by rmad
12. February 2009 23:51
When we were sitting around our (virtual) table brainstorming ideas for our official tuner/tuning houses week the usual supects were mentioned along with some lesser known names - AMG, Alpina, Schnitzer, RUF, Janspeed, Cobb, Irmscher etc but one name kept coming into my head - a company that takes a pile of Porsche bits and stuffs the lot under VW Transporters - TH Automotive.
Here's the deal: Tou take a new or nearly new T5 Transporter to the company's Berlin HQ and they break out the tape measure, grinder and welder and give you it back with a lot more attitude and some Porsche DNA in the form of a whole load of Porsche 996/997 Turbo goodies as well as your choice of extras including TV, DVD, Fax and a phone.
From the outside the stance, rims and shortened tailgate are the only indication that something is different, to the untrained eye the van does very little to give away it's 160mph+ potential.
The TH3 is their stretched version of the T5 crew cab which features a 50cm longer bed. Why? To carry a CG Quadster. A combination which should please any petrolhead.
Price? €145,000 for the basic model if you supply the van...I'm off to buy a lottery ticket.
PDF Brochure: http://www.thautomobile.de/Sonderausstattungsliste.pdf
Website: www.thautomobile.de
Bizarre four-wheeled bike thing: http://www.gg-technik.ch/
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