What's Wrong With This Picture: The Most Interesting Tuned Cayenne In World Edition

Edward Niedermeyer
by Edward Niedermeyer

What does it take for a tuned Porsche Cayenne to be featured at TTAC? It must be nothing less than the most interesting tuned Cayenne in the world. And your eyes don’t deceive you… that’s exactly what you’re looking at. The Eterniti Hemera may or may not have advantages relative to the competition from Mansory, Ruf, Gemballa et al, but its story beats all of them (with the possible exception of Gemballa, er, hollow. Eterniti burst onto the scene when a Twitter squatter managed to spread all kinds of speculation about the company, including that it would use licensed RedBull F1 technology, adding to rampant speculation that the company was somehow associated with Nissan’s Infiniti brand. Of course Bertel Schmitt tracked down the truth, and even though Porsche no longer associates itself with its former dealer and Eterniti founder Kenny Chen, Bertel could have told you nearly a month ago that the Hemera would be a tuned Cayenne. So, though this glorified bodykit of a car may seem like something of a letdown, its strange social-media-parable storyline makes it… the most interesting tuned Cayenne in the world.


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  • StevenJJ StevenJJ on Sep 11, 2011

    From one VAG to another... Seat Leon with an OEM kit the name of which I cannot remember. http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9384/sportsstylingkitforseat.jpg

  • Fabriced28 Fabriced28 on Sep 12, 2011

    There is a real lack of imagination from this tuner, as they steal their name from Infiniti, and the name of their "creation" from a small French manufacturer, that produces the PGO Hemera, a small sportscar. By the way, that last car is a lot more interesting than this Cayenne... it comes from a 356 replica builder that got into an argument with Porsche, and decided to strongly modernize its replica as a consequence, creating something quite outside the box.

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  • Tassos Isn't this just a Golf Wagon with better styling and interior?I still cannot get used to the fact how worthless the $ has become compared to even 8 years ago, when I was able to buy far superior and more powerful cars than this little POS for.... 1/3rd less, both from a dealer, as good as new, and with free warranties. Oh, and they were not 15 year olds like this geezer, but 8 and 9 year olds instead.
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