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Breaking the ice with Porsche in Harbin
Breaking the ice with Porsche in Harbin.
When someone tells you they are going on a
winter break, you imagine a southward-bound
holiday of sun, sand and beach-fuelled bliss.
Yet, as Porsche saw at first hand this year,
Harbin’s Ice and Snow Festival gives rise to a
northerly migration of a different kind.
Despite temperatures of –20 degrees celsius,
thousands of tourists flock to Harbin every
January to revel in a breathtaking display of
elaborate ice sculptures; arranged beautifully
along the banks of the Songhua River. From
icy manifestations of China’s Great Wall and
Forbidden City, to enormous reproductions of the
Acropolis and Arc de Triomphe, the creativity of
the ice sculptors is almost without end.
Porsche was privileged to take part in the
festival, as the only international car marque at
the celebrations this year, where a team of 30
sculptors were recruited to carve 150 cubic
metres of ice into life-sized versions of the
Boxster, Cayman, 911 and Cayenne. Crowds
gathered for photos around their favoured
Porsche where, just like the real thing, every aspect of the models had been prepared to the
finest detail. Unfortunately, of course, not even
our highly-trained technicians could get these
Porsches to drive.