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Well, they should be calling it the Allroad, but hey - Dakar it is. Cool name I think.

I'd very much like one. I wonder if it'll be offered with a long-range fuel tank? 120l or so would be perfect so I don't need to fill it with petrol every other day.

I just like it for the absurdity of portal axles on a 911

Hmm, I hadn't seen that but it's bound to bugger up the cruising fuel economy. Hmm, perhaps I'll have to get one for green-laning instead

Going back to your last IC car thread, a 911 that you can rally down a bridleway must be pretty close to perfect one car garage material.

ZedLeg wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:00 am Going back to your last IC car thread, a 911 that you can rally down a bridleway must be pretty close to perfect one car garage material.

works for me!

ZedLeg wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:44 am I just like it for the absurdity of portal axles on a 911

Not for me - that’s entirely stoopid, I’m out.

(Although the 992 is now reaching family-sized 4x4 proportions, so it’s probably fairly appropriate).

Ah, go start a poll about it.

In other Porsche off-road news, there's been a few pumped up off-road Cayennes on TikTok, including a dude who lives in one...



https://www.motorbiscuit.com/porsche-ca ... ng-camper/

The lack of tyre clearance in those arches is making me unreasonably angry

ZedLeg wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:07 pm The lack of tyre clearance in those arches is making me unreasonably angry

The lack of axle articulation on the 911 makes me unreasonably angry but I'm just about holding it together

Was just reminded of this. I think of the two I'd have the Singer

The new car looks undeniably cool. Would be great to see someone buy one and use it "as intended." Over to you, YouTubers of the world....

While I liked the Rothmans livery on the 959, I think using it with 'Roughroads' looks bloody awful on the Dakar. Still cool as fuck, even though I don't like the alloy wheel design either.

ZedLeg wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:44 am I just like it for the absurdity of portal axles on a 911

Is this confirmed? I have seen one article that suggested the Dakar would not have the portal axles of the cars they used to climb the Chile volcano?

I hate it now

Yeah, not keen. It might actually have some rough terrain capabilities, but it’s all a bit rover streetwise. Wheels look like they’re off an early 2000s Audi.

Needs to be a bit more rally. And copying the old livery doesn’t work if you have to change the main sponsors name.

So what's with the Roughroads name/branding?

I'm guessing they didn't want to use Rothmans because cigarettes but it would've been better if they'd just done the paintjob without the decals.

I like it but it would be better if it were all in one solid colour, lowered, with nicer wheels and more road biased tyres.

Mito Man wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:47 am I like it but it would be better if it were all in one solid colour, lowered, with nicer wheels and more road biased tyres.

Is the question “what did Mito say when his dad bought him a Land Rover” ?