Marc Philipp Gemballa
Uwe Gemballa s son Marc has decided to follow in pop s footsteps and start a business hotting-up supercars. First up: an adventure sports take on the Porsche 911. The Martien is a 750-horsepower sand-flinger that encourages off-road shenanigans.
Marc Phillip Gemballa, the person and the company, wants to be clear that this new business entity is completely separate from Gemballa GmbH itself. Marc, now 27 years old, was just 16 when his father was murdered in South Africa in a gangland-style execution investigators suspect could have been linked to a money laundering operation. The company has been out of family hands ever since.
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The son of late Porsche tuner Uwe Gemballa has picked up where his father left off, revealing a completely bespoke off-road capable supercar named Marsien.
Inspired by the legendary Paris Dakar rally era, Marc Phillipp Gemballa’s Marsien utilises design characteristics from Alan Derosier’s Porsche 908 design study and most notably, the Porsche 959 Paris Dakar.
Originally named Project Sandbox, the 992-generation Porsche 911 Turbo S-based car was manufactured in Germany, and honed off-road through the Arabian desert. The full carbon-fibre body is raised 120mm above the tarmac in on-road mode, or can be lifted to a total of 250mm above the sand in off-road mode.
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