No one who pays even a quantum of attention to Porsche zeitgeist is unaware of the past decade’s proliferation of hot rodding ...

Buyers who want to lean further into the 911 Dakar's rally heritage can option the Rallye Design Package which takes cues directly from the Porsche racecar that won the 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally.

Handover is part of ongoing withdrawal process of French forces in Senegal, following return of Marechal and Saint-Exupery ...

A fair amount, it turns out. As we reported in our First Drive story, the Porsche 911 Dakar isn’t just a brilliant piece of marketing BS.Its most obvious visual distinction compared to a regular ...

In 2003, the rally’s 25th anniversary, it skipped both Paris and Dakar for the first time, as well as all of West Africa, because of fears over security.

The new car pays homage to the first all-wheel-drive 911, which surprised the world when it won the grueling 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally, a legendary multiday race across Europe and North Africa.

The Dakar ‘The Dakar’ began life in 1978 as the Paris-Dakar Rally. It ran annually from France to Senegal until 2007 but when the 2008 event was cancelled due to security concerns, the rally ...

Twelve days earlier, on New Year’s Day, sprawling crowds turned out in Paris’s Place de la Concorde to witness the start of the most brutal rally race on earth: the Dakar.

Originally run from Paris to Dakar, Senegal, the rally moved to South America in 2009 after threats of terrorist attacks in Mauritania and Mali convinced organizers that they needed to leave Africa.

Next year the Paris-Dakar rally-raid will actually go from Paris to Dakar. In recent years the route has wandered all over the Sahara, last year runni ...

Seeing a 959 Paris-Dakar have layers of protective bodywork peeled like an onion is mesmerizing, revealing what truly advanced engineering looked like back in the ’80s. Compared to modern race ...