Porsche 911 Dakar to debut Nov 16 in Los Angeles

Testing of a taller-riding, off-road-capable Porsche 911 has been on the hearsay mill for a while, and positively, builders of modified vehicles have given their very own interpretation of the theme, reminiscent of restoration-modification specialists Singer Automobile Design with the All-terrain Competitors Examine, and Marc Philipp Gemballa with the Marsien.

Now, such an endeavor has been confirmed by Porsche themselves with the 911 Dakar that has accomplished its off-road testing regime, which the German producer will premiere on the Los Angeles Auto Present subsequent week on November 16.

Porsche has carried out greater than 10,000 km of off-road testing on the 911 Dakar up to now, as a part of the automobile’s wider testing programme that has seen greater than 500,000 km coated in check mileage. These checks went past the off-road proving grounds at Porsche’s Weissach facility, venturing additional throughout Europe and into the Center East.

Routes much like rally programs had been tackled on the Château de Lastours check course in southern France for testing on free surfaces in addition to over jumps, whereas snow and ice had been tackled on the cold-weather proving grounds of Arjeplog, Sweden.

With ‘Dakar’ in its identify, the desert surroundings needs to be mastered as properly, and so the 911 Dakar was extensively examined in Dubai and Morocco, the place the event items of the lifted Neuelfer had been pushed repeatedly over steep, 50 m-tall sand dunes in temperatures of greater than 45 levels Celsius.

Technical specs for the 911 Dakar have but to be revealed, and it stays to be seen if the off-road succesful 911 shall be for normal sequence manufacturing, or made as a limited-run version. Given its off-road design temporary, all-wheel-drive and a turbocharged powertrain is more likely to characteristic right here.

The Porsche 911 Dakar isn’t the one sports activities automobile line to spawn a lifted, off-roading variant; the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato idea of 2019 will emerge as a manufacturing automobile when it’s unveiled in Miami, US subsequent month, in line with Autocar, and this may even be the Italian supercar maker’s closing purely inside combustion mannequin.