There is a great pool of supercars and hypercars to choose from in the decades of the 80s and 90s. Many of these cars pushed the boundaries of design and engineering while wooing the world with their ...
In the mid-Eighties, two supercars fought for the title of the World’s Fastest…and for pole position on my bedroom wall. In red, there was Ferrari with its F40, and in the silver corner, the Porsche ...
Porsche's 959 production car was arguably the most advanced vehicle produced in the 1980s. Before the production 959, though, there was the 959 Paris-Dakar, and now the Porsche Museum is undertaking a ...
Despite there being only a handful of models in the Porsche lineup—past and present—there are many models that over the years have become iconic on the street and on the track. However, some have ...
Now that it has revealed the 2023 911 Dakar, Porsche can turn its attentions to the car that inspired it, the 959 that won the 1986 Paris-Dakar rally. Although the first place car will never be ...
I’ve been reading about cars for much longer than I’ve been writing about them. One formative story was delivered in Car magazine’s September 1987 issue, when editor Gavin Green delivered one of the ...
In an era when the term “supercar” was redefined, the Porsche 959 stood out as a titan of technological innovation and sheer performance. RM Sotheby’s is now set to auction a piece of automotive ...
“We are delighted to be offering this special 959, the second from last built as a ‘Series II’ example,” says Eric Minoff, Bonhams Cars’ head of department for the United States. “A legendary machine ...
The Porsche 959 is one of the most memorable supercars of the 1980s. Only 292 were ever made, and only one was ever converted into a ‘Speedster’ specification. And now that one-off 959 ‘Speedster’ is ...