Car-B-Q: X-Series Grill by Porsche Design Studio
Porsche owners have long reveled in their ability to smoke the competition on track and street, but now Porschephiles can also leave their marque's mark on the backside of burgers, hotdogs and ribeyes. Grill marks, of course.Barbeques Galore and Porsche Design Studio have burned the midnight oil for two years while working on the the new X-Series Grill. Under its sleek, German-styled exterior lies some fairly hot grilling technology. Instead of the standard gas burners found in most grills, the X-Series uses four infrared burners that can crank out 52,000 BTUs using 50% less fuel with 80% fewer flare-ups. By our very rough shadetree estimates, that should be good for a zero to steak time of about 10 minutes. Or so.
With a starting sticker price of $5,999 Porsche Design's first grill comes with a motorized rotisserie, an LCD temp display with remote probe, and an insulated double-walled hood. Step up to the X-Series Island (above) for $8,499 for a stainless steel finish and concealed cupboards and gas cylinder storage.
All models are covered under a lifetime warranty for service, parts and repair. Also included is the right to brag to your numbers that you have a Porsche in your backyard.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Almo 8:14AM (5/20/2009)
Porsche Design really are the laziest and most unimaginative team in the world. From their cars to their novelty items to hard drives to this. Such blandness and boredom. I'm all for the "beauty in simplicity" ideal but their products... terrible!
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TigerMil 9:10AM (5/20/2009)
Products are just ok, it's the PRICES that are terrible. High prices do not a high quality product make. All it does is encourage Chinese knock-offs.
Greg 8:22AM (5/20/2009)
Boy that is one pretty piece of patio furniture! I can use it to store the lump charcoal for my Big Green Egg. I prefer a Porsche for spirited drives to the market for my choice of tatey meat for grilling.
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Greg 8:25AM (5/20/2009)
That would be tasty meat. If the meat is tatey it is clearly not fresh!
Motor_Yakuza 8:50AM (5/20/2009)
Porsche Design = stuff for snobs
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Alex Nunez 9:12AM (5/20/2009)
This looks like it would make the best piece of office furniture ever. "Lunch at my desk, everybody!"
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Alex 9:02AM (5/20/2009)
"Also included is the right to brag to your numbers that you have a Porsche in your backyard."
my numbers? i'm not sure how to communicate with them.
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TigerMil 9:08AM (5/20/2009)
numb neighbors?
aj121489 10:49AM (5/20/2009)
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TigerMil 9:08AM (5/20/2009)
So be sure you don't tell the local painter/handyman to paint the porch green....
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sparrk 9:12AM (5/20/2009)
this is a car site , not a barbeque site , why is this news here ? just because the design company name begins with Porsche doesn't mean it's car news.
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The Joker 9:40AM (5/20/2009)
Gas grill = fail. Charcoal or nothing!
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Erik 10:05AM (5/20/2009)
Does anyone actually buy this overpriced "Porsche Design" crap?
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alan 10:34AM (5/20/2009)
Now if the cooking grids had the Porsche logo worked into the metal for searing onto the meat---we'd have a true contender....HA!
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Mike 12:06PM (5/20/2009)
My $500 Weber works just fine and with my leftover money I can then buy a number of modifications to make my much less expensive car out run a Porsche at the track. Plus then I don't have to dress in all Porsche clothes while at the track and don't have to look like a toolbox.
Win, win, win
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Kevin 12:16PM (5/20/2009)
some of us like dressing up like a tool box, i do it for Ferrari, please keep your indecent comments to yourself.
Mike 1:20PM (5/20/2009)
No not a tool box, a toolbox, aka tool, aka a person who is laughed at. If you're on a pro race team it's one thing, if you're some rich d-nozzle who needs attention by wearing all expensive car make clothes to go with your car, it's another.
Typically the guys who have those cars who are fast, don't buy Porsche racing suits, shoes, GRILLES, etc. Those who parade around the paddock in their Porsche or Ferrari clothes are slow, can't drive, and are only there to brag how they are "race car drivers" at the Monday morning meeting. They're all about flash.
jmm 6:25PM (5/20/2009)
Peasants all. This thing is gorgeous and technologically superior to all competition. I'm ordering one today.
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Harrison 10:06PM (5/20/2009)
For six grand, I can buy the back end of a wrecked 911 and build a grill out of that.
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