The Canadian version is even worse - still stupid, but now you’ve got extra drag too.

They should buy an SUV if they want an SUV, not suvvify a sportscar.

How to ruin a perfectly fine 911. This will drive worse for no real benefit, since nobody with thrash that thing offroad with that slightly increased right height. Modded 911 Safaris are cool, this is just fluff.

Can’t you say that about any somewhat collectible car?

This seems like a great candidate for an electromod. Original drivetrain is both crap and rare. Combine with a salvage Fiat 500e and you’ve got something interesting.

If something can be both “too rare” and yet not have much value, this car is it.

Too rare to modify. Too boring to restore. Too expensive to bother.

Dear Audi -

No. They fucking can’t. Read the Dakar rule book. Ryan King isn’t familiar with Dakar so this blog doesn’t represent the actual conditions. It’s heavy rule based competition. So the vehicles are very very heavily restricted. Including the engine size and power. Electric power needs to be limited comparable to the ICE…

1. Audi deserve to be faster because they’re putting effort into fuel saving. That was the original intention right- to improve the sport’s eco credentials?
If the others dont like it they too can make more efficient vehicles.

2.The BOP system is total shit.True, i havent looked into the *exact* details but it’s…

If it becomes a race of spending the most money then it’s a garbage race. The other companies should walk and leave the desert to Audi.

thank you.  the article makes none of that clear.

‘Level of performance’ isn’t really the issue - the Audi isn’t faster because they’ve done a better job, it’s faster because it’s not governed by the same rules that govern everybody else. In order to lure in Audi and its “pure electric” car (which is still powered by an ICE “generator”, with a larger fuel tank…

They look fun as hell. All the best to them.

If you get a teacher head chopped in the middle of the street, you would think differently

You’re right. Yeah, but that logic doesn’t get us to click on this post. lol.

Ah, the old ‘let’s tack “report” at the very end of an article title’ trick. Still using that one at Jalopnik, I see, to con people into clicking on stories that are (by your own admission) less than nothing. You're upholding such an excellent standard of automotive journalism, Bradley. Give yourself a big pat on the…

“Alesi is probably best known for his one and only Formula One win at the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix”

FIFY