TH Automobile TH2 RS (800HP 194 MPH VW Van)
From the February 2010 issue of EUROPEAN CAR
"Most of the German tuner cars that turned up at this year's Nardo event would give any enthusiast wet dreams, but the contender that raised my eyebrows the highest for its sheer ingenuity was a van.
I noticed the TH Automobile TH2 RS on the afternoon I arrived, when we assembled in one of the garages for a sandwhich. Cars taking part in the event are kept undercover in two adjoining garages overnight, and as I was standing around in one of them chatting with the tuners, I heard the familiar deep growl of a tuned Porsche Turbo exhaust.
I turned around expecting to see a sleek be-spoilered 911, but instead got an eyeful of Kermit green VW T5 bus backing into the garage. It was one of those situations where the brain either goes into overdrive or shuts down completely.
Mouths hung open as the green bus came to a halt. The driver moved over from the centrally positioned driver seat, opened the door and smiled as he got out.
Then he casually walked around to the other side and opened the side door to give us a better view of the interior. What followed was like the mountain scene from Close Encounters of The Third Kind as everyone peered inside. At that point, he could have walked straight past us waving a gold ingots and nobody would have noticed.
Stripped out and clad in lightweight side panels, with five lightweight carbon race seats, the interior was other as bare as Mother Hubbard's proverbial cupboard.
The central drive postion takes its cues from the McLaren F1, the instrument pack is Porsche GT3, and the dashboard is bespoke molding, created at great expense to math the high quality of the rest of the van, whore new front end even has bi-xenon lights.
I collared Sven Thomsen, owner of Berline-based TH Automobile, whose company specializes in the installation of Porsche 996 and 997 mechanicals in VW T4 and T5 vechicles.
Thomsen explained that because the boxy VW T5 bus has nearly twice as much body area as a 911, it is not immediately obvious that the green paintwork is the hue applied to the current Porsche GT3 RS. Its black-painted 20-inch aloys mimic the GT3 RS look too, as do the twin centrally positioned exhaust outlets.
Apart from the obviously expensive interior work, the T5 shell has been the subject of extensive re-engineering to convert it from a front-engine, front-drive configuration to accept the rear-engine, rear-drive Porsche 996 GT2 drivetrrain and some Porsche suspension elements.
Unlike both the stock T5 and the GT2, the TH2 uses air springs made by a Dutch company, coupled to H&R dampers and ride-height lift system. The ECU lowers the ride height in two steps for better handling and aerodynamics."
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800hp 664lbs tq, ran a top speed of 194.2 mph
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