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The 992 uses rack and pinion steering, along with MacPherson strut front suspension and rear multi-link suspension.The 992 has wide rear-wheel arches which will be a part of every model in the 992 generation (a design feature limited chiefly to high performance variants of previous 911 iterations) along with 20-inch wheels at the front and 21-inch wheels at the rear.
The Dakar was developed in 1991 by Barry Chantler of Dakar Cars in Dartford, Kent. A successor to the Rotrax, the Dakar uses a Range Rover chassis rather than the more conventional sports car style. The Rotrax was a RWD 2-seater buggy built on a space frame chassis using Cortina suspension and engines.
These cars also featured Dr. Ferdinand Porsche's signature embroidered on the seats in the headrest area. Of the 875 examples produced, only 300 were imported to the US (120 coupes, 100 cabrio's and 80 Targa's), 250 were sold in Germany, 50 went to the UK, and the remainder to other countries. Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Speedster "Turbo-Look"
Unlike the World Rally Championship the Dakar didn't require a minimum number of cars built for homologation. In 1985, three cars were entered in the Dakar rally with the proposed 959 body and the rest of the systems but they still used the engine of the 953 rally cars. These cars didn't finish (only one due to mechanical failure however).
LIAZ 100.55 D was the first Czech truck, which was attended by Dakar Rally, in 1985. The crew Jiří Moskal - Jaroslav Joklík - Radek Fencl finished the race at 13th place in the truck category. The second truck LIAZ crossed the finish line outside the classification. The biggest success LIAZ 100.55 D . 13th place on the Rallye Paris-Dakar 1985
The 1984 Paris-Dakar winning Porsche 953 driven by René Metge and Dominique Lemoyne. The Porsche 953 was a heavily modified variant of the 911, designed and built specifically to compete in the 1984 Paris–Dakar Rally. It was a short lived model, as it was replaced in 1985 by the 959.
The Bowler Wildcat is an off-road vehicle originally made by Bowler Offroad.It is an evolution of the Bowler Tomcat using some components from the Land Rover Defender.. The initial version, Wildcat 100, had a tubular chassis with 100" wheelbase and used the same body style as the previous box-section chassis "Tomcat 100".
NOTE: Because of the 2007 killing of French tourists in Mauritania, the ASO postponed and relocated the Dakar Rally in 2008, and the race became the 2008 Central Europe Rally. The ASO deferred all Dakar entries to that event, which is technically part of the Dakar lineage.