Gemballa
The Gemballa GmbH is a German automobile manufacturer and tuning specialist based in Leonberg. The company specializes in the performance improvement of Porsche cars and builds based on Porsche body shells own vehicles. Since 2012, vehicles of the racing brand McLaren regularly serve as a base for car creations in the model range of car tuning company.
History
1981, the company was founded under the name G- Topline Automotive GmbH & Co. KG Uwe Gemballa. Initially confined themselves to the incorporation of high-quality stereo systems and internal alterations to VW, Mercedes and Porsche vehicles. For the complete changes to the interior, all fixtures were mostly covered with Alcantara or leather. However, after later intervened the tags on the vehicles by increasing the performance of engines and changes the bodies heavily in technology, Mercedes and Porsche did not allow more to maintain their trademark on the vehicle. Gemballa was then officially recognized by the Federal Motor Vehicle Office as an automobile manufacturer.
In 2009, the Gemballa automotive GmbH & Co. KG decreed via a global sales network with nine sales offices and about 50 employees. After the company's founder, Uwe Gemballa was kidnapped in February 2010 in South Africa, was opened by order of February 22, 2010 by the District Court of Ludwigsburg insolvency proceedings over the assets of the company.
Andreas Schwarz acquired the brand and name rights of trademark Gemballa. The newly founded Gemballa GmbH subsequently acquired the assets of the unwound Old Society and took on August 16, 2010 The new business operations. CEO Andreas Schwarz.
On 25 January 2011, the IPO of Gemballa Holding SE on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange took place.
Vehicle models
Gemballa manufactures various vehicle models that are based on vehicles of the Porsche brand and the brand McLaren.
- Gemballa Avalanche, based on the Porsche 997
- Gemballa Tornado based on the Porsche Cayenne
- Gemballa GT Aero 1/2/3 based on the Porsche Cayenne
- Gemballa Mirage GT based on the Porsche Carrera GT
- Gemballa Mistrale based on the Porsche Panamera
- Gemballa GT based on the Porsche 991
- Gemballa GT based on the McLaren MP4 -12C
Company location of the Gemballa GmbH
The Gemballa vehicles are produced in Leonberg near Stuttgart. The Management and the exhibition space located in the Mollenbachstraße 17 in Leonberg, just off the A8 motorway.
Uwe Gemballa murder case
Since a business trip on 8 February 2010 after South Africa, the company's founder, Uwe Gemballa was missing. On September 28, 2010, the Gemballa suffocated, wrapped in plastic wrap, west of Pretoria found. New evidence refuting that Uwe Gemballa was involved in illegal activities. According to Stern, it means the opposite actually, that Uwe Gemballa rejected a deal of this nature and therefore had to die. In October, a 28- year-old confessed to the crime of Pretoria and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In November 2013, the suspected mastermind behind the Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir, who was allegedly involved in several cases of murder, was arrested in South Africa.