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Recent Posts from: Porsche 959

Porsche restored a gorgeous 959 S for retired F1 ace Nick Heidfeld

7/11/20228:00 estFiled to: Porsche 959By: Bradley Brownell

Porsche's 959 is an icon of the brand's history. For many enthusiasts, this is the car that made Porsche a serious contender in the world of supercars. Forget the competition victories, the Le Mans domination of the era, or the decades of on-track prowess. No, Porsche wasn't truly a Ferrari-like take-on-the-world sports car manufacturer until the …

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Someone Buy This Ex-Dakar Porsche 959 So I Don’t Have To

7/22/202010:54 estFiled to: Porsche 959, Porsche MotorsportsBy: Bradley Brownell

Legendary driver Jacky Ickx drove this impressive machine in the 1985 running of the famed Paris-Dakar rally. Sadly, in the middle of the 8th stage, Ickx impaled the car on a large rock hidden in the sand, forcing this chassis to retire from the race. From that race until 2014 the car was retained by the Porsche museum when it was sold off to a …

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Why Have Rear-Engined Designs Survived with Porsche?

2/11/202012:09 estFiled to: Porsche 959, VideosBy: Chris Cushing

Being rear-engined does have some drawbacks. Even a 356, which carries far less weight aft of its rear axle, can have a penchant for bringing the tail around under certain conditions. As an avowed lover of the 356, you can only imagine the amount of jealousy I am feeling that Jalopnik's Jason Torchinsky even had the chance to spin an America …

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Witness One of the Rarest Porsche Racers Grazing Goodwood’s Haybails

6/29/201911:50 estFiled to: Porsche 959By: Tommy Parry

It's a bit strange to think that twenty-five years ago, Porsche planned to take the 959 into international sports car racing. Especially for its time, the tech-heavy 959 was so sophisticated that running one in an endurance race must've made the engineers weep and kiss their family lives goodbye. However, it was indeed built to fit into the Group B …

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Jay Leno Takes Porsche’s 80s Icon 959 For A Spin

5/28/201912:12 estFiled to: Porsche 959By: Bradley Brownell

The 959 was really Porsche's rolling laboratory for automotive technological advancement. The truly astonishing thing about the 959 is that it was truly the first daily-driver supercar. Sadly, most of these cars have not been blessed with driving mileage, as they've been shoved in collections and garages for years. This car has 49,000 brag-worthy …

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Everything You Need To Know About Porsche’s Iconic 1980s Supercar

3/19/20199:55 estFiled to: Porsche 959, VideosBy: Chris Cushing

https://youtu.be/97HeaXDIj0s I will spare you the shouting, as James Pumphrey has almost 14 minutes of excitement coming your way. This video isn't solely about quirks and features, nor is it about turning the 959 to 11. James, like many of us, has never seen a 959 in real life before, and he is taking this one in as Porsche intended. As the …

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Porsche’s Iconic 959 Supercar Gets A Doug Score

12/20/20188:23 estFiled to: Porsche 959By: Tommy Parry

Doug DeMuro's obsession with automotive minutiae might not work with every one of his reviews, or for all of his 2.3 million subscribers. However, if there's one car that deserves to be inspected with the thickest possible magnifying glass around, it's the Porsche 959. This techno-titan established itself as one the greatest sports cars to emerge …

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Canepa Is Rebuilding 959s With Almost 800 Horsepower, And No You Didn’t Read That Wrong

4/29/201811:45 estFiled to: Porsche 959By: Bradley Brownell

As I rounded a corner at Luft5 this Sunday to see a gorgeous deep blue 959 sitting there with gunmetal grey wheels and an interior the shade of Marilyn Monroe's lipstick, I felt like the bottom had fallen out of my brain. I had known it would be there, and I even knew what color the Porsche would be beforehand, but the visual I'd crafted in my head …

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No Shoes Allowed: How I Got To Ride Along In A 959 At Sonoma Raceway

4/12/201811:50 estFiled to: Porsche 959By: Bradley Brownell

I had to take my shoes off in order to get inside the 959

This weekend during 'HooptieCon' at Sonoma Raceway, I was given the opportunity to sit in the passenger seat of a gorgeous 4,700 mile Porsche 959 as it circulated a paced parade lap. You wouldn't normally expect to see Porsche's pinnacle of 1980s engineering excellence participate in an event called HooptieCon, but this is a truly special event. …

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Bruce Canepa And The Story Of The 959 In America

2/1/201810:03 estFiled to: Porsche 959By: Bradley Brownell

If you're a vintage Porsche enthusiast with more than a passing interest in the incredible 1980's Porsche 959 supercar, you've likely heard the term 'show and display' thrown about. It was a legal recourse for collectors to import a 959 without going through the lengthy, costly, and difficult Federalization process to make the 959 street legal in …

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