Only 292 examples were made, and they do not come up for sale often. That makes this 1987 Porsche 959, up for sale on Bring a Trailer (which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos ...
the Porsche 959 was the fastest road car on sale. Most V12 supercars of the time would top out at around the 175 mph mark, whereas the 959 carried on until it was just three mph shy of the ...
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.
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 ...