Cross-Africa in a Porsche

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/9508665/Across-Africa-in-a-classic-Porsche-in-pictures.html?frame=2323841

27 breakdowns.

That was cool. A real-life combination of the Top Gear Africa and Middle East specials.

I like this guy. I clicked through to his blog and he's prepping a C4 corvette to drive 10,000K to Vietnam. The name of the trip. V8nam. He's a kindred spirit.

Tom Suddard wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/9508665/Across-Africa-in-a-classic-Porsche-in-pictures.html?frame=2323841 27 breakdowns.

I immediately knew this was not a 911 when I saw the number of breakdowns. I had the over/under at 50.

Cool trip, I would like to do something similar one day. I think I'll stick with a 4x4 though.

944 is not exactly the car I would have chosen for that trip

I'd be a hell of a lot more impressed if they didn't have a support vehicle.

Yeah, I think that trip would be way more fun in my Trooper than in a 944.

My favorite photo was of the 944's smashed rear end; that'll teach you to bring a support vehicle!

Copy and paste from his blog about the V8nam trip.

The importance of choosing the right vehicle for this sort of road trip is something which cannot be overstated; in many ways, it is just as important as the choice of route when it comes to determining what ‘character’ the trip will take on. Just like travelling by train engenders a journey with a completely different feel to the same trip undertaken on horseback, so, more subtly, different vehicles give a different feel to a road trip – for instance, a long journey in a Bentley will generate completely different memories, conversations and experiences to one undertaken in a Lotus.

So what form do we want this 3-month journey to take? Just like the African Porsche Expedition, ‘challenging, unlikely, but ultimately achievable’ sums it up – which means I’m not taking a sensible 4×4. Therefore a car is required, and so a compromise is in order; one which treads the fine line between sensible and outrageous. Ideally, we want a car which is trustworthy, but not too trustworthy; is eyecatching, but not garish; unlikely, but not impossible; leftfield, but not downright immature.

I'll say it again, I like this guy.

Awesome!

nice.

I'm personally a fan of cross-africa in a different porsche...a great watch if you haven't already....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2thf2NwMYE

I'd like to do something like this to promote Awareness for Diabetes.

Just not in a 944.