Ken Cooke
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This Porsche tackles Baja!
No trick photography...This Porsche tackled a Jeep run, and I wonder if it could handle Baja just as competently?
![](http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/417587_3169992204231_1098240232_33105543_1946057405_n.jpg)
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The driver and his passenger get out of the vehicle to move some sand before getting back inside.
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Jeepers getting outside of their vehicles...curious.
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It made it up the sand hill climb!![:bounce:](./images/smilies/bouncing.gif)
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Off-camber section of trail...will the Porsche make it??![:?:](./images/smilies/puzzled.gif)
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Tight hair-pin turn
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Close to flipping on its side![:o](./images/smilies/shocked.gif)
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Plenty of clearance underneath this spirited superSUV!
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The Porsche completed the Tierra Del Sol run without incident in front of 50 Jeeps!
![](http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/430256_3170000324434_1098240232_33105558_1379853602_n.jpg)
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Last hillclimb...![:cool:](./images/smilies/cool.gif)
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Getting ready for the loose stuff...
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The Porsche made it!
![](http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/428237_3170019804921_1098240232_33105577_244458790_n.jpg)
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I like when people know how to play with their toys.
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1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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Thanks that was fun ... great photo's ..
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Wow, The 500hp, 100K Porsche Cayenne Turbo somewhere other then a paved road and valet parking.
Does that mean that your run wasnt that difficult? Its still just a small SUV with regular tires and basic ground clearance.
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Ken Cooke
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Quote: | Originally posted by Frank
Wow, The 500hp, 100K Porsche Cayenne Turbo somewhere other then a paved road and valet parking.
Does that mean that your run wasnt that difficult? Its still just a small SUV with regular tires and basic ground clearance. |
This was not a difficult run. The driver and his wife had fun, though.
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I'm only messing with you Ken.
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You would have loved to see where I used to drive a Subaru, in Baja!
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Quote: | Originally posted by David K
You would have loved to see where I used to drive a Subaru, in Baja! |
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Nice wheelstand
No worries
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German Engineering!
Quote: | Originally posted by Curt63
Nice wheelstand |
Fharfigneugen! (SP)
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Quote: | Originally posted by David K
You would have loved to see where I used to drive a Subaru, in Baja! |
I was thinking the same thing, just in an old Legacy. I guess it's hard for me to wrap my head around spending that much money on something that may
or may not get you from point A to point B, neither of which is necessary and hasn't been done before.
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No, before the Legacy model... 1977-1987 when Subaru made 4WD wagons, the BRAT and sedans with shift-on-the-fly from front wheel drive to four wheel
drive.
Subaru went to All Wheel Drive street cars without low range or height adjustment of the earlier models. I had three Subarus before they went to
AWD... here is my first:
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Bottomless sand of Shell Island (1978)
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Nearing El Crucero on the Baja 1000 course (1979)
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Calamajue Canyon
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Azufre Wash (1979)
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Matomi Canyon flash flood (1979)
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I use to take my 1972 Ford Pinto into Kennedy's camp off the road to La Bufadora and the Jeep people thought I was nuts. It was a very bad road then.
Never a problem going in or out.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Fharfigneugen! (SP) |
Fahrvergnügen (you were pretty close)
Harald Pietschmann
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They do have an pneumatic suspension option that provides over 10" ground clearance.
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Wow!
When $$$ is no object they can make almost anything capable of doing the almost extreme.
[Edited on 4-6-2012 by edm1]
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