I live in Germany and I am lucky enough to own a couple of Porsches bought from a main Porsche dealer. Before this Dakar 911 was available I asked my Porsche dealer if I can put an order in for a car. I was basically laughed at and told they only get allocated one car and it’s sold. I tried 3 other dealers. All laughed at me. Now used values in Germany start at 350,000 euros - £300,000. The car is still available on the Porsche configurator, and you can even spec one up. However try to order it and you are told they are all sold out. I love Porsche as a brand, but realistically nobody will ever get one of these special cars paying the new price you quoted. (Which you even thought was too high) Normal people will never be able to walk onto a dealership and order such a car. This is something important to mention. Because ultimately these cars are dream cars, - but they are just that. A dream. Reality is quite different. Great car, I want one. But even after selling the majority of my healthy organs, I cannot even get close to buying one. Anyway, - very jealous you got to play with one on your farm! Thanks for the video.
Until Porsche know you have spent £1m+ on their vehicles they won't talk. However if you want a 0-60 in 3 second bargain just go and buy a used Taycan, offer half what its on the forecourt at and see what happens.
@@CHEDDARANDWAFFLES I just don't know why anyone who hasn't already flipped at least 12 new Porsche - and eaten the 200K losses that resulted - even expects to make it on any kind of contact list for the GT3, let alone actually able to buy one... You're dreaming, man.
@@SmallBlogV8 Upon closer inspection of that moment standing at the business park startline... You are correct, Jeremy said that and James gave an agreeable "mmmm" God damn man, get a life 😂 😂 Well spotted and remembered though dude... now go outside and touch some grass or something.
Tuthill need to do a well priced kit for regular 911s to make ideal UK road cars. More travel, softer springs, taller tyres. They’d sell load and a big up yours to porsche
Pleasure to have a commentator without the predictable silliness of certain TV presenters or the affected, and frankly embarrassing, drivel of most aspiring road testers. Thanks Harry.
Yes, I thought that too. And the 'camera car' - Harry said it was the Range Rover Sport diesel - seemed to have better traction than the Dakar! Great Video Harry - Many Thanks indeed.
Price considerations aside, I think porsche and Lamborghini are onto something with these fast off-roaders. The roads in the uk and pretty much everywhere are very restrictive with speed limits and using these cars past 2 gear will get you in jail. Track days can be fun, but they also have restrictive rules, and can be quite crowded. So where can one have fun, without getting fines? Just like Harry, a wet grass field will do, but if you want some extra fun then some dunes and backroads in Morocco or Spain will do you well.
Why do you need to spend £250k+ to slide about in a muddy field at 60 mph. If you want to have fun off road, buy an off roader. Ariel Nomad, Bowler Wildcat, a rally car maybe.
I live in Colorado, and the roads are absolutely terrible from the freeze/thaw cycle. I am broke, but I would love a GT3. If I had one, I would find it very difficult to use on many of our poorly maintained roads. A Dakar or Sterrato would be much more practical for tearing around the city.
Last Season I have been out in a Dakar as a passenger and as photographer, and it was in some way the biggest surprise in cars for 2023 for me personally. We were out in the ore mountains, it was kinda new, so the owner in the beginning was a bit shy, but over the day it got better and better. we discovered so much route possibilities, it was jsut epic. I cant drive the Sterrato(even as passenger) sadly, due to my 2m height. In a Huracan Spider I looked over the windscreen. Maybe the Sterrato is the more epic car, but the Dakar was great from my POV, the Price beside!
And we can throw pretty much all of Devon & Cornwall in there too! We don't drive tractors because we're farmers... It's simply cos the roads are utter shi... 😅
He could use the red tow hook to pull a small trailer with a goat on it. Don't know if he has a goat. I won't have goats on our farm - don't like them. But they are good in front of the camera in multi-cam action shots (as long as you get the lighting right).
I saw one in the showroom here in the UK, and what surprised me as a 964/996 owner was its relatively enormous size (in addition to the relatively enormous cost!)
I 100% agree. We had a PCGB invitation evening at the Bugatti owners club last year...... I absolutely couldn't believe the physical size of the new Boxster - comparable to an ocean liner in bulk.
Unfortunately, that is the current state of the world. Though higher financing rates and some softening in used market are finally starting to bring out some glimpses of sensibility
If people will pay for it, Porsche should produce more of them, or maybe create a new limited edition on the same platform. Kind of unlimited numbers of limited editions, quite smart.
Please make an extended version of this episode. I could watch this for an hour or two. What a car! Thanks, Harry! I have updated my bucket list accordingly 😂👍🏼👍🏼 Congratulations on 700K subscribers! 🙌🏼
Reflecting on all these passionate insights, it's evident we're all united by our love for these machines, regardless of whether they're parked in our garages or exist only in our dreams.
I have a love hate thing going on with Harrys Porsche reviews, one of his reviews made me pull the trigger and order my Gts, I love it. He's enthusiasm for Porsche really stands out for me.
It's not "enthusiasm" for Porsches. The reason all medias are full of Volkswagen Group content is because that corporation pushes press cars to them so aggressively and thus gives them a free source for content to get clicks on. Press cars and then lavish, well-catered press trips to exotic and warm locations too. And a constant stream of press releases designed to fill their content with. It's sort-of planned by their behemoth of a marketing machine...all done to get your money.
@@mattmorris2867 It does take several years of systematically studying a wide range of medias, university education in marketing, then further research including matching marketing theory with empirical research. Plus it helped being sponsored by Volkswagen Group and seeing their operations from the inside.
Sounds like that 50mm higher suspension but without the extra lift option, with it's lots of travel and compliance should be a standard option for the UK on all 911s.
I didn't know until now how much I was going to enjoy watching Harry drive a 911 though a field! 😂 Looks like he had fun with this one, and I enjoyed getting to see it.
Love that fixed rear spoiler. Wish they'd fit it to the other 911's. Looks way better than the automatic one fitted to "normal" 911's, which when it lifts, makkes the rear of the car look like its been in a shunt. 😮 Harry, as always a great video, many thanks for your efforts.
Allowing it to retract reduces drag and probably adds an extra mpg. Not a big difference, but an important gain with all the laws about maintaining a certain average efficiency across all cars a brand produces. It might give that little bit of leeway to design cars like this after all.
Harry you're the best reviewer in the world. thank you. I saw one of these in the racing livery and thought it looked odd on the road but looks better in your film.
For the same price, £246k used, you could get a new V8 Cayenne S with plenty of options, AND a new 992 GTS with plenty of options! Madness. Let’s hope they make it into a standard model for the 992.2. Standard seats, no roll cage, less complicated suspension system (same height), standard Carrera engine, and they’d have a sales winner.
@@Gorilla_Jones I meant same ride height as the Dakar, but they could make it in a cheaper way for a less expensive model. You could almost do a fixed-height steel spring version, you don’t need a multi height air system for a cheaper model.
As with the lambo , only Harry can thrash around on his farm and do a proper test on these bonkers cars . Love it . Sad to think that probably most of them that are sold won't be used to their full potential . Cheers Harry 👊
Such a great video, thanks Harry. I sold my last 911 8 years ago. Damn if I'm not thinking of remortgaging the house and buying another one. Thanks for that too, Harry! The Dakar would be ideal in Joburg with the potholes we have. And we don't get points for speeding. Perfek.
I just marvel at how Porsche so seamlessly integrates the info screen into the dash of all their vehicles, when almost every other car just sticks an iPad on top.
Hi Harry Well done on 700K subscribers - richly deserved for such enjoyable and informative videos. I am pleased to say I was one of your earlier subscribers and look forward to every new video. I also like Harry's Farm and hope you continue regular updates even though you are changing how the farm is operating in the future. Best wishes Philip
Thank you for the real world review in. Wet grassy field!!!! Hope Porsche sees the light and makes it a mainstream option for 911s Thanks for the warts too the sport seats, smaller tank and the roll cage! I’d get the green a d wrap it in Martini or Gulf Weyer colors
I’m not a huge fan of how the Dakar looks on the road, but I loved this video and all the off road content, especially when you through it around the bend on the road, I wanted a replay.
Nice! Life must be sweet for a vlogger who get´s to muck about in a 911 Dakar, and is sweet for the viewers who get to witness it. My kind of car! Thanks Harry!
Tom Barr -Smith in Oz drove his across the Simpson desert. Had it a week, sorted out proper protection and away he went. BTWm Tom is 80 plus! Total legend
Wonderful review. Unfortunately I will never be in a position to afford such a car but what a concept. What came across so clearly was how car companies have gone down the wrong rabbit hole. Bigger wheels, low profile tyres and rock hard suspension what we need is Less grip, more ride height, higher tyres. Today’s roads are so bad a car that simply dismissed them was a joy to watch. Who would have thought !
I have one of these. Same spec as yours. Fantastic vehicle. The perfect car for Cotswolds roads. I own/ have owned Astons, Turbo Ss, and GT3s. Never previously had so many positive comments when I park outside Waitrose. Oh and, as usual, great video!
Buckets are a must if one DOES use it as intended and not on A and B british roads. If you want to do a Targa, you have to have full harness, and the buckets are made for them as such. If you want comfort Harry, buy a GTS, drove one only last week, fantastic machine and very comfortable. And save $$$. I see the dakar as fairly priced for the effort to test and develop.
well Harry, if you don't like the seats, go for the 18-way sports seats and leave out the roll-bar in your configuration and all of a sudden you have the perfect daily sports car driver for UK B-roads :-) as for price? Porsches are known for their apothecary pricing and maybe, but only maybe provided Porsche does not make the Dakar a standard version in the future, you may fetch also a better resale price, even with miles on it. Have done over 5k miles in my Roughroads livery car with bucket seats and roll cage and I love it. best daily driver from Porsche I ever had, even with 99% tarmac driving. Other than that, love your videos. Cheers from Switzerland
Another great video Harry! This would be the perfect car for the rural roads i live on here in Northern Ireland, shame i would need to sell my house to be able to afford it!
Just for comparison I configured a 4 GTS to the base spec of a Dakar - the difference melts to 32k EUR or 27.5k GBP. People are spending this money for paint and carbon pieces. What baffles me, is that you could neither get the Dakar with parking cameras nor with a distronic system. Maybe we will see this kind of concept as an unlimited version for the next iteration of the 911?
What a car! Seeing it hooning around the fields and then darting on the road, is great to behold. Pricey, but lovely. Sounds like such a versatile beast. I'd choose it
Correct me if I am wrong, but I got the impression that you will eventually get one of these - minus the bucket seats, that is - amd very soon! And thank you for yet another entertaining video ! Cheers !!
I found this very interesting and the car appealing. I did a power to weight calculation and found that the power to weight ratio works out at the same as my Alpine A110S.
I like harry talking about the protection stopping just under the bumper and then the cut to the plastic oil sump bottom that all the 911s seem to come with now at 5:04 lol. Doubt that'll stand up to much in the way of rocks.
A conceptional reason for the acoustical difference can be the roll cage, that links resonances from the engine and chassis to the roof and makes it transmit and enhance those, as now the whole car is one resonance body and any vibration insulation from the lower part of the car to the top are somehow "overrun". Can be compared a bit to the wooden cage of a grand piano that needs to be "coupled" to the metal inner resonance structure.The roll cage itself, not beeing in full metal but hollow adds to this resonance
Hi Harry. Another great video - your videos are a firm fixture on my Sunday evenings! I wondered if you could explain what you mean by balancing the grip - and how it is done? Is it throttle and steering? I’d like to understand - always good to increase my knowledge! Thanks and keep going with your great videos. Peter
What automatically comes to mind: Low sitting turbo charged engine in an “off-roader”…will the headers etc. crack, due to temperature shocks, when water splashes on them while spooled up in low gears?! Entertaining as always! Best wishes
You do make me smile, for today's roads you need a Suzuki Jimney, forget potholes and localised flooding, plough them all and enjoy old school driving. I have a MK8 Golf 1.5 ETSI, great for visiting friends and relations, but for country roads, floods give me a Jimney!
Essential for those tricky drives to Waitrose.
I see what u did there
Lidl for me and my AMG 😂😂😂
High street puddles - the struggle is real.
@@dwftube Rufford ford here I come!
😂
I live in Germany and I am lucky enough to own a couple of Porsches bought from a main Porsche dealer. Before this Dakar 911 was available I asked my Porsche dealer if I can put an order in for a car. I was basically laughed at and told they only get allocated one car and it’s sold. I tried 3 other dealers. All laughed at me. Now used values in Germany start at 350,000 euros - £300,000. The car is still available on the Porsche configurator, and you can even spec one up. However try to order it and you are told they are all sold out. I love Porsche as a brand, but realistically nobody will ever get one of these special cars paying the new price you quoted. (Which you even thought was too high) Normal people will never be able to walk onto a dealership and order such a car. This is something important to mention. Because ultimately these cars are dream cars, - but they are just that. A dream. Reality is quite different. Great car, I want one. But even after selling the majority of my healthy organs, I cannot even get close to buying one. Anyway, - very jealous you got to play with one on your farm! Thanks for the video.
Make your own.
Until Porsche know you have spent £1m+ on their vehicles they won't talk. However if you want a 0-60 in 3 second bargain just go and buy a used Taycan, offer half what its on the forecourt at and see what happens.
As a new Porsche owner this pisses me off about the brand. I have been trying to buy a New GT3… nope. Cant
@@CHEDDARANDWAFFLES I just don't know why anyone who hasn't already flipped at least 12 new Porsche - and eaten the 200K losses that resulted - even expects to make it on any kind of contact list for the GT3, let alone actually able to buy one...
You're dreaming, man.
Have 4 Porsches at the moment and I feel the same. Love the cars, hate the dealer network.
"I think they're charging that much... Because they can" James May
Wasn't that Jeremy? On the Aston Martin Rapide?
@@SmallBlogV8 Upon closer inspection of that moment standing at the business park startline... You are correct, Jeremy said that and James gave an agreeable "mmmm"
God damn man, get a life 😂 😂
Well spotted and remembered though dude... now go outside and touch some grass or something.
@@SmallBlogV8 To quote Jeremy again, "Remind me to never have that man around for dinner"
It's not the real James May
"They're charging that much because of a number of Dunning-Kruger'ed people are willing to pay for it"
- Einstein,
Tuthill need to do a well priced kit for regular 911s to make ideal UK road cars. More travel, softer springs, taller tyres. They’d sell load and a big up yours to porsche
Pleasure to have a commentator without the predictable silliness of certain TV presenters or the affected, and frankly embarrassing, drivel of most aspiring road testers. Thanks Harry.
Everyone except Hammond, may and Christ Harris shouldn’t be anywhere near a camera and a car
I don't like to brag but I've got mine on order in the very same colour!!!,I've just made room for it in my display cabinet next to my 1:24 scale 959.
that elicited a belly laugh! thank you.
😂
Vroom vroom
He said it, He said ''it is chuffin quick''. Love you Hairy.
Is that dig at male pattern baldness?
yea he is very hairy
Prefer him bald.
Laughed out loud at the intro through the mud pond - if the opportunity presents, why wouldn't you!?! 😂
Especially if Porsche GB gotta clean it up afterwards 😂
Made me smile too and definitely got my attention!
Great way to kick off the video. Love it
Congratulations getting to 700k Harry 🎉🎉🎉🎉💥💥
The hare at 9:45 appears to have better traction than the 911 on wet grass. You can't beat evolution.
Yes, I thought that too. And the 'camera car' - Harry said it was the Range Rover Sport diesel - seemed to have better traction than the Dakar! Great Video Harry - Many Thanks indeed.
Tbf the hare has a lot less power to put down on the ground
and a lower ride height. @@ETYPEJaguar38
@@ETYPEJaguar38and way less weight
Not a patch on a tortoise mind
Price considerations aside, I think porsche and Lamborghini are onto something with these fast off-roaders. The roads in the uk and pretty much everywhere are very restrictive with speed limits and using these cars past 2 gear will get you in jail. Track days can be fun, but they also have restrictive rules, and can be quite crowded. So where can one have fun, without getting fines? Just like Harry, a wet grass field will do, but if you want some extra fun then some dunes and backroads in Morocco or Spain will do you well.
Why do you need to spend £250k+ to slide about in a muddy field at 60 mph. If you want to have fun off road, buy an off roader. Ariel Nomad, Bowler Wildcat, a rally car maybe.
I live in Colorado, and the roads are absolutely terrible from the freeze/thaw cycle. I am broke, but I would love a GT3. If I had one, I would find it very difficult to use on many of our poorly maintained roads. A Dakar or Sterrato would be much more practical for tearing around the city.
Congrats Harry, it looks as though you have now gone through the 700k mark! Well deserved.
Last Season I have been out in a Dakar as a passenger and as photographer, and it was in some way the biggest surprise in cars for 2023 for me personally. We were out in the ore mountains, it was kinda new, so the owner in the beginning was a bit shy, but over the day it got better and better. we discovered so much route possibilities, it was jsut epic.
I cant drive the Sterrato(even as passenger) sadly, due to my 2m height. In a Huracan Spider I looked over the windscreen. Maybe the Sterrato is the more epic car, but the Dakar was great from my POV, the Price beside!
This car was definitely designed for Surrey & Hants roads, potholes galore. Congrats on 700k subs, Harry!👏🏻
Ditto Sussex & Kent…! 😅👍
Ditto north Lancashire and Cumbria!
And we can throw pretty much all of Devon & Cornwall in there too!
We don't drive tractors because we're farmers... It's simply cos the roads are utter shi... 😅
This has to be the most usable practical 911 ever, especially with the normal seats and without the roll cage
Will there also be a review of this car on the Harry's Farm channel? 😀
🙏🙏🙏
He could use the red tow hook to pull a small trailer with a goat on it. Don't know if he has a goat. I won't have goats on our farm - don't like them. But they are good in front of the camera in multi-cam action shots (as long as you get the lighting right).
Fastest lawnmower?
I saw one in the showroom here in the UK, and what surprised me as a 964/996 owner was its relatively enormous size (in addition to the relatively enormous cost!)
I 100% agree. We had a PCGB invitation evening at the Bugatti owners club last year...... I absolutely couldn't believe the physical size of the new Boxster - comparable to an ocean liner in bulk.
It's so expensive because people will pay for it.
That's what ibwas going to say
Unfortunately, that is the current state of the world. Though higher financing rates and some softening in used market are finally starting to bring out some glimpses of sensibility
Exactly
Exactly…
If people will pay for it, Porsche should produce more of them, or maybe create a new limited edition on the same platform. Kind of unlimited numbers of limited editions, quite smart.
Can we please get Harry to 1m subs. I can't believe he's not already there. Best RUclips car content for reviews
it will come
How do you propose we do that? I'm a subscriber and I don't see what else I can do. It's down to Harry really isn't it?
Yeah it’s excellent if you’re a relic living on a bankrupt rock in the North Atlantic. Apart from that he has the charisma of a broom handle.
@@JCDenton95 Yikes, Tell us how you really feel
@samuelgarrod8327 He regularly has videos with well over 1m views. Obviously a lot of other people watching but not subscribing.
Please make an extended version of this episode. I could watch this for an hour or two. What a car! Thanks, Harry! I have updated my bucket list accordingly 😂👍🏼👍🏼 Congratulations on 700K subscribers! 🙌🏼
Nobody does reviews like Harry, just great, also, huge congrats to hitting 700k, Very well deserved.
Reflecting on all these passionate insights, it's evident we're all united by our love for these machines, regardless of whether they're parked in our garages or exist only in our dreams.
Safe to say that one is Harry's bucket list. Fabulous. Thanks Harry.
I kept expecting to see Boss Hogg or Buford T. Justice chasing you around that field 😂
The rabbit/hare was giving it a good run for it's money in the field! - Looked like it cornered better on the wet grass than the Porsche too! 😄
wet grass is crazy slippery - advantage rabbit.
I have a love hate thing going on with Harrys Porsche reviews,
one of his reviews made me pull the trigger and order my Gts, I love it.
He's enthusiasm for Porsche really stands out for me.
I used to own/race Porsches. Love them. Have an AMG now. Love it (I am older and fatter). I did test drive a GTS recently for fun - brilliant car!
Brag
It's not "enthusiasm" for Porsches. The reason all medias are full of Volkswagen Group content is because that corporation pushes press cars to them so aggressively and thus gives them a free source for content to get clicks on. Press cars and then lavish, well-catered press trips to exotic and warm locations too. And a constant stream of press releases designed to fill their content with. It's sort-of planned by their behemoth of a marketing machine...all done to get your money.
@@pistonburner6448 how long did it take you to work that out Sherlock.
@@mattmorris2867 It does take several years of systematically studying a wide range of medias, university education in marketing, then further research including matching marketing theory with empirical research.
Plus it helped being sponsored by Volkswagen Group and seeing their operations from the inside.
Sounds like that 50mm higher suspension but without the extra lift option, with it's lots of travel and compliance should be a standard option for the UK on all 911s.
Porsche certainly know their target audience and play them perfectly.
They’ve been to the same college as Leica Cameras!
Rich RUclipsrs
Great video as always, but I also liked the Geneva Motorshow Videos from 2017-2019 and I was kinda hoping one would drop today.
Just saw one on the road (outside Cape Town), definitely stands out.
How are things in Cape Town? Still worth visiting?
@@filipvonzagoramy god I can’t imagine visiting, let alone living there
Endless crime, homeless people everywhere, huge informal settlements, scheduled power cuts (4 - 6 hours a day), filth everywhere, corruption, etc...
So maybe no.
But some can buy a 911 Dakar. So they are doing well.
@@NarcFreedomOne of the most amazing places on the planet. Don't miss it.
19 seconds in and you're getting a huge thumbs up and a comment on one of the best intros I've ever seen! Well done Harry!!!
The new Top Gear 20:00 on Sunday night. Fantastic!
I didn't know until now how much I was going to enjoy watching Harry drive a 911 though a field! 😂 Looks like he had fun with this one, and I enjoyed getting to see it.
Love that fixed rear spoiler. Wish they'd fit it to the other 911's. Looks way better than the automatic one fitted to "normal" 911's, which when it lifts, makkes the rear of the car look like its been in a shunt. 😮
Harry, as always a great video, many thanks for your efforts.
But those actually serve a purpose, and serve it well
Allowing it to retract reduces drag and probably adds an extra mpg. Not a big difference, but an important gain with all the laws about maintaining a certain average efficiency across all cars a brand produces. It might give that little bit of leeway to design cars like this after all.
Harry you're the best reviewer in the world. thank you. I saw one of these in the racing livery and thought it looked odd on the road but looks better in your film.
Probably the most suitable British roads edition
Yep.
And on our terrible roads with all the speed bumps I bet in a street race this is one of the fastest things going.
Perfect for the roads of Bristol which are now barely better than cart tracks… maybe the best 911 for the UK currently on sale for daily use!😀😀😀
Considering the current plague of potholes I agree, those tyres will save you a lot of money with their high sidewalls.
You drove that through the field like you stole it Harry. Great review as always.
For the same price, £246k used, you could get a new V8 Cayenne S with plenty of options, AND a new 992 GTS with plenty of options! Madness.
Let’s hope they make it into a standard model for the 992.2. Standard seats, no roll cage, less complicated suspension system (same height), standard Carrera engine, and they’d have a sales winner.
Then it's not an off-roader.
@@Gorilla_Jones I meant same ride height as the Dakar, but they could make it in a cheaper way for a less expensive model. You could almost do a fixed-height steel spring version, you don’t need a multi height air system for a cheaper model.
The only reason 99% of buyers will get this is the limited availability.
@@Gorilla_Jones - Because every single owner will take it off-road....lol
Absolutely! 👍🏼
I saw one live last autumn. With the race liveries and basket thingy on top. Looked pretty sick.
"Rothman's" got "Roughroads"... Haha.
As with the lambo , only Harry can thrash around on his farm and do a proper test on these bonkers cars . Love it .
Sad to think that probably most of them that are sold won't be used to their full potential .
Cheers Harry 👊
Loving that uncovered plastic oil pan
Classic VAG
The sills are protected …. By aluminium 😂
First Porsche I've liked in a long time. Makes sense with our potholed roads and I could even take it across fields on my fishing trips.
You would think as a Dakar edition the fuel tank should be pretty massive? Perhaps remove the roll cage and fit a larger tank there.
Have to have the cage to rally it
Such a great video, thanks Harry. I sold my last 911 8 years ago. Damn if I'm not thinking of remortgaging the house and buying another one. Thanks for that too, Harry! The Dakar would be ideal in Joburg with the potholes we have. And we don't get points for speeding. Perfek.
I just marvel at how Porsche so seamlessly integrates the info screen into the dash of all their vehicles, when almost every other car just sticks an iPad on top.
Alfa Romeo also does it on Giulia
It's more a horrific German economy (self-inflicted) that makes them cheap out rather than engineering an expensive display and switchgear.
Hi Harry Well done on 700K subscribers - richly deserved for such enjoyable and informative videos. I am pleased to say I was one of your earlier subscribers and look forward to every new video. I also like Harry's Farm and hope you continue regular updates even though you are changing how the farm is operating in the future. Best wishes Philip
Thank you for the real world review in. Wet grassy field!!!!
Hope Porsche sees the light and makes it a mainstream option for 911s
Thanks for the warts too the sport seats, smaller tank and the roll cage!
I’d get the green a d wrap it in Martini or Gulf Weyer colors
It makes perfect sense with the state of the roads in the uk
Blah blah blah.
I’m not a huge fan of how the Dakar looks on the road, but I loved this video and all the off road content, especially when you through it around the bend on the road, I wanted a replay.
The one to have; the only one that I would get on and up my (steep) driveway
Not the Lambo Huracán Sterrato?
Nice! Life must be sweet for a vlogger who get´s to muck about in a 911 Dakar, and is sweet for the viewers who get to witness it. My kind of car! Thanks Harry!
When are they going to put the top coat on?
Grey primer is the new look.
I just subscribed, and I'm so glad I have! Seeing a 911 (992) being driven quickly on a field looked so strange. Fantastic.
This sort of vehicle is the most sensible sports car for the roads in UK
That big, heavy, noisy 2-seater?
Agree about the seats Harry!
First one ❤
No that's me 😜
Can you imagine the service dept at Porsche UK looking at that car when harry returns it
Another fantastic review
He almost certainly had it jet washed when it was being weighed
Brilliant video. I could watch that off road joy riding all day. Thanks Harry.
Hugely entertaining watching HM blat a brand new £170k+ 911 around a sopping field. Love it!
Tom Barr -Smith in Oz drove his across the Simpson desert. Had it a week, sorted out proper protection and away he went. BTWm Tom is 80 plus! Total legend
Wonderful review. Unfortunately I will never be in a position to afford such a car but what a concept.
What came across so clearly was how car companies have gone down the wrong rabbit hole. Bigger wheels, low profile tyres and rock hard suspension what we need is
Less grip, more ride height, higher tyres.
Today’s roads are so bad a car that simply dismissed them was a joy to watch.
Who would have thought !
Wonderful and superb review as always. Thanks Harry
Harry, Harry. U are an ICON! Thank you!
Love the rear end and fixed spoiler. Best looking 992 from the back by a mile.
I have one of these. Same spec as yours. Fantastic vehicle. The perfect car for Cotswolds roads. I own/ have owned Astons, Turbo Ss, and GT3s. Never previously had so many positive comments when I park outside Waitrose. Oh and, as usual, great video!
Tit
Buckets are a must if one DOES use it as intended and not on A and B british roads.
If you want to do a Targa, you have to have full harness, and the buckets are made for them as such.
If you want comfort Harry, buy a GTS, drove one only last week, fantastic machine and very comfortable. And save $$$. I see the dakar as fairly priced for the effort to test and develop.
Congrats on 700K.
Love to see an Aston touched with the Dakkar brush. Maybe a shooting brake.
like the v8 vantage zagato shooting brake shape but all the gear
That's an enticing concept
well Harry, if you don't like the seats, go for the 18-way sports seats and leave out the roll-bar in your configuration and all of a sudden you have the perfect daily sports car driver for UK B-roads :-) as for price? Porsches are known for their apothecary pricing and maybe, but only maybe provided Porsche does not make the Dakar a standard version in the future, you may fetch also a better resale price, even with miles on it. Have done over 5k miles in my Roughroads livery car with bucket seats and roll cage and I love it. best daily driver from Porsche I ever had, even with 99% tarmac driving.
Other than that, love your videos. Cheers from Switzerland
Porsche have clearly been doing their research into the current state of UK roads! Great video as always 👍
Another great video Harry! This would be the perfect car for the rural roads i live on here in Northern Ireland, shame i would need to sell my house to be able to afford it!
Thanks for the review and especially thanks for rekindling my interest in the Dakar. Amazing routes, amazing coverage. All the best
Congratulations Harry on reaching 700K subscribers! 😁😁😁
700 000 subscribers, well done! But can't understand why this channel is not 1 000 000+ a long time ago.
That rear end is really good.. Like the exhaust design. Great car control in the field.
Just seen one inFour Oaks, awesome and with the Rothmans paintwork. Very special. One of my fave ever 911’s. If only Icoyld trade up for one
Just for comparison I configured a 4 GTS to the base spec of a Dakar - the difference melts to 32k EUR or 27.5k GBP. People are spending this money for paint and carbon pieces. What baffles me, is that you could neither get the Dakar with parking cameras nor with a distronic system.
Maybe we will see this kind of concept as an unlimited version for the next iteration of the 911?
What a car! Seeing it hooning around the fields and then darting on the road, is great to behold. Pricey, but lovely. Sounds like such a versatile beast. I'd choose it
Great review, the sell quote for me is "it dismisses potholes" brilliant. There will be alot more potholes in the UK going forward
Harry - To turn traction control off you have to hold the button for 5 seconds. The mode you put it (2 seconds) is an Inbetween ‘sports’ setting only.
Brilliant video as.always.Was that a rabbit or hare or something else running for it's life at 9:50?
Superb review Harry. So was the Lambo video. Both cars are worth the price of admission.
Thanks Harry. I’d love one of these. Lottery might help me on that one. For not I’ll have to stick with my 997.2 C2S PDK.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I got the impression that you will eventually get one of these - minus the bucket seats, that is - amd very soon! And thank you for yet another entertaining video ! Cheers !!
Awesome car! And if you don't buy the extra cage you even have a proper storage behind the seats for longer trips.
I found this very interesting and the car appealing. I did a power to weight calculation and found that the power to weight ratio works out at the same as my Alpine A110S.
Good to see Harry giving the Porsche a good workout. 😃
Harry always having much to much fun ,great car great man
great video Harry! thank you
I like harry talking about the protection stopping just under the bumper and then the cut to the plastic oil sump bottom that all the 911s seem to come with now at 5:04 lol. Doubt that'll stand up to much in the way of rocks.
Congratulations on 700k+ subscribers Harry!! Well done sir, all the best!
Tim G 🇺🇸
A conceptional reason for the acoustical difference can be the roll cage, that links resonances from the engine and chassis to the roof and makes it transmit and enhance those, as now the whole car is one resonance body and any vibration insulation from the lower part of the car to the top are somehow "overrun". Can be compared a bit to the wooden cage of a grand piano that needs to be "coupled" to the metal inner resonance structure.The roll cage itself, not beeing in full metal but hollow adds to this resonance
Another superb review. Thanks so much, Harry.
Nice review as always !!!
Hi Harry. Another great video - your videos are a firm fixture on my Sunday evenings! I wondered if you could explain what you mean by balancing the grip - and how it is done? Is it throttle and steering? I’d like to understand - always good to increase my knowledge! Thanks and keep going with your great videos. Peter
What automatically comes to mind:
Low sitting turbo charged engine in an “off-roader”…will the headers etc. crack, due to temperature shocks, when water splashes on them while spooled up in low gears?!
Entertaining as always!
Best wishes
You do make me smile, for today's roads you need a Suzuki Jimney, forget potholes and localised flooding, plough them all and enjoy old school driving. I have a MK8 Golf 1.5 ETSI, great for visiting friends and relations, but for country roads, floods give me a Jimney!
Interesting - I took a 75 yo friend car shopping two weeks ago - as soon as she saw the Jimney that was game over. No second thoughts
Cheers Harry as a 991.2 4S owner I’m due an upgrade 👍👍
The in the dash integrated screen looks great! (The only logic and sane position a screen should actually take in a car...) Thank you Porsche!
Superb !
Remember when Harry used to bring his grandson along and much he loved it when grandpa went fast?! 😊