This light gray 911 Dakar cost $240k when new and, 500 miles later, sold on Bring a Trailer for $340k
April 20, 2025 at 14:32
- A little-used Porsche 911 Dakar has sold for $100k over its new price at auction.
- It’s just the latest Dakar with almost no miles to have been sold for a huge profit.
- The 2023 911 Dakar featured extra ground clearance, arch flares and a GTS engine.
If you decided to do the sensible thing and put your money into stocks rather than buy a Porsche 911 Dakar, you might want to look away now. Because while the stock market has dropped like a lowrider with punctured airbags, Dakars are making huge profits for sellers on the used market.
The off-road-inspired, rally-throwback Porsche was intended to be driven hard and dirty, and its generous ground clearance ought to make it the most daily-friendly 911 of all. But more often than not, these machines are being tucked away in climate-controlled garages, traded like fine art rather than torn through desert trails. And then flipped so the owners can make a quick, and apparently very large, profit.
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The stylish gray 2023 911 Dakar you see see here cost $239,640 when new, but has just crossed Bring a Trailer’s virtual auction block where it sold for $340,000. And this is far from an isolated case. Since the beginning of the year, five other Dakars have sold for more than $300k on the same website, the priciest changing hands for a bonkers $365,000.
Sure, the Dakar is more special than the average 911 and the first of its kind from Porsche, even though it takes inspiration from the automaker’s classic rally cars and people have been building their own safari-style 911s for years. So we get that wealthy buyers will be prepared to pay handsomely to get one. But they’re not exactly rare by limited edition standards, since Porsche is building 2,500 units.
And you just know that it’s gone down so well that there’s bound to be a Dakar version of the 992.2 along in a couple of years. Are the people paying wildly over the odds for Dakars today going to be left looking as foolish as the people who paid a fortune for used 911Rs right before Porsche revealed essentially the same package in the GT3 Touring?
Maybe, but at least they’ll have fun in a really great car between now and then. This one contrasts its low-key exterior paint (a $3,270 option) with a $3,890 carbon roof, bright red plaid-trimmed bucket seats and a $3,980 Burmester audio system. The 473 hp (480 PS) twin-turbo, 3.0-liter flat-six is barely run in, the odometer showing just 500 miles (800 km). One can only hope the new owner at least gets it to four figures.
Images: Bring a Trailer
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