---
title: "Gemballa Avalanche is a Horribly Desecrated Porsche 911 Turbo"
description: "Gemballa whacks another helpless Porsche with an ugly stick."
date: "2017-02-23"
modified: "2017-02-23"
authors:
  - name: "Christian Gilbertsen"
    job_title: "Native Projects Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/christian-gilbertsen"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/7836/gemballa-avalanche-is-a-horribly-desecrated-porsche-911-turbo"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Porsche News"
tags:
  - "911"
  - "Avalanche"
  - "Coupe"
  - "Gemballa"
  - "Geneva Motor Show"
  - "luxury"
  - "porsche"
  - "sports car"
---

# Gemballa Avalanche is a Horribly Desecrated Porsche 911 Turbo

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/02/gemballa_avalanche_teaser_1.jpg>)
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The monstrosity you're looking at is Gemballa's newest model, which the German tuning house calls the Avalanche. Based off the 991-generation 911 Turbo, Gemballa has upped the Turbo's already-monumental power to nearly 810 horsepower and 516 lb-ft. of torque, which, arguably, should make it fast enough for bystanders to barely notice it. Given its retina-burning, Barney-like hue, however, it's unlikely they'll miss it. What a shame.

Apart from the power increase, Gemballa has given the Turbo-based Avalanche an "[extroverted exterior design](<https://www.gemballa.com/en/company/news/320-pr-en/pr-en-2017/1811-third-generation-avalanche>)," which is certainly one way to describe it. Starting at the front of the car, the front fascia is clad in carbon fiber, there's new teardrop-shaped metalwork underneath the headlights, and a questionable carbon fiber power dome/shaker hood-looking object that juts out incongruously from the rest of the front hood design.

At the rear, a series of *three* spoilers that would look more appropriate on a military aircraft sit on top of a bulbous rear bumper assembly, which is cloaked in honeycomb grills—hey, more power means more heat. Four exhaust pipes that resemble nuclear missile silos are situated above a massive carbon fiber fuser.

Gemballa's CEO, Steffen Korbach, claims that both the Avalance and the company's other new model, the GTR 780 EVO-R—both of which will debut at the Geneva Motor Show—will set records. Funny, we didn't realize there was a record for "biggest waste of a perfectly good car."

![message-editor%2F1487804600138-gemballa\_avalanche\_teaser\_2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1487804600138-gemballa_avalanche_teaser_2.jpg>)
**Gemballa**

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