Mark Zuckerberg signs up for tuning by customizing a Porsche Cayenne limousine

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta and founder of Facebook, has been the latest famous American to join the ‘tunning’. The businessman and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have two new four-wheeled “toys” in their garage. And yes, they are two tuned models, which no longer look like they did when they left the dealership the first day they set foot on the asphalt. Of course, it’s probably not what you expect when you read that anglicism that in the minds of many generations is associated with sports cars with racing spoilers, ground-grazing underbody and flashy vinyl. The generation Fast&FuriousTRUE?

Generational jokes aside, we recover the thread of the matter, which is none other than the collaboration between Mark Zuckerberg, Porsche and West Coast Customs to transform two units of two iconic models of the German brand: a Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT and a manual Porsche 911 GT3 Touring.

Apparently, as Mark Zuckerberg himself has confessed when bragging about new luxury cars, The businessman and his wife do not share the same automotive tastes. The solution to the problem is simple for pockets like those of the famous couple: buy a car for each one and customize them.

Specifically, Mark Zuckerberg has opted for one of the most desired sports cars on the market, the Porsche 911, surely the most popular model from the German factory. The CEO of Meta is a manual GT3 Touring model.

Without knowing the interior details of the change that West Coast Customs has subjected the car to – they have stated on their social networks that “let’s keep an eye on it” – the most striking thing about its exterior is that the couple has chosen the same paint, a metallic gray which is most likely one of the most discreet that the specialists from the popular Californian workshop have worked with, matching both cars.

Therefore, at first glance, the vehicle that seems to have undergone the most profound change after passing through the West Coast Customs workshops is the Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT, Priscilla Chan’s choice.

The workshop professionals have transformed into a kind of minivan, halfway between larger SUVs and minivans that was so popular at the end of the century and the beginning of this one in Spain, the powerful Porsche car. They have converted it, therefore, into a Cayenne limousine, since the main work has consisted of significantly extending the wheelbase, the distance between the front axle and the rear axle of the vehicle, to install minivan-style sliding doors. and leave inside a spacious cabin, like those found in the limousines that we all have in mind.

This space, yes, is somewhat smaller and, probably, with other types of comforts, more designed to give the car a family use, although we have not yet been able to see what Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s new tuned car looks like inside. —The couple met in 2003 in line for the bathroom at a party organized for the founder of Facebook by his classmates and friends from Harvard University.

Yes we know that The original price of the car exceeds 200,000 eurosand it will predictably have multiplied exponentially from the moment it has been delivered to its famous owners by West Coast Customs after converting it into something completely new and unique on the planet: the first Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT limousine, a car that maintains its 4.0-liter biturbo V8 engine capable of offering 659 HP.

The “new” car, whose original model costs more than 200,000 euros, is longer, like a limousine, includes electric sliding doors, and its interior space is much larger. However, under the hood it still maintains the 4.0-liter biturbo V8 engine from the Cayenne Turbo GT with no more and no less than 659 horsepower.

History of West Coast Customs

The workshop that Mark Zuckerberg has trusted to convert his two Porsches, the Cayenne Turbo GT and the 911 GT3, into two luxury cars personalized and tuned to his and his wife’s taste, is West Coast Customs.

Based in Los Angeles, the workshop became very popular in 2004when the series Pimp My Ride, in which his team tuned vehicles in front of the cameras, was successful on MTV.

This occurred 11 years after Ryan Friedling founded the car customization company in Orange County, also in California. He did so, according to West Coast Customs, with a $5,000 loan from his grandfather.

In 2004, with the success of the aforementioned television series, this workshop became the favorite of American celebrities: from the aforementioned Justin Bieber to, now, Mark Zuckerberg, they have hired its services, as have companies from the like Nintendo, Microsoft or Warner Brothers.

In short, there are no tuned cars more desired and popular than the designs that bear the signature of West Coast Customs.