World's most expensive Cayenne

[speeder]

Most likely. First time I've seen this one, it's rigged for car tracking shots.

[speeder]

The compliment is that it's the only SUV you can put ~1k lbs. of swinging metal on top of and it still handles well enough to track a moving car.

[Hugh R]

Yep, we use them all the time. Used to use MB SUV, but they caused camera shudder on curves. Its also painted matte black to reduce reflections and glare. I think they are all turbos.

[Embraer]

Ive seen that on Sierra Highway before

[Hugh R]

[vonsmog]

I know the cameras on them are quite pricey, as my buddy who is a stunt driver took one out once! But he did tell them to move it before the stunt, and that he most likely was going it hit it if they didn't. The director thought he knew better.............he didn't.

[JavaBrewer]

I guy I know who works as a Grip in Hollywood sent me details on a Panamera Camera car.

GearPatrol panamera-turbo-camera-car

Lots of work and $$ in that platform. I would have thought it would have been better to start with a ground up purpose built design but then maybe costs would have been higher? I'll bet that whoever negotiated the Pcar ended up getting a personal Panamera/GT2-3 car(s) out of the deal.

[id10t]

Any particular reasoning behind hte flat black paint?

[Hugh R]

No reflection or glare to the camera lens.

[HardDrive]

Thats on Larchmont, yes?

[speeder]

Yes. They are filming a car commercial this am.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Just think of the selfie you could take with that rig!

[Schumi]

Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

Lots of work and $$ in that platform. I would have thought it would have been better to start with a ground up purpose built design but then maybe costs would have been higher? I'll bet that whoever negotiated the Pcar ended up getting a personal Panamera/GT2-3 car(s) out of the deal.

The best reason to not start with a ground up purpose built car is most people who would be building such a thing don't actually know what it takes to build said car.

Reliability is probably a huge factor. If you lose a day of shooting due to your special camera vehicle overheating or blowing a tire because it was 'engineered' by a group of hollywood techs that went to prop-design school instead of 100 Germans with masters degrees.... there goes your budget.

Therefore... high end camera rigging company + Porsche tank is the winning formula.

[speeder]

Seriously.

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Just think of the selfie you could take with that rig!

#firstletmetakeaselfie


lol

[Weaver]

We shot a Honda commercial called "The Fan" in 2005 where a Honda Engineer/Dyno Tech was daydreaming about driving an Indycar while half asleep running the engine dyno. We used my car, Kanaan's #11, but Wheldon did all of the driving.

Jeff Zwart does most of the Honda ads, and luckily this one also. He used a Cayenne Turbo, it was its second production. Jeff drove it around the oval for a few laps, then his pro driver the rest of the day.

It was pretty damn impressive seeing that truck lap Fontana at 115, 120 mph with a big boom and camera hanging off of the top. A lot better than any of our rental vans and SUVs could do. We saw 140 mph from the Honda telemetry on the back straight for a brief moment. Not too bad.

In true Dan form, he kept running the nose of the Indycar into the camera, one hit actually made the final commercial. When he was young, he was a real fu@king brat! Anyway….

Those Cayenne camera rigs are pretty impressive.

[TRE Cup]

We service a couple of them. They take the booms off before they bring them in. Turbos are chosen since they can be bought cheap and typically these rigs don't do a lot of miles each year. The turbo has the performance to match most film maker needs

[Hugh R]

Yeah, the boom goes in a follow trailer. They don't drive on open streets with the boom in place. The camera is a separate rental from the vehicle. I'm not sure, but I think an Electra or Panavision camera is a few hundred grand.

[motion]

I guess these things get around. I spotted this one in our town of Red Lodge, MT last summer. A few days later, we were camping in a fairly remote spot on a creek when an entire film production entourage motored by, along with the Cayenne. They were filming a Chevy truck commercial.