A tent on top of a Porsche is a whole new luxury experience. Here’s how the sports car-maker looks to tickle both your right foot and your sense of adventure.
Some luxury hotels will pick you up from the airport in a Porsche; other luxury hotels are Porsches.
This is one of them. It’s called the Porsche Roof Tent Experience, and it’s an adventure of the sort we’d never have expected from the brand best known for corner-crushing sports cars.
Porsche pitches the Taycan Cross Turismo as more than just an electric sports car. It’s a wagon, for a start. It’s also lifted, wears rugged-looking plastic cladding around the arches and rockers, and comes with tires more suited to gravel than the Nurburgring racetrack.
Now, Porsche has designed two new rental car camping “experiences” to help you take the Taycan Cross Turismo and its rooftop tent there. On the curated tours, you’ll spend 3 days carving up German roads in either the Black Forest or the Rhine River’s wine country.
Taycan Cross Turismo Camper
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To make it perfectly clear Porsche is serious about the rough-road adventure capabilities of the Cross Turismo, the automaker has launched a new camping experience with a pair of new tours.
Two completely different adventures let you spend your days carving up German backroads and your nights sleeping on top of your Taycan.
For the tours, the two-person tent mounted to the top of the Taycan comes with blankets and pillows. Porsche will also provide other “outdoor equipment.”
It’s a bold move from Porsche, and not just because it’s making a luxury travel experience happen in a tent mounted to the roof of a car.
We’re not exactly sure that a large tent strapped to the roof of an EV is going to handle its best on high-speed German highways, like the Autobahn. Or when you’re carving up backroads. Then again, Porsche knows what it’s doing.
Black Forest Adventure Foray
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Rhine-Hesse Wine Ramble
Choose Your Own Porsche Adventure
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