Eterniti Motor's $340k Coachbuilt Porsche Cayenne Artemis Spotted on the Road

Porsche Cayennes of any generation are a dime a dozen in cities these days, which is probably why companies like Eterniti Motors exist. The British start-up offers a very limited coachbuilt version of the German model named the Artemis that was recently captured on camera by an Autogespot forum poster in London.

When Eterniti presented the Artemis in 2012, it had said that it has received five orders for the heavily modified Cayenne from China, but evidently, it has started delivering cars in Europe as well.

The Artemis is based on the Cayenne Turbo with the 4.8-liter V8 engine tuned to deliver more than 600PS (+592hp) for a 0-100km/h (62mph) acceleration of 4.5 seconds and a top speed of over 290km/h (180mph).

Factory prices start from £210,000 (US$334,000 or €253,000) excluding taxes, with Eterniti producing only a few dozen cars each year.

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Fresh Spy Shots of 2015 Porsche Cayenne Mk2 Facelift

Having set the styling tone with the new Macan and the revised Panamera, Porsche now plans to transfer these latest design lessons to the facelifted version of the second-generation Cayenne (launched in 2010), which will likely break cover later this year wearing the 2015MY moniker.

The covered up front and rear bumpers, and the fake light decals on the head- and tail-lamps, tell us that Porsche's stylists will concentrate their exterior facelift efforts on these parts.

Our spies, who had the opportunity to get a closer look at the prototype pictured here, say that the outline of the true rear-light fixtures resembled those of the Macan.

On the mechanical front, we hear that the Cayman Cayenne S' naturally aspirated V8 with 395hp (400PS) will be retired and replaced with Porsche's new 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V6 gasoline engine pumping out 414hp (420PS) and 520 Nm (383.5 lb-ft), and that the Panamera S Hybrid E's 410hp V6 plug-in hybrid powertrain will premiere in the range, without excluding more updates to the series.

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Russian Mayhem When Pissed Off Drug Lord Crashes and Shoots Porsche Cayenne Driver

We know it's a cliché when they say real-life trumps movies, but this time it's true and it happened in Russia when, for unknown reasons, a previously convicted drug gangster attacked a man in a Porsche Cayenne.

The incident occurred in the city of Chelyabinsk on December 14 and was partially recorded on the dash-cam of the victim in the Porsche.

In the video, we see the unnamed driver of the Cayenne trying to run away from 47-year-old Stanislav Smelova who was riding a gunmetal grey-colored SUV. Smelova not only crashed the Porsche, but also fired his gun repeatedly at the driver wounding him and in the end, he smashed the Porsche's windscreen.

Luckily, the victim survived, but if a report from Russian news agency URA is true, then lawlessness will take a new meaning as Smelova could actually end up off the hook, and we quote a Google Translation of the report:

"And now attention! "Bully" S.V.Smelov may qualify for an amnesty on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Constitution. Previous convictions may be redeemed, if not previously freed on parole, then entitled to pardon, for the most, "hooligan" Article 213 of the Criminal Code. And then Tyutyunnikov can safely re-shoot a rifle safely on the streets."

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