Porsche Never Built a 944 Wagon, So This German Shop Is Making 10 of Them

Porsche has been teasing itself with longroofs for pretty much its entire existence. There was a factory 928 wagon study that never escaped the building, and we’ve seen seen anything with a proper cargo hold reach showrooms until the Panamera Sport Turismo.

So back in the early ’80s, Hanover customizer Günter Artz decide to take matters into his own hands and grafted wagon tails onto roughly 20 Porsche 924 Turbos himself. Fortunately fur us, one of those cars ended up haunting a German enthusiast for nearly four decades, and that obsession has now materialized as the Carpoint GT-K44 seen here.

Lost to a Paris Auction

Carpoint founder Andreas Freund spent the mid-’80s regularly running one of those Artz wagons down to Lake Garda. Then the car vanished into a Paris auction, and Freund spent the next 40 years hunting for another without any luck.

The breakthrough came back in 2022, when his designer friend Michael Söhngen handed him a birthday gift in the form of a sketch. It showed a 944 wagon in Oak Green with checkerboard Pascha seats, and Freund liked it so much that chassis one was built to look exactly like that drawing.

Cut From Steel, Not Fiberglass

Keep in mind, this isn’t technically the first 944 longroof. DP Motorsport capped a handful of “Cargo” builds with reworked VW Passat wagon roofs in the late ’80s, but Carpoint’s approach is much more intentional.

The 944’s signature glass bubble gets tossed out the window (no pun intended), replaced by a sheet-metal roof and a tailgate that reaches all the way down to the bumper. It even slightly bites in the roof itself (roughly 40 centimeters), meaning bulky cargo loads need to be loaded from above. The B-pillars and rear quarters are re-engineered to accept proper C-pillars and larger side glass, while the taillights are split so the tailgate carries only reflectors.

Hundreds of hours of metalwork and paint go into each and every car, and the rear folding seat is still present in all of the aftermath.

Your Donor, Your Wagon

Chassis one rides on a 1991 944 S2, meaning a 3.0-liter inline-four (still among the largest four-cylinders ever fitted to a production car) sending 211 horsepower through a 5-speed manual. But the donor is your call, and Carpoint will convert anything from a 163-hp base car to a full-fat Turbo S.

Inside, the black leather is broken up by Pascha inserts on the seats and door cards, the dizzying (and beloved) checkerboard velour Porsche first rolled out on the 928 all the way back in 1977.

The Karlsruhe outfit has been restoring Porsches since the ’80s and machines around 2,000 replacement parts in-house, so the fabrication chops are well established. Just 10 commissions are planned.

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Pricing & Availability

The shooting brake conversion starts at €100,000 (~$114,000) plus VAT, and that’s before the donor 944 you’ll need to supply yourself. With just 10 commissions planned, we’d suggest getting in line sooner rather than later. The reference car broke cover at the Nürburgring’s Transaxle Anniversary celebration and is currently listed on Elferspot (price on application).