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Somewhere, a Porsche 997 is missing it's taillights.

Bentley Gets Porsche Envy

Bentley's new Continental Supersports ISR (also notable for having an extremely long 32 character name) appears to be emulating the world's most bloated Porsche GT3.

TechArt Cayenne

The widemouthed, surprised looking TechArt Porsche Cayenne bodykit looks to be inspired by Edvard Munch's "The Scream". Which is fitting, as this is the reaction that I had upon first setting eyes upon it. Why is it that every modified Cayenne has to be an orgy of gaping orifices?

Nein44

A Mad Max reject?

Asma Panamera takes your breath away

Asma - Asthma - get it?

Tuners of the Porsche Panamera have to tread very lightly in the styling department. The stock Panamera is already polarizing, so changes can have disastrous results.

The car you see here is the product of the Asma Design. Maybe the thought they could hide the car's awkward proportions by fitting as many "speed holes" as they could on the rear bumper. And then filling those holes with red LED lights.

Also, being in the market of modifying luxury cars, you would think they would have access to a better camera than the one on their cell phone.

2010 Porsche 911 Speedster Hauls (Gigantic) Ass

When I first saw this modern incarnation of the 1989 911 Speedster, I thought I was in love. The Fuchs style wheels, the matte black vinyl ahead of the rear wheel wells... Unfortunately, the girl's got a huge ass.

The view above shows just how different the proportions of the current 911 are from the original - the 997's butt in much higher, and capping off the rear seats in the Speedster style fairing only exaggerates it. And makes the Boxter Speedster look that much better.

Holy Wrecked Porsches, Batman!

Between the chopped steering wheel adorned with a tin foil bat, and rear fender extensions seemingly made of Styrofoam, this is truely a work of art.

C-Cactus, F-Fugly

Vive la France. This 2007 Citroen concept continues it’s recent tradition of introducing bloated organic autos for the show circuit and the road. The C-Cactus recipe includes equal parts of Geely Panda and Porky the Pig, with a bit of Porsche Cayenne thrown in for good measure. There’s word it’ll make it to production – thankfully Citroen doesn’t sell cars in North America.

Extreme Windshield Banners

Not sure who the maker of this kit is, but it follows the tried and true tradition of fitting the largest air intakes possible and filling them with numerous LED lights.

However, the bodykit pales in comparison to what I think is the largest windshield banner I've ever seen - it covers about 75% of the window surface. I've not sure what's on it - looks like a conversation between two men for whatever reason. How the driver can actually seen in front of him I don't know.

Mansory Panamera

Another case of Mansory doing what it does best - turning expensive cars into automotive cheese graters slathered in ungodly colours. This time it set it's eyes on the Porsche Panamera, which needs no help to achieve fugly status.

While I don't think the kit looks overly horrible (helps to reduce it's height a bit with the larger mouth up front and the carbon fibre hood), the shade of blue could probably damage your retinas. Combined with the yellow inside, riding in this car could probably give you seizures.

Attack of the Clones: RUF Stormster

The bloated widebody kit on the Cayenne, plus it's maniacally grinning grille, small 911 headlights and green paint reminds me horned "pacman" frog in defense mode. I'm not sure "angry frog" was the look they were going for.

Porsche Panamera

Yes, I'm talking down a Porsche. But I hoped that seeing a Panamera in person would change my opinion of how ungainly it looks. And although it looks better, sadly it's still ungainly in my eyes.

My beefs mainly centre around it's hindquarters although I do think it looks a bit too chunky up front for a Porsche). Starting with the side view, I really don't like how the roofline ends. I understand and respect the fact they want real people to fit inside, but you think it could have been achieve a bit more elegantly. Which could have been acheived changing the awkward appearance of the rear door windows - their bottom edge curves up in the rear portion, which exaggerates it's huge ass and the odd roofline. Plus the extra pillars in the rear windows muddy up the lines - I suppose the windows wouldn't go down much without them, but they don't look nice.


And then all the way out back you get about 5 feet of bumper with extremely high set tail lights. And the finicky detailing between them, with the random chrome strip and all the text. Had the taillights been set with their top edges in line with the chrome bar, I'd look so much better.

I also think it's look better with just "PORSCHE" or "Panamera S/Turbo" script on the rear. With both there it looks like a novel. I say bring back the old school full width tails with the "PORSCHE" text branded within, and then have the model name above.

Protoscar Porsche 911 Wagon

Design solutions company Protoscar recently developed this wagon varient of the Porsche 911, which is both ugly and inefficient. There is no rear view - the black "window" in the rear is just the front of a panel that pulls out for storage. But because the 911 has it's engine mounted in the rear, storage space doesn't have much height. I could bear with them ruining a beautiful car if they actually made it more usable...