Gembala Carrera GT
Gembala Carrera GT
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robbom3

Original Poster:

265 posts

254 months

Sunday 21st August 2005
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Anyone else see the write up on this in today's News of the World (before anyone starts, I only get it for the footie section)

Looks absolutely mental. They've taken the 5.7L V10, and Turbo'ed it to give 1000+BHP, and 250+ MPH.

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!

DucatiGary

7,765 posts

252 months

Sunday 21st August 2005
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Unfortunatly I prefer the original, to me they took it too far.

pib

1,200 posts

297 months

Sunday 21st August 2005
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Here is a link to Gembala USA with piccys.

www.gemballausa.com/view.asp?mod=CarreraGT&imid=CarreraGT_sz&nnim=3&view=1#

It's excessive but it will be interesting to hear how the chassis handles all that power. What the car has 600hp now? So 400 more isn't that much crazier. Send it to the ring.

DanH

12,287 posts

287 months

Sunday 21st August 2005
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Those pics are all CGI. It seems no one has been crazy enough to ruin their GT!

speedychrissie

2,994 posts

266 months

Sunday 21st August 2005
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have they actually built one yet? cos to me those pics seem extremely fake

i can understand the mentalitly that quite a lot of people have where they want to take a fast car and make it quiker but surely that is taking it too far isnt it?

chris

GuyR

2,536 posts

309 months

Sunday 21st August 2005
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Gemballa always produce fake pictures before they build the cars. I doubt a real one has been made.

Don

28,378 posts

311 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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Apparently a CAT D knackered one has been sold recently (for £180K!). Maybe one like that will get the Gemballa treatment.

Personally I prefer the original by some margin.

simonharrod911

6,792 posts

259 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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These cars are a handful with 600bhp. You would need to be an experienced competition driver to safely cope with the extra output the blown version offers.

roygarth

2,674 posts

275 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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Prefer the roof and rear window!

DucatiGary

7,765 posts

252 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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apparently 1.5 mil euros for the convertion.

so this wittles down the contenders even more.

you would need A, a GT as a donor, B someone silly enough to let em mod it, and C somone with 1.5mill euros to destroy one of the finest sports cars in the world today.

my opinion anyways.

Cheers

miracle

389 posts

261 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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That is stunning!

gt196

186 posts

252 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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Why have that, when you can buy a carrera GT 'replica' on Ebay for just 25k.....ummmmmmmm replicas. looks just as good i think.

sundeep

540 posts

265 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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although looks a bit too cartoon-like at the moment...



DucatiGary

7,765 posts

252 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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apparetly there is a "real" one being modded now.

in USA (trust the yanks)

still not a fan tbh

Murph7355

41,903 posts

283 months

Monday 22nd August 2005
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That's the first Gemballa I've seen that looks better than original. And quite a bit better to my eyes.

joe911

2,763 posts

262 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2005
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I think they've got a real cheek releasing a car and not having actually made one yet!

Isn't it as dodgy as selling real estate on the moon?

Also - I really don't like the looks - but each to their own.

anniesdad

14,589 posts

265 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2005
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sundeep said:
although looks a bit too cartoon-like at the moment...





That looks like a photoshopped press release picture of the CGT. Cheats!

Awesome car though.

flemke

23,437 posts

264 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2005
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From current issue of Motorsport, questions for Walter Rohrl:

Reader's question: "Jackie Stewart said that anyone who claimed to like the old Nurburgring was a 'liar'. As a 'Ring regular, what do you think?"

Rohrl: During the past four years I've been developing the Porsche Carrera GT and I've found for the first time that the Nordschleife is not always fun. The GT is too fast. If I test a 911 then it is fantastic on that track, but now I understand what Jackie meant. He was talking about Formula One. He is right. It is too crazy, even for me.

If the car is too fast for Walter, could it be not fast enough for Gemballa?

>> Edited by flemke on Tuesday 23 August 12:31

anniesdad

14,589 posts

265 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2005
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flemke said:
From current issue of Autocar, questions for Walter Rohrl:

Reader's question: "Jackie Stewart said that anyone who claimed to like the old Nurburgring was a 'liar'. As a 'Ring regular, what do you think?"

Rohrl: During the past four years I've been developing the Porsche Carrera GT and I've found for the first time that the Nordschleife is not always fun. The GT is too fast. If I test a 911 then it is fantastic on that track, but now I understand what Jackie meant. He was talking about Formula One. He is right. It is too crazy, even for me.

If the car is too fast for Walter, could it be not fast enough for Gemballa?



For the NS I would think that the Gemballa GT/Mirage is much too extreme and only a fool/extremely brave individual would try to extract the car's optimum time. I would think it was much better suited to straight line performance and in this respect would probably suit the US customers very well, say Wyclef Jean for example.

So I'm thinking that Rohrl is saying that c.400bhp is just about right for the NS?

You've driven the NS a number of times, what do you think?

>> Edited by anniesdad on Tuesday 23 August 11:45