But perhaps one of the brightest stars of the era was the glorious Porsche 959. It did have a brief competition history with a prototype winning the 1984 Paris-Dakar, while it also won the ...

The Porsche 959 was introduced in the 1980s as a cutting-edge supercar, featuring a 2.85-liter twin-turbocharged flat-six engine that delivers 450 horsepower. This powerhouse enables the car to ...

there was another Porsche supercar quietly and discretely on display upstairs in the same hall. That, of course, was the 959. But not just any 959: this was the original Gruppe B prototype.

former CEO of Porsche AG of the development of the Porsche 959. That was before it started getting expensive. At that point, Helmuth Bott, Porsche R&D director got frightened. Costs ballooned ...

In reality, the 959 did not actually fail U.S. safety tests because it never took them. Porsche lost about $500,000 for each 959 sold, due to the complexity of the car, so it only produced 292 of ...

the Porsche 959, was introduced in the 1980s. This technological marvel was the prelude to many of the automaker's current bestsellers. Alongside the Porsche 959 was an odd offshoot of the Porsche ...