24 April 2009 - 10:00
The ugliest ever?
Is this the most hideous car ever created? It just might be.
This is the Tornado 750, a work of such vile monstrosity from German tuning house Gemballa that we're not quite sure whether to feel sorry for it or smash it repeatedly with big sticks until we're certain it's dead.
Based, as you might have guessed, on the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, the Tornado 750 gets lots more power and lots less weight - usually a formula we approve of, but in this case we'll make an exception.
560kW of power, to be exact, thanks to a bored-out version of the Cayenne's 4.8-litre V8 armed with a race-spec turbocharger. Gemballa has shaved a whopping 250kg off the Cayenne's kerbweight - virtually all the grotesque bodywork is rendered in carbon fibre - which helps the Tornado nail the 0-100km/h run in a ridiculous 4.3 seconds, turning pedestrians to stone as it passes.
If you're tempted by the thought of a Tornado on your driveway - and we'll give you a hint here, you're really, really not tempted - it'll set you back five times the cost of a Cayenne Turbo.
In honesty, even if it cost a fiver and came with a complimentary copy of ‘How to Destroy Your Pig-Ugly SUV Without Anyone Knowing You Own It', we still wouldn't buy the Tornado.
So what do you think? Ugliest car ever? Suggestions please.
Now watch Hammond racing a (non-modified) Porsche Cayenne against a British army paratrooper:
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What is that??? The answer to TG's question is: it is just totally ugly, Porsche should just stick with making coupes and steer completely away from SUVs!!! Someone beg them to stop making these things PLEASE!!! Although tell them to get that engine and make a Porsche coupe instead! Maybe name it the GT-Z perhaps.
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I think its a totally cool SUV, in a Mad Max kinda way! Wheres the machine guns and over sized supercharger!
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at 04:50 am on 28 April 2009
To Be honest I like it but 2 problems. A: they could make the bonnet vent a little smaller and B: wheres the Porsche Logo??? lets hope they fitted off road tyres.
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