The Porsche 911 Dakar harnesses the spirit of its rally-dominating ancestors. thesmokingtire
A few months ago, Porsche asked me this: “Would you like to fly to Morocco and drive the new 911 Dakar in the Sahara on some of the course once used for the Paris-Dakar Rally?” Already fascinated by Porsche’s heritage and success with 911s in that epic rally through Europe and North Africa, I answered without hesitation. That you’re reading this story indicates my response. I was about to learn a little about Africa and a lot about the latest 911.
As we proceed south, villages built along the fertile banks of a winding river appear and disappear every kilometer or so. Remove the cars, cellphones, and striped tarmac, and the scene could have taken place any time in the past thousand years. More than a mile or two in any direction, civilization simply ends. I wonder how property rights work here.
On a loose surface, there is no grip to “catch and snap back.” If you get that same oversteer and lift, you lose nearly all the pendulum effect. The car is forgiving in slides, gently transitioning from one direction to the other. My belief in the inherent greatness of the off-road 911 is reinforced over and over.
Turning off the tarmac onto a gravel road across bouldered, desolate badlands, 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 is programmed in conjunction with the torque vectoring and rear steer to optimize easy, controlled sliding and moving around beyond the limit of grip without unnatural or surprising reactions.
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