Hold on tight! Time to take the new Porsche 911 Dakar off road and on a romp through the desert. Full, gnarly and surprisingly sandy review this way – with bonus video road test by BenMillerWords 🎥 🌵
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. Just 2500 911 Dakars will be built, in total.
We’ve no idea. While we covered road miles, they were largely arrow-straight and zealously policed. The Pirellis are seriously rugged boots, and 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-pluggingThe ride works better at speed but the Carrera 4 GTS is, quite predictably, the better bet for sustained tarmac use.
We glide between tufts of elephant grass and skeletal, long-dead trees, filling the air with dust, sand and, where the car’s underbelly clonks off the landscape, expletives. What’s more, we don’t get stuck. And, even as I sweat, I’m smiling. In Rallye, for its more rear-biased power split, and with the stability control firmly disabled, the Dakar is in its element – faster and infinitely more fun than any SUV, and capable not merely of passing through this intimidating landscape but of gleefully revelling in it.
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