Walter Roll presents the top five best Porsche rally cars of all time.

While few people may associate Porsche with rallying, the sports car maker is no stranger to blazing through deserts and off-road courses.

Last month, Porsche released a video of its top five rally cars, hosted by legendary rally racer Walter Roll.

The list begins with the Paris-Dakar 953. It was the first 911 to use all-wheel drive, a system that would later be used in the legendary 959, which did not compete in the Group B rally. Drivers Rene Medge and Dominique Lemoine won the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1984 in a 953, and while the 953 may come in at the bottom of this list, Rail really likes it, as he uses the 953 to switch from one car to the next. [This particular Cayenne, a stock Cayenne GTS with a 405-horsepower engine, won a grueling race from Moscow to Steppe, Mongolia, in 2007, covering more than 4,400 miles. The following year, he took 1st-6th place.

Third place went to the 924 Carrera GTS piloted by Rehl in the 1981 German Rally Championship; the 924 Carrera GTS was the first rally car with a turbocharged engine, so reliability must have been no problem.

The 911 SC Safari is second in the rankings, but many argue that it deserves first place; the 911 SC Safari has since spawned other 911 Safari cars, and its iconic looks have been imitated around the world. Porsche reinforced the body and added underbody protection to make the car more durable on rough roads, and in the 1978 race in Kenya, two 911 SC Safaris finished in second and third place, making Porsche the only team to finish the race with two cars.

First on the list? the 911 996 GT3 Zebra, which sounds like a bee attacking the sound of a revving chainsaw. The car, raced by the husband-and-wife Zeltner family, uses a six-speed manual transmission and differential locks to blast the power of the flat-six into dirt, dust, sand, and mud.

Click on the link above to hear the GT3 and see Rail drive the 996 and 953 as if he were back in his rally days. It's worth it.