Like a car or a cup of coffee, your skis can say a lot about you. If you ride Lines, you’re probably a park rat. If you ride Black Crows, you probably hunt powder. If you ride Völkls or Fischers, you’re probably slapping gates down a slalom course. I myself ride Nordicas. But if you need skis influenced by a Taycan Turbo CrossTurismo, Porsche will sell you a pair for $2,489, and you don’t need an allocation for them.
As winter begins its slow encroachment, the automaker revealed its latest collaboration with HEAD: the 7 Series and 8 Series skis, intended for ripping on- and off-piste. Porsche and HEAD’s team of experts, which includes pro alpine racers, have worked together for a few seasons now to release various drops of these unique skis.
Featuring what HEAD calls its “Energy Management Circuit” Technology, these ultra-lightweight skis can help reduce vibrations (“chatter” in ski-community speak) while boosting agility, control, and stability. The planks themselves have a solid wood core, with Titanal for a bit more rigidity, and feature a layer of graphene carbon, which, via a tiny circular resistor integrated into each ski, helps soften that kinetic energy and transform it. Porsche helped HEAD design not just the ski’s shape and structure, but also the topsheet’s bold, intriguing graphics, complete with familiar “Turbo” scripting on the tails.
Available on Porsche’s website, the 7 Series is billed as a carving-focused ski for groomers, available in 156 cm, 163 cm, 170 cm, and 177 cm lengths, with a 124 mm-70 mm-109mm sidecut. The more all-mountain version, the 8 Series, is available in slightly longer lengths, and its sidecut predictably grows substantially to 130mm-88mm-124 mm to accommodate a wider range of terrain use where a larger footprint is usually needed.
Both options include fantastic PROTECTOR bindings, whose rear connection points pivot outward to reduce the risk of an ACL injury during a fall. If you’re looking to don a full Porsche x HEAD gear kit at the slopes or during après, carbon ski poles and other accessories can also be purchased.
