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Google's Street View Catches Porsche Engineers Testing in Colorado

It's no secret that car manufacturers do most of their new car testing on the public roads. Spy photographers get good money for shots of a new car even if covered in a thick layer of camouflage. Sweden provides the perfect location for cold weather testing and the Nurburgring can replicate a year's worth of suspension wear and tear in only one lap. In the United States, Death Valley in California is the prime location for hot weather testing while only 10 hours east, Colorado is known for having some of highest paved roads in the world for high altitude testing.

Car manufacturers go to great lengths to disguise new cars when testing them around the world. Each car company has different procedures as to what should be done when coming into contact with spy photographers. Mercedes has even been known to have decoy cars flank a prototype in order to block any of the photographer's shots. But what happens when the spy is in the form of Google Street View?

Since Google Streetview was deployed a few years ago, the internet has been flooded with photos of the weird things the Google team has captured on camera while driving around the country. While doing some research for Garage419, or rather researching my next vacation and road trip, I was looking into some high mountain roads in Colorado. The Mount Evans Toll Road was one road that really caught my attention with its twists and turns upwards of 14,000 feet. When I followed the road to the summit on Street View, I was met with a surprise. What happens when Porsche engineers testing the new Caymans and Boxsters spot a Google StreetView car coming their way? They duck and cover. Also spotted looks to be a face-lifted 911 Turbo and Targa.


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J.F. Musial
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