The Porsche 959 is known as a road-going technological tour de force from the 1980s. It featured four-wheel drive, twin turbochargers, and a top speed nearing 200 miles per hour. And then in 1986, in won the Paris-Dakar Rally.
The 959 was initially developed by Porsche to take part in Group B racing, which was a set of standards devised for both track and rally racing. It allowed for huge amounts of horsepower and not very much relatively in terms of safety, so when it became primarily rally-focused and then banned altogether Porsche just kinda went “aw screw it” and just developed … More