Another Gemballa to drool over, the Avalanche GTR 800 EVO-R.

Now our drooling eyes have more to distract us during a slow day in the office. The new Gemballa Avalanche GTR 800 EVO-R has arrived. The styling on this new-age super car is beyond sleek, and passed sexy 10 miles back.

The GTR has some serious changes from anything you can expect to see at your local Porsche dealership. With 850bhp, you can’t expect anything less than a highly mutated racing machine. Now Porsche doesn’t manufacture this car, but they did all the groundwork with building and designing the original stock automobile, the 911 Turbo. Gemballa is a tuner company that modifies cars into super cars, and that’s exactly what they did with the GTR. The body is similar to the stock 911 Turbo, but a lot has been done nevertheless. Some engine mods have been performed, like building the engine to 3.8 liters, and harnessing much larger turbos on board. The exterior on the other hand, is what makes the heads turn.

With a new body kit, a lot has been changed. In the front we have a new front bumper that has been custom cut to have three open air ducts for cooler air, faster. Another modification that adds a lot more air intake is the carbon fiber vented hood. This allows more air to travel into the engine bay to keep things cooler, which is never a bad thing. The lights have all been switched out to get rid of the stock theme, and bring in some aftermarket pride. The carbon fiber wing that’s attached to what seems to be the stock spoiler is… almost audacious. It keeps true to most highly tuned and highly modified super cars, but some might find it to be a bit much. But hey, if it helps shave 0.237 seconds off your lap time, why not? The road is now blessed with the chance of being caressed with 4 Yokohama AVS Sport tires, wrapped around delicious black 19-inch alloy rims. The body of the car has been widened through having the new kit. This ride is sleek, wide, and low. In case you didn’t realize that you were going head to head with a 850bhp car when it blasted by you chirping gears at 9000rpms, the quad exhaust that’s hiding in the custom molded rear bumper might give you a small hint that… you’re not going to win. This car is about as aggressive as performance can be, and is rightfully branded with the Porsche name, even though Gemballa might have adopted it as an early child. They raised it right.

Gemballa has done aftermarket modifications to numerous Porsches throughout their history. They started in Stuggart, Germany in 1981. Some of their work includes the Mirage GT, and 645hp Modified Carrera GT, and a 957 Cayenne turbo with a nice 750bhp punch, called the GT 750 Aero 3. Gemballa modifies both interior and exterior elements. Their style is never flashy, but always in style. They use tasteful colors, not bright and in your face, but subtle. You wont see their cars a mile down the road, but you will try to catch up just to see what in world it possibly could be. Try. The most successful design modifications to stock cars always follow a certain rule: stay true to OEM. This doesn’t mean if you change the look, it’s a bad choice. This only means that you want to see what brand the car is, but at the same time make your mouth water at the amount of changes that have been done, aesthetically or performance. Gemballa always adheres to this rule when dealing with its Porsche overhauls. Their cars never look modified, but more like a new model that has just hit the streets. This GTR falls in line with its predecessors… until it passes them pushing through 6th gear closing in on the 200mph mark.

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The Porsche Pit, Unregistered

Beautiful 997. Gemballa did a great job. I love the choice of wheel finish.
Good article by the way,

Ryan

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2. Gemballa...one of the best!
Editor, Super Administrator

Gemballa knows what they're doing, that's for sure! They maintain the original,
tweaking it just enough to make it better.

Thanks for your comment! I'll let the author know you enjoyed the article.

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John Lipe, Unregistered

Yeh man, that flat finish is perfect. I love flat finished rims on track-ier cars because it gives it that, "hey i just finished doing 50 laps, I dont really care if my rims get covered in brake dust because they would still look sexy" feel.
Thanks for the comment,
-John

Posted 2008-06-12 20:05:23

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