Porsche was a small carmaker in the 1960s, with no easy financial justification for chasing Le Mans. The company’s leaders simply decided that a seeming impossibility didn’t sound so impossible.

There are several different iterations of the Porsche 917, but none were as brutally powerful as the 917/30 Spyder. Built to compete in the Can-Am championship, it used a twin-turbo version of ...

An Important Racer The Porsche 917, loosely based on the Porsche 908 racer before it, was introduced to motorsport as a homologation model, where 25 copies were required to be assembled if the car ...

Porsche decided to make radical changes to the 908/2. Inspired by the Hillclimb-spec 909, the 908/3 arrived with a new open-cockpit shell, a shorter wheelbase, and a curb weight of only 500 kg ...

Now Porsche is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 917’s debut at the Geneva Auto Show on March 12, 1969, with a collection of restored 917s as well as one very, very special concept car.

There were only 37 Porsche 917s ever built, with the car reaching new heights for Porsche by winning Le Mans in 1970 and 1971, doing exactly what it was designed to do. Something it wasn’t ...

Consider, if you will, a car from days gone by that stands alone as an icon of the sport. There is no more important car to the history of endurance racing than the Porsche 917. Without this car ...

In 2013, his company, Canepa Design, released a video showing a 1,000-hp Porsche 917/10 Can-Am car being driven on the street. Canepa is a big Porsche fan, but he doesn't consider anything sacred.

Porsche is celebrating the birthday of one of its most iconic racing cars ever made – the 917. The Porsche 917 racing car debuted at the Geneva Motor Show on March 12, 1969.

Porsche has shown a modern interpretation of the 917 race car which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Sadly, the stunning piece of work isn't intended for production.

The 917 was said to be priced around the value of 10 new 911 sports cars, and that wouldn't even be enough for Porsche to cover the development costs, still. The original engine was developed by ...