the off-roading sports car doesn’t look so drastically different from your average 992. The Dakar’s fixed CFRP rear spoiler resembles the Turbo’s spoiler, and the carbon fiber bonnet with ...

Weight-saving measures have been taken to keep the car's mass in check, for example, the rear seats have been removed and lightweight window glass has been used. The 911 Dakar's engineers raided ...

How many sports-car buyers today venerate the Paris ... Equipped with front and rear hydraulic axle lifts, the Dakar requires about nine seconds to hoist its skirts to its maximum clearance ...

The Dakar's altitude offers up some decent ... which is important and probably kinda tough to pull off in a rear-engine sports car, but company reps didn't have a firm number on hand.) ...

Porsche's rally-inspired 911 Dakar, an off-road-prepped sports car, is a rolling nostalgia bin. Way back when, the 911 was a force in rallying, its rear-engine layout giving it traction in the ...

The upgraded suspension system can also raise the Dakar's front and rear by an additional 1.2 in (30 mm) when dialed to its highest setting, giving the car a ground clearance and breakover angle ...

Even with reprofiled front and rear overhangs, the Dakar's 16.1-degree approach and ... Buyers who are going to spend nearly $225K—for a car within $1800 of a GT3 RS—probably are doing so ...

Other details include the 911 GT3-sourced engine mounts, rear-wheel steering ... However, our scales said our 2023 911 Dakar test car came in at 3,655 pounds, though we weighed it with the ...

“The halo car (for Porsche) is the GT3 RS ... we want to show what the 911 can do driving off-road.” There are no rear seats in the Dakar. They’ve been removed to lighten the vehicle ...

The car is forgiving in slides ... I flip a switch to raise the suspension and set the Dakar to the drift-friendly Rallye mode for rear-biased power distribution. The all-wheel-drive system ...