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After nearly three years of losing its distinctive pink shade and turning green due to heavy rains and flooding, the famous pink waters of Lac Rose i ...
No one who pays even a quantum of attention to Porsche zeitgeist is unaware of the past decade’s proliferation of hot rodding ...
Buyers who want to lean further into the 911 Dakar's rally heritage can option the Rallye Design Package which takes cues directly from the Porsche racecar that won the 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally.
The Dakar ‘The Dakar’ began life in 1978 as the Paris-Dakar Rally. It ran annually from France to Senegal until 2007 but when the 2008 event was cancelled due to security concerns, the rally ...
A fair amount, it turns out. As we reported in our First Drive story, the Porsche 911 Dakar isn’t just a brilliant piece of marketing BS.Its most obvious visual distinction compared to a regular ...
FRANCE – CIRCA 1983: Preparations to the start of the 6th Paris-Alger-Dakar rally. Jacky Ickx and Claude Brasseur’s Porsche 911 4×4. Paris, Concorde place, December 31, 1983.
The new car pays homage to the first all-wheel-drive 911, which surprised the world when it won the grueling 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally, a legendary multiday race across Europe and North Africa.
There’s a new Porsche 911 available to order, and it’s quite different from the other two dozen versions. It’s the 911 Dakar, with raised suspension and an off-road rally-racing attitude.
Seeing a 959 Paris-Dakar have layers of protective bodywork peeled like an onion is mesmerizing, revealing what truly advanced engineering looked like back in the ’80s. Compared to modern race ...
The Porsche 911 Dakar is a rally racing-inspired version of the sports car with all-wheel-drive, ... gold and blue livery of the Rothmans-sponsored Porsche 911 that won the 1984 Paris-Dakar rally.
This 1981 Rolls-Royce Corniche was a surprising entrant in the 1981 Paris–Dakar Rally, and it just sold at auction for roughly $630,000. The Corniche had its 6.8-liter engine replaced by a 5.7 ...