-over shocks, and the wheels replaced with
fresh forged units. Lacking the Panamera's all-wheel traction, it takes this
latest Mirage 3.7 seconds to reach 62 as it rockets to 208 mph.
Naturally all three feature extensively upgraded
interiors as well, and the sight of the three of them together on Gemballa's
show stand is sure to catch an eye or two – even amidst all the enticing metal
(and carbon) on display at the Swiss expo.