Read CAR magazine's Porsche 911 Dakar review: we try it on the road in the UK as well as off the road in Morocco - get all the details, specs and pictures here
► But why does it exist? And is it any good?– you can wrap a 911 in as much camouflage as you want, but you’ll never hide an 80mm ride height increase – thehas rearranged our understanding of what a 911 can and should be capable of. We’ve driven it, on road and off.Were Stuttgart planning to shift tens of thousands of them, that might be an issue. But it isn’t. Porsche loves to build one less car than the market demands, and in this instance it’s taken that approach to extremes.
Initially we had no idea. While we covered road miles on the original launch event in Morocco, they were largely arrow-straight and zealously policed. The Pirellis are seriously rugged boots, however, and even here the Dakar fidgets on rough tarmac at low speed, even if road noise is mercifully a good deal less than one of those ‘One life, live it’ mud-plugging
This is more like it. The 992-gen 911 bodyshell may not have been reinforced in any way for the Dakar but the car feels tight as a drum as we up the pace, knock the stability control back to Sport and select one of the Dakar’s two bespoke drive modes, Offroad. This pegs the variable front/rear torque split at a nominal 50:50 for maximum traction and raises the suspension to its highest position.
How is this delicate road-based two-seater still on one piece? Approach, breakover and departure angles are impressively un-terrible for an adapted sports car, helped at the front by the deletion of the main central radiator. rollcage.Yep, though you’ll need a handy recreational area/desert/abandoned open-cast mine to take full advantage of Porsche’s low-slung, 150mph 4×4. Fortunately, for our Porsche 911 Dakar review, we have one on hand, in Morocco.
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