This Porsche 944 Looks Like A Factory Wagon That Never Existed

The Porsche 944 was never offered as a wagon, but Carpoint has decided to fix that. The German Porsche specialist has turned the classic sports car into a hand-built shooting brake called the GT-K44. It has the sort of shape that could easily have come from a Porsche design studio in the 1980s.

There is one small problem: the conversion costs about as much as a new 911 Carrera.

This is far more than simply adding a bigger hatch to the back of a 944. Carpoint spends several hundred hours on each car, reworking the roof, B-pillars, rear quarter panels, and entire tail section. The roof now runs further toward the back, while huge quarter windows give the car its wagon-like shape. A new rear hatch completes the transformation, with the taillights modified around the larger opening.

The idea comes from the Porsche 924 Kombi built by German coachbuilder Günter Artz in the early 1980s. Carpoint founder Andreas Freund actually drove one of those rare cars for several months before deciding to build his own version. He then worked with designer Michael Söhngen to adapt the idea to the wider 944.

The first GT-K44 uses a 944 S2 as its starting point. That means a naturally aspirated 3.0-liter four-cylinder producing 211 hp (157 kW). The car shown here wears Oak Green paint and gets period-style Pascha upholstery. Customers can also start with a 944 Turbo producing either 220 hp or 250 hp (164 or 186 kW). Manual and automatic donor cars are both accepted, although Carpoint won’t convert one transmission type to the other.

There is a long list of ways to personalize the finished car, including wheels, suspension, exhaust, and interior options. Carpoint charges €100,000 before tax for the conversion, which works out to around $117,000. In Germany, the total rises to €119,000 with VAT. And that price does not include the 944 you need to start with.

Carpoint can help find a donor car, and it doesn’t need to be a perfect collector example. Every GT-K44 still involves hundreds of hours of fabrication, bodywork, and paint. The company plans to build just ten examples, which makes sense when you consider how much work goes into each one. It’s an expensive way to get a 944 wagon, but then again, there has never really been another way to get one.