2023 Porsche 911 Dakar: A Forbidden Union of Sport Coupe and Trophy Truck

The previous world is dying and the brand new world struggles to be born. Now’s the time of the 2023 Porsche 911 Dakar.

For so long as mankind has drawn breath, chimeras and monsters have disturbed our understanding. Considered issues of fantasy, they hang-out our goals and the darkish corners of our most unwelcome ideas. Attempt to have a look at them straight, they usually escape earlier than our brains can acknowledge their unattainable nature.

Unholy chimeras with the heads of lions and the tails of serpents. Diabolical griffins with the maws of eagles and the haunches of nice cats. Blasphemous German sport coupes with lifted suspensions and all-terrain tires throwing sand onto the skid plates that shield their rear-mounted engines.

Ungodly issues, all. And right here comes essentially the most wicked of them. Isn’t it superb?

A Lifted, Off-Street 911 In Dealerships

Porsche has taken probably the most splendid issues ever constructed for the roadway and used witchcraft and unforgivably darkish creativeness to prep it for sand, snow, and dirt.

The 2023 Porsche 911 Dakar isn’t some one-off implausible abomination made for a single race. You’ll discover it in showrooms subsequent 12 months. You may personal one. And should all historical past’s gods defend you from what wrath it brings.

Porsche says it “would be the first two-door sports activities automobile to supply excellent off-road capabilities.” Porsche simply…says that. As if numerous forgotten Cassandras haven’t warned us in opposition to that.

[ed – Sean, you have to break character here and point out that Porsche has a bit of rally racing history and has even won the Paris-Dakar Rally in a modified 911 before.] [Can’t. Scared.]

Already Examined All Over the World

Porsche says it has put 300,000 miles on check mules creating this demonic union of a 911 and a trophy truck. Porsche threw it round within the snow in Sweden. They jumped it off dunes in Morocco. They wrung it out on the Château de Lastours off-road monitor in southern France “to check the automobile’s dealing with on typical rally programs and fine-tune the suspension.”

Presumably at night time, to cover its horrible magnificence from an unready world.

Even Porsche check driver Romain Dumas says he was confused by the project to check drive a 911 on unstable gravel switchbacks. “I knew what a 911 may do on the highway,” says Dumas, “however I used to be completely shocked by how nicely the automobile carried out right here on the free.”

Two-time world rally champion Walter Röhrl reined the monster in on a frozen lake in Sweden. “No Porsche buyer will imagine all of the issues you are able to do with this automobile earlier than they’ve pushed it themselves,” he reviews.

Like most creatures of fantasy, we will solely speculate on what powers it. Rumors say it’s the twin-turbo 3.0-liter flat-6 from the Carrera 4S, with its 443 horsepower.

Porsche will unleash the beast at subsequent week’s Los Angeles Auto Present. For now, they’ve supplied photographs. These great fantails of sand below all 4 wheels recommend it’s all-wheel-drive.

That’s all of the world can learn about this Eldritch god of the automotive realm for now. Porsche will launch it from the spells that maintain it again on November 16 in Los Angeles — at 10 p.m., presumably to protect the innocence of the day.

We will’t wait.