Porsche’s off-road 911 is a wild and crazy good time.
, but rather the first of several off-road sports cars. After two days of sliding across gravel expanses and kicking up huge sand plumes in the Moroccan desert, all I can say is, please—pretty please—bring it on!
A hydraulic suspension lift comes standard, raising the Dakar’s body an additional 1.2 inches when activated for a total ground clearance of 7.5 inches. This is essentially just a duplicated version of the nose lift system Porsche uses on other 911 models, with the second hydraulic system flipped around and mounted to the rear axle. To package this lift kit at the rear, Porsche had to remove the 911 Dakar’s back seats, but come on, it’s not like you were going to use those anyway.
Mounted atop the rear axle, the Dakar’s 3.0-liter twin-turbo flat-6 engine carries over unchanged from the Carrera 4 GTS, producing 473 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque. With a standard 8-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission and all-wheel drive, Porsche says the 911 Dakar will launch to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds, which is the same time as a rear-wheel-drive Carrera GTS. In other words, it’s damn fast.
Anyone who buys a 911 Dakar and doesn’t take it off-roading is a real party pooper; this thing demands to get dirty. The strong power from the flat-6 engine keeps the Dakar going through sticky situations, and the Rallye and Offroad modes alter the transmission programming to ensure the engine stays humming in the heart of its rev range for longer. On the gravel, in the dunes—hell, even when bouncing over desert whoops—driving the Dakar never ceases to make me laugh.
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