2024 Porsche 911 Dakar bows out with wacky paint job

The final 2024 Porsche 911 Dakar has rolled off the production line painted wearing a special livery echoing the famous 911 that won the 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally.

The last vehicle of a highly sought-after 2500-unit production run, the milestone 911 Dakar was created by the Porsche’s Sonderwunsch (special wishes) bespoke division and is painted in the same Signal Yellow and Gentian Blue Metallic colour scheme as the historic race winner.

Created for an Italian collector, the tri-colour livery Dakar is finished off with Lampedusa Blue and features wild yellow rims with a light blue edging.

Said to have been painted by hand, other changes include Lampedusa Blue accents for the headlamps and bash plates while the protective side sills that have all been painted gloss black.

Inside, there’s black Alcantara seats that get yellow stitching, complemented by yellow accents across the dash, gear lever and door cards.

Introduced back in November 2022, the 911 Dakar was a heavily modified 911 GTS fitted with rally-spec suspension, underbody armour, widened arches, widened tracks and all-terrain rolling stock.

Power and torque (353kW/570Nm) came from a twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre flat-six engine which drive all four wheels via an eight-speed ‘PDK’ dual-clutch automatic transmission.

Dedicated off-road and Rally drive modes helped adapt the all-terrain sports car to myriad loose surfaces and the resulting driving, yielding a fast and surprisingly capable vehicle.

Just a handful were imported into Australia, each priced from $491,400 plus on-roads, making it the fourth-most-expensive 911 in the line-up at the time.

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