MARSIEN / Marc Philipp Gemballa

SHARJAH ADVENTURE

Introducing The Marsien

Are you ready for the ultimate road & off road supercar? With only 40 being produced you will need to be faster than it’s 750hp to ensure you get one! Marc Philipp Gemballa is the 27-year-old entrepreneur son of the late German tuner Uwe Gemballa and although the Gemballa name is behind Marc Philipps creation, he’s quick to point out there is no association with the already existing Gemballa GmbH. That sorted, welcome to the Marsien. Take a Porsche 911 Turbo S and after a lot of very hard work, turn it into an all-carbon fibre, high-riding dunebashing 750bhp growling on-road-offroad monster. Recently launched Marc Philipp and his team headed to the tarmac and deserts of SHARJAH in the UAE, for testing and an awesome photoshoot. The perfect place to shakedown the car in the heat and dust of the UAE, where if it can survive here, it can survive anywhere - and it certainly did.

Spending two years in development has resulted in Marc Philipps‘ first project: with it’s timeless design and backbone credentials, it looks like the perfect cross-over between supercar and rally car, but still with all the comforts and practicality of a road car, blended with off road capabilities and featuring some of the latest cuttingedge technologies. When producing something as special as this, you never leave the design to chance and Marc Philipp knew the look of his vehicle was going to be as important as what was under the hood, and so Porsche aficionado Alan Derosier was brought in after Marc Philipp saw a sketch back in 2017 and made contact with Alan, and the rest as they say, is history. The Marsien was born.

Featuring a full carbon fibre body, with all exterior components produced in pure carbon fibre, designed for performance, lightweight and cooling the parts are manufactured by a leading German carbon fibre specialist, that also supplies OEM sportscar manufacturers as well as several Formula One teams.

The conversion comes with a full leather or Alcantara interior handcrafted with the highest quality of materials, equipped with a bespoke Carrera GT-inspired lifted carbon fibre middle console, as well as GT style door lashes, carbon fibre side sills, and further carbon fibre accents throughout the interior with the ability to full customisation.

For the engine, Marc Philipp Gemballa teamed up with legendary Porsche engine specialist RUF Automobile for the engine development of the Marsien. Ruf are well known for their Porsche engine expertise and had previously worked with Marc Phillip’s Father Uwe Gemballa on producing the powertrains for various vehicles in the 1980s.

The Ruf powered engine upgrade enables the six-cylinder boxer engine to deliver over 750 horsepower and 930 Newton meters of torque. For customers looking for even more power, there is a stage-2 power upgrade by RUF taking the engine up to 830 horsepower with enhanced VTG turbo chargers and a revised ECU mapping and transmission setting.

For the sound of the vehicle, the leading performance exhaust manufacturer Akrapovič has developed an entirely new titanium exhaust system exclusively for this project, focusing on a bespoke sound experience, light in weight and further increasing the power output of the RUF Automobile-upgraded boxer engine.

For the suspension leading suspension and chassis technology pioneer KW automotive were brought in. Together, the two companies have developed a bespoke suspension system, which has been exclusively created for the Marsien, featuring extensive changes to the chassis of the base vehicle including a completely new developed double wishbone front suspension setup equipped with KW solid piston damper technology featuring an intelligent active damper control as well as an adjustable ride height system for on and off road use. By the touch of a button, the adjustable ride height system enables an electronically controlled hydraulic lift increasing the ride height from Turbo S on road level up to an overall ground clearance of 250 mm, enabling the ultimate on and off road driving experience.

The Marsien comes with two specially designed forged aluminium wheel sets with centre locking system, running on Michelin Ultra High Performance (UHP) tyres for on road and All Terrain tyres for off road use.

The name ‘Marsien’ is derived from the word Martian, as it looked like it was testing on Mars due to the red sand of the Al Faya Desert of Sharjah, in the UAE, (and the overall spec is pretty out of this world too)…

Interested?

Limited to just 40 units, you will need to be fast.