REVIEW: At long last, Porsche has made a Safari 911 you can actually buy - with 473bhp and 4WD, is it the ultimate desert racer? Let's find out...
To stop it sliding around off road, or indeed to make it do so even more if that’s what you want, two new driving modes have been added. Off-Road defaults to a near-50:50 front-to-rear torque split to maximise traction, although it of course remains still infinitely variable. I found Rallye rather more to my taste, needing a great deal of persuading not to direct most of the torque through the rear wheels.
So what’s it actually like? Despite the fact that Porsche claims to have halved the Dakar’s spring rate to take into account its off-roading role and, I’m sure, offset some of the stiffness in the sidewalls of those Scorpions, it certainly didn’t feel that way as we bumped our way south through Morocco to close to the Algerian border, where vast ranges of dunes rose up to meet us. It’s firm, not uncomfortable, but definitely firm, although no noisier than a winter tyre.
On gravel, there’s no need to raise the body. The stones make a frightful racket pinging off the protective items that you can see and those that you can’t . But unless you were stupid enough to drive on the tailpipes of another Dakar and thereby be pebbledashed, no harm appears to be done. Out here, more than in any other environment you may encounter, momentum is all. So don’t be shy. Don’t tentatively aim it up that treacherous hill of constantly shifting sand but gather as much speed as you can, trust that the car can take it and hurl at the wall. Select manual mode, keep your foot in and, if that means the twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre flat six spends some time bouncing off its limiter, sand spraying in every direction and dimension, let it get on with it.
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