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.
The Wagon Conversion Is Limited To 10 Cars
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.
Pricing Starts At €100,000 Before Tax
The conversion alone costs €100,000 before tax, or €119,000 (about $128,000) once Germany's 19 percent VAT is added. That figure does not include the donor car, which buyers must provide or help pay CarPoint to locate separately.
Wheels, suspension, interior trim, and exhaust are all customer-specified, and any optional equipment or extra individualization work gets priced on top of the base conversion. This is a commissioned build rather than a fixed package, closer in spirit to the one-off Porsche commissions the factory itself occasionally builds for wealthy clients.
CarPoint has kept the run to just 10 commissions, a cap the shop describes as deliberate rather than a supply constraint. That scarcity puts the GT-K44 in company with other small-batch Porsche reinterpretations, including TechArt's GTclassic 911 restomod, a limited-run 964-based project launched in 2026, and the slantnose-style builds that keep circulating through the tuning scene.
Unlike those 911-based projects, the GT-K44 uses the 944's transaxle layout and front-engine, rear-transmission balance. CarPoint is aiming at collectors who like oddball Porsche history. The shop is betting those buyers will spend six figures on a shape Porsche itself never approved.
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