Tuner Tuesdays: DC Star two-door Cayenne
Has the four-door Porsche SUV gone from quirky to commonplace as they pop up in every parking lot these days? A custom coachbuilt two-door Cayenne just might fit the bill...a $375,000 bill, to be specific.
DC Design, the Indian design house Aston Martin used to develop the beautiful V8 Vantage, coachbuilds the unique DC Star, based on the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S. Leaving the mechanicals in-tact, DC shapes a custom body and chops off the rear doors. Inside they've lined the cabin with Alcantara and special wood or aluminum trim, crafted a new center console with a 15" display and hooked it all up to a Mac Mini.
This car definitely gives Rinspeed a run for their money as the quirkiest of Porsche tuners.
[Source: Motor Authority]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
fizzandpop 4:38PM (10/10/2006)
My eyes! My eyes! I don't know where to start. Forunately the site kept crashing my browser, so I wasn't scarred any further. Porsche Gremlin anyone? That beltline is like walking around with a crease down the front of your jeans. It looks slightly amphibious.
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review cars 4:45PM (10/10/2006)
Yeah, the car looks awesome !
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jeff 4:53PM (10/10/2006)
If that body crease were larger and turned up into fins towards the rear of the vehicle it could pass as the SUV batmobile. Especially if those grill lines looked a little more like fangs.
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rwdmtparkingonly 4:56PM (10/10/2006)
Jeez, aren't there any tuners making things than aren't painful to look at? Why did the post on the Southern pickup, which is actually kind of cool (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=116863#8), get taken down and replaced with this?
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David P Brown 6:41PM (10/10/2006)
Uh. What? over 400k for that? How about buy a tracker and a mansion!
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leo 8:11PM (10/10/2006)
wow! this proves that even Porsche makes ugly cars, adn this one is in a class of it's own in the UGLYNESS department
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Jordancars.net 6:38AM (10/11/2006)
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warren m 7:12AM (10/11/2006)
Well... DC Design have done something I never thought possible. They've managed to make the Cayenne even uglier. Thatis shocking!
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Fear 8:46AM (10/11/2006)
With two doors looks at oneself far more serious
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car-truck.net 9:53AM (10/11/2006)
Well, the design does look very Indian. Just think, if this is where all the engineering jobs are going what is Detroit going to come out with next?
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skooby 7:42AM (10/12/2006)
I need to puke...
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tariq 7:07AM (10/15/2006)
i AM puking
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Ash 10:08AM (11/21/2006)
I think the design is great. And for the folks above i can smell some burning asses. Guys firstly porsches arent made in detroit!!! its a freakin German machine. How dumb!!! can someone get. And Tariq in pakistan u guys dont even make a needle so shuttttt up!!!!!!! Jai Hind.
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