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Hillclimbing a priceless Porsche 953 Paris-Dakar in the wet | Top Gear — RedlineArchive
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Hillclimbing a priceless Porsche 953 Paris-Dakar in the wet | Top Gear

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Driving a Porsche 953 Paris-Dakar up a hill. Easy, right? After all, it's a car that was designed to do just that. But driving someone else's priceless 953, from Porsche's museum collection in Stuttgart, up a slippery, off-camber hill, at pace, the first time you've sat in the car? That adds a little pressure. Throw in a few thousand spectators and some telly cameras and... here's what it's like to drive the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed with TG mag's Ollie Marriage. Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WATCH MORE TOP GEAR: First Looks: https://bit.ly/TGFirstLooks  First Drives: https://bit.ly/TGFirstDrives American Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: https://bit.ly/TGAmericanTuned MORE ABOUT TOP GEAR: Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig. This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios. Service & Feedback https://www.bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us/



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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. It is sometimes referred to as the 911 4x4, as it used the developmental, manually controlled four-wheel drive system that was intended to be used on the 959. Travelling on an extremely enhanced suspension, powered by a 300 bhp (224 kW), 6-cylinder engine, and weighing in at 2,750 lb (1,247 kg), it ...

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