2012 GEMBALLA TORNADO DESIGN

2012 Gemballa Tornado

There are few places better to do as well as the Top Marques show in Monaco. Manual of Monaco this year featuring an impressive variety of exotic cars, packed close, and the first time in the closed part of a street course used for the Monaco Grand Prix, which was available to manufacturers and customers interested in test drive.

Among the early days of the year was the Porsche Cayenne-based Tornado, made by Gemballa that its new product the first time since the adoption of its eponymous founder mysterious. With the Panamera based Mistral, Tornado was scheduled to be available for test drive around the iconic Rascasse the corner of the marina in Monte Carlo, but that did not quite get there. Not because of a problem in transit or a mechanical problem to prevent it from starting or something similar, but because an unnamed Arab sheik seized it before everyone could get their hands on it . Only 16 seconds after the doors opened, organizers said. Think it was good conditions on a funding agreement?

2012 Gemballa Tornado INTERIOR

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2012 Gemballa Tornado

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Death is an ominous shadow to cast over a company. All the more so when the death in question was not, as the case were, from natural causes. But in the wake of Uwe Gemballa's passing, the company that bears his name appears to be emerging from that shadow, creating the beast of a machine seen here.

2011 Gemballa Tornado

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2011 Gemballa Tornado

So far all that's been released about the new Gemballa Tornado are the images you see here and scarce few details. It's based on the 2011 Porsche Cayenne, and as you can tell, replaces many of the body panels with carbon fiber. Uwe Gemballa's successor, Andreas Schwarz, points out that unlike other aftermarket body kits, the composite panels on the Tornado replace the steel ones on the stock Cayenne instead of simply applying them on top. And an aggressive-looking job they've done of it, integrating gigantic air ducts, LED running lights, a significantly wider track and restyled taillights, all in a high-contrast treatment while shaving a good 150 pounds off the big sport ute's curb weight.

Further details on the interior still under development and the engine – tipped to produce some 700 horsepower with a Stage 2 turbo kit – are expected to follow. As will pricing, which promises to be just as astronomical as that horsepower figure, with only 30 examples slated for production.

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