Car Review - Frauscher X Porsche Fantom: A Porsche with a difference

Car Review - Frauscher X Porsche Fantom: A Porsche with a difference
Porsche X Frauscher Fantom boat (Image: Supplied)
Dean Evans
When Porsche introduced the new Macan electric to the world’s media in Nice, France, it also unveiled something a little different, but very much related: a Porsche on water, rather than wheels.The Frauscher X Porsche 850 Fantom Air is a very impressive machine. A partnership between Austrian shipyard Frauscher and Porsche (hence that X), in simple car terms, it’s a 2024 Porsche Macan electric for the water. Yep, an electric boat.And while it’s certainly not the first electric boat, it is the first electric boat that&rsqu...

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