Porsche'd to the Limit
Porsche'd to the Limit
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Two adventures, two mates, two wrecked Porsche 924s
The Porsche’d to the Limit series is ‘Top Gear’ meets ‘Jackass’ as it tracks the progress of two extreme adventures through the eyes of banger rally veterans Simon Laidlaw and Nick Gibbs. At the wheel of their clapped out Porsche 924s the pair manage to get lost, break down, sleep rough, freeze, bake, nearly die at the hands of an incompetent Latvian rally driver, and crash. A lot. All the while they are accompanied by cars as diverse as a Ford Granada hearse, a Citroen 2CV van and an Austin Allegro with no front windscreen.
Porsche’d to the Limit 1
The roll-call of Porsches that have successfully conquered the Sahara is Illustrious. Think of million pound four wheel drive dream machines like the 911 and the legendary 959.
Now another Porsche dares to match that achievement, except this time it’s not a rally prepped highly specced racing car. This time it is a 24 year-old Porsche 924 bought for just £300. Joining a rally for similarly pensionable rust-buckets, the 924’s optimistic two-man team aims to cover more than 4000 miles from London all the way past Dakar to Banjul in the Gambia via the Sahara desert. There’s no back-up, minimal preparation and plenty of blind faith that the 2.0 litre engine (mileage unknown) will survive. Over the breathtaking unfenced mountain passes of Morocco to the unpredictable Saharan wilderness in Mauritania, the Porsche suffers everything from shredded tyres to a broken clutch cable. But as the landscape shifts from sand and camels to tropical lushness, can the most unlikely desert-crossing Porsche ever complete the most arduous journey of its life?
Porsche’d to the Limit 2; Dancing on Ice
Rally veterans Nick Gibbs and Simon Laidlaw previously set out to prove the long-term integrity of Porsche’s 924 by coaxing a £300 wreck across the baking Sahara and into tropical Africa. Now the intrepid duo are back, only this time they’ve swapped sun for snow and ice. This rusty £400 166,000-miler has one month’s MoT left, zero prospect of passing another and a conspicuous cold-start problem.
Perfect, then, for a 2000-mile winter journey to the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia. On a nine-day back-road trek through the little-explored former-Soviet strongholds, they meet reckless rally drivers, stumble upon abandoned nuclear bunkers and test the car’s famed handling abilities on mud, gravel, snow and ice with a bunch of similarly unsuitable motors. With temperatures dropping to -15 degrees, can the most unlikely off-roader west of Moscow make it to the finishing line in Riga?
Porsche’d to the Limit –the real world, only more dangerous