Can John Phillips make sense of a 911 that's happiest playing in the mud?
From the July/August issue of Car and Driver.Greed is good, Gordon Gekko said in the 1980s. Maybe he was talking about horsepower. It was in that decade when Porsche engineers, readying a new 911 Turbo, began questioning how much power they could funnel through two wheels. Porsche president and CEO Peter Schutz responded, “Why not four?” and painstakingly created a test-bed prototype called the 959. Schutz knew he could hasten the engineering if a competition program depended on it.
Body roll? The Dakar's never heard of it. Porsche's familiar launch-control programming is available in Sport, but in Rallye and Off-road modes, Rallye Launch Control allows a gratifying 20 percent wheelslip. The Dakar then squats for half a beat—as if asking 'Everybody strapped in?'—before lunging so ferociously that you're never prepared. A 'hard leaver,' as Pro Stockers would declare, a group who would beam at the Dakar's 11.1-second quarter-mile at 126 mph.
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