It's true, somewhere underneath all that muscle lies a good old Porsche Cayenne. This contraption is a by-the-book case of turning an SUV into a sports car, chop-shop style. The modifications made to the GTS version it's based on would require pages and pages of writing to uncover them all. It is enough to say that no part of the Cayenne GTS' body escaped the rage of Gemballa's team.
The really exciting modifications of this nightmare car can be found under the hood. While for some of you (and of us here at autoevolution) the looks are subject to debate, there's no arguing the mechanical achievements of the Porsche tuner.
The frightening Tornado GTS hides a monster of an engine, that fully embodies the number in the car's name. 750 stands for horsepower, every one of them squeezed out of the 4.8l V8 powerplant. Well, actually not a 4.8l engine, but rather a 5.0l one. This is the basic modification made by Gemballa to the series engine.
This increase in displacement, backed up by the fortified forged pistons, special connecting rods and racing turbochargers makes Tornado's troop be almost double the size of the series engine, whose 405 horsepower now seem like a joke.
The increased temperature under which the engine is forced to operate is managed via an air intercooler with a 90 percent larger cooling area than a regular one. All of the Tornado's new components are adjusted with the help of new engine electronics maps, to make Tornado's 1,050 Nm of torque engine propel the car from naught to sixty in 4.3 seconds (as a comparison, the Corvette ZR1 Mantide race car is only 1.1 seconds faster). The top speed of the Gemballa GTS is 300 km/hour (186 mph), the equivalent of an F3 category Tornado.
Unfortunately, the differences between the Tornado and the series Cayenne GTS don't stop here. Only 50 units of the 750 GTS will be built and they will be sold at a starting price of 400,000 euros (MSRP price for the series GTS is 78,000 euros, or 94,000 euros for the PD Edition 3 version). And for some reason it's a right hand drive...
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