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The Porsche 944 Wagon Porsche Never Built Is Finally Real

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The Porsche 944 Wagon Porsche Never Built Is Finally Real

CarPoint has turned a Porsche 944 into something Porsche itself never built: a wagon. The German outfit's GT-K44 stretches the coupe's roofline into a proper shooting brake, and only 10 will exist.

The project traces back to the Artz 924 Turbo Kombi, a wagon conversion Günter Artz built around 20 of in the early 1980s. CarPoint founder Andreas Freund owned one for months decades ago. The GT-K44 is his and designer Michael Söhngen's modern answer to it.

CarPoint's reference build starts from a 1991 Porsche 944 S2, powered by a 3.0-liter inline-four producing 211 horsepower. That car wears Oak Green paint and a Pascha-pattern interior, following Söhngen's original sketch for the shape.

The bodywork is extensive as CarPoint extends and raises the roofline, rebuilds the rear quarter panels, reshapes the B-pillars, and fits a new tailgate with revised rear lights around the enlarged opening. New side glass and custom-fitted rear glass complete the silhouette, and the car keeps its 2+2 seating.

Each conversion needs several hundred hours of cutting, welding, bodywork, and a full exterior respray, included as standard. CarPoint describes the labor simply as hundreds of hours of metalwork and paint going into each and every car.

Customers supply their own donor 944, though CarPoint says it can help source one. The shop recommends the 944 S2's naturally aspirated four or a 944 Turbo with 220 hp or 250 hp. Both manual and automatic donors qualify, since CarPoint does not touch the transmission itself.

The conversion alone costs €100,000 before tax, or €119,000 (about $128,000) once Germany's 19 percent VAT is added.


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