The Porsche 959 Is a $1.5 Million Automotive Icon

This is a 1988 Porsche 959 and is one of the best cars made in the 1980s. It is also one of the rarest, most valuable and most special Porsche models of all time in the brand's history. Porsche built only 345 of these worldwide. and today I'm going to review this one thanks to Drive Coffee for making this video happen. They make ultra-premium car-inspired coffees that are roasted to order, meaning they roast it as soon as you order it and it's fantastic coffee. Look at this. even a camel trophy inspired Land Rover, if you're a coffee drinker check out Drive Coffee calm using the link in the description below and use discount code Doug for 15% off your order and now, with that said, back to the 959 I think it's important to start this review with a little history of this incredibly special car, now that the history of the 959 is covered in greater detail elsewhere, but here I'll provide an overview and that Description starts with Group B and now with Group B.

It was a type of rally racing that was popular in the 1980s and the Group B rules said that a competing car manufacturer also had to build road versions of their rally cars. Group B gave us the famous le Quattro, the Ford rs200 at the launch of Oh, three, seven, some famous sports cars of the 80s. In the early 80s, Porsche decided that it also wanted to compete in Group B to create a group B rally car. Porsche needed an all-wheel drive system, as all 911 models at the time were rear-wheel drive. But Porsche didn't just want to make an all-wheel drive 911, they wanted to make an all-wheel drive supercar with tremendously complex technology and a top speed of 200 miles per hour, they succeeded, but when the car finally hit the market.

In 1986 Group B rally racing was over, it was over and then we didn't, as a result Portia decided to race the 959 in some pretty varied racing series including the Paris to Dakar off-road race and the world famous Lamaze street circuit. race in which they competed in a racing version of the 959 called the 961, as road car production began in 1987 and Porsche built 337 examples with two different specifications. The comfort of the 959 could be had, as this car was by far the most common version. from the 959 or you could get the sporty 959, which was more brutal with a few things removed to make it a little lighter and a little faster.

At some point in the early 1990s, Porsche decided to build eight more five-nines with some spare parts they had lying around, bringing total production to 345 units. Now Porsche never originally sold the 959 in the United States due to US government regulations. However, some were imported under the show or exhibition law which allows certain important cars to be imported without complying with US regulations. USA in fact the display or exhibition law was supposedly championed by a group of nine five nine owners who wanted to drive their 959s on American soil, supposedly including Bill Gates anyway, now that this car is 25 years old, it can be imported legally. without having to go through the show or exhibition law when the 959 debuted as a production car, it was the fastest road car in the world with a top speed of 198 miles per hour, this car uses a turbocharged six-cylinder engine with 444 horsepower and 369 lbs.

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, so today I'm going to take you on a tour and show you all the quirks and features of the first one. The modern Porsche supercar, the predecessor to the Carrera GT and the 918 Spyder, I'll take it out on the road and drive it, then give it an excellent score and for more of my thoughts on the 959, click the link below to visit Auto Calm/oversteer trader, where I also compiled a list of the most expensive cars from the 1980s that are currently for sale on auto trader.

Now I'll start with the quirks and features of the 959 right here with the door handle. open the door by pulling this little latch inside the door handle, it makes an incredibly satisfying clicking sound and then once open you can see on the door jamb that there is a black plastic T shaped thing that It comes loose a little when you pull. The engine cover opens in the back, so we pull it and now the engine cover is open and we're going to see what's going on back there. Interestingly, once you've pulled that release, you don't have to do anything else to open it. the engine cover there's no second latch back here you have to open it so once you let go you just come back here you lift it up and then the engine cover is open and there's a couple of hydraulics on either side to keep It opens now when you've opened it so you don't have to deal with a hood support or anything like that.

Now, once you have the engine cover open, you can take a look at the 959's engine. This is truly special. This is not something that many people can see. Personally, I had never seen a 959 with the engine cover open until today, so take a good look now that this car had a couple of interesting things in the engine bay, but one thing worth mentioning is the fact that it now be a twin turbocharged car, this is not that rare nowadays and it wasn't even especially rare when this car came out, but this car has sequential turbos, which means that one turbo comes on at the beginning and then.

Somehow it goes off and a second turbo comes on on many twin turbo cars when this one was produced it had two turbos that came on later in the rev range which meant you didn't get any power or boost and then you're left with no power. Getting back in your seat, the idea of ​​what sequential turbos were gave you a lot more linear power delivered and one interesting thing you'll notice when you look inside the engine department here is that the engine itself just takes up sort of a middle part and then There are these giant pieces painted on the sides that don't seem to have any function, actually underneath them are cooling systems, which is why the engine bay is so big even though the engine now only occupies the central part.

One interesting thing I noticed in the engine compartment here is the fact that there are a couple of different warning labels that say the usual stuff, but there's also one printed on with the firing order that's really cool looking and a label that doesn't. I don't see that in your Toyota Camry for our next interesting article in the engine department. Actually, I want to take you back to the body of the car, where you'll notice several different fins on the body, there's one behind the driver's door, there's one behind the passenger. door and then there is one in the front compartment which is of course the trunk of this car my whole life I have wondered what the hell these things are this car has three fuel tanks what is all this finally today I got my answer: Behind the driver's door there are four hydraulic suspension fluids, you open it with this little yellow lever here on the driver's side, pull it and then it opens up and that's where you stick the hydraulic suspension fluid, more on the suspension in a minute you will be able to notice that there is also a dipstick there so you can check the fluid level on the passenger side.

The little cap is for the motor oil again. It has this little yellow lever in the injury department. You strip it and then open the engine oil cap and add it. Grease the one on the front, which is the fuel tank, but I'll get to that in a minute, for now you'll just have to settle with knowing what it takes. Another thing I find quite interesting on the back of this car is the brake light. Look, this car has a giant taillight that stretches across the entire back of the car, but when you turn on the brake lights, these little things are all that lights up back here, the rest is just a reflector, it's just for show it below if we move. to the wheels now the wheels on time five nine to me are some of the most distinctive wheels ever put on any car.

Show me this wheel. You could instantly identify it as a nine five nine wheel before any other wheel design. And today I learned something pretty interesting about the wheels, as you can see, there are no visible lug nuts, that's because they are center locking wheels, so they just have a giant lock in the center, like racing cars have and many modern sports cars, but it's not a normal center lock, so how do you remove the wheel on a 959? First you remove this little cap over the hub which is pretty standard and then you don't just take a tool and remove the center lock, you insert it.

The ignition key on the wheels to unlock them. I've never seen this before, the owner's manual details it. Once you have turned the ignition key and unlocked the wheel, you take the center locking tool and you can remove the wheel. I suspect that makes this the least stealable wheel out there, as removing it is a three-step process involving three different tools, including the ignition key, but the rather strange wheels aren't the only unusual course Porsche charted with this vehicle, there are quite a few. Unusual elements that Porsche had not done before. I already mentioned all-wheel drive, but there's more, for example some of the body panels are made of Kevlar and fiberglass instead of regular aluminum to save weight, which was quite innovative at the time.

At the time this car also had run-flat tires which was a huge innovation at the time and in fact there is only one very specific type of Bridgestone run-flat tire that can be fitted to these cars even today, 30 years later, this It was also the first production car. have tire pressure monitors, which the owner tells me is a total relief since it's a totally crazy system and when one breaks it costs like 10 thousand dollars per tire pressure monitor to replace it because the parts are very hard to get and then there's the hole now as you can see if you look at this car it looks like a 911 but bloated and the reason for this of course is because they put the all wheel drive system in this car and then They meant that there were more components in the chassis in the undercarriage and things just had to be stretched a little more, obviously also the width was for stability at incredibly high speeds, but by widening the car it also gave Porsche the opportunity to try something new here and put it in the hole.

Until then, the Porsche 911 turbo models had a wider body at the rear, but they did not have a whole. The ninety five nines allow more air to flow into the engine and this was the first time Porsche really tried this with a rear engine vehicle, the next time it appeared was in the 993 911 Turbo S where they did it all again and It's now considered a staple of basically all 911 Turbos. It's one of the few ways you can tell a turbo because it has this. hole in the fender to get more air into the engine and it started with the 959.

The other thing I like is that on the passenger side window you can see there is a little sticker from Blaupunkt to make the radio that says no, You can't steal the radio. This car has a code, this was a theft deterrent back in the day when we stole the radio, you needed a code to operate it, you didn't know the code so the radio would work if you stole it, but I mean, imagine breaking in. to a 959 to steal the radio ah to be a young man in the 1980s in Germany. Next, we go up inside the 959, where there are quite a few interesting items to share.

I'm going to start with the crazy stuff and that means starting with the stick transmission now in your car, if you have a manual transmission, you have gears one, two, three, four, five, six, like a normal guy, that's how all cars are, but not this one, this car has one gear before first, it's labeled G and that means Galland in German, which means like off-road or off-road, this car has off-road equipment, remember I told you it participated in the Paris race - Dakar, although today we think of this only as a crazy supercar that was not its only intention, it was also meant to be. kind of like an off-road supercar and that gear is a crawler gear designed for really low speeds to help you get unstuck if you end up stuck somewhere off-road and you're nine five nine, it's ridiculous now that G gear has a really low gear so so you're only in it for a few miles per hour before shifting into true first position, although many 959 owners will probably start at the beginning as G is a very short gear, now next up is the Paris - Dakar.

Rally Car, you get the G off-road equipment, but ifYou still don't believe me about the off road capabilities of this car, check this out, remember I mentioned hydraulic suspension fluid, well the suspension on this car will raise it, the theory here is Again, if you wanted to go off road in your supercar 959, you would turn this little dial. You can see that it has three different suspension heights and then the car gets up pretty quickly and gets to a surprisingly high position to be able to get out. - Drive on the road and tackle the trails.

Remember that this car was originally built for group B rally racing, so it made sense at the time to have liftable suspensions so it could participate in rallies in its production version. It's considered crazy to this day, but this car. It has off-road crawler gear and adjustable suspension like a Land Rover. Another amazing thing about the 959 was how adjustable the suspension on this car was, beyond just raising and lowering, but also adjustable to different road conditions. Look at this, this little stock is coming. off from the steering column to the right and allows you to change the drive mode.

You can see these little lights in the gauge cluster on the far right gauge and as you move the stock they adjust between four different traction modes, the one at the bottom is a Sun Shine which is for dry traction and the next one is raindrops for wet, then on top you have a snowflake which is ice and then on top you have all wheel drive which locks the car in four wheel drive and make sure there is a 50/50 torque split between the front and rear wheels permanently so you can take your car from the Autobahn to an icy off-road situation if you want, you can't say the same for many other supercars now I was changing the Drive Modes a second ago, you may have Seen these little needles on this gauge switch when I went into four wheel drive mode, they kind of jumped because these needles show the precise power split at any given time, the one on the left shows what percentage of the power of the car goes to the rear wheels and the one on the right shows what percentage of the car's power goes to all four wheels and it happens in real time: it shows you exactly how much power is going to the wheels at any time.

At one point, that's really groundbreaking, but despite all this madness and off-road capabilities, this car also had one more suspension trick that gives you the ability to adjust between hard and soft suspension for when you're on a race track. and you're on the road and you're driving fast, if you want a really hard suspension to take the best corners, you adjust this little dial in the middle with a little damper from plus to minus and you can dial in the exact hardness or softness of the suspension depending on the type of driving I was doing, this car has incredible off-road traction ground clearance capability, but it also has suspension adjustment from a dial inside the car, which was forward thinking for this time period for on-road skills. racetracks, this car is a stunner, but Anyway, next we'll move on to some of the other interesting quirks and interior features of the 959.

I'm going to start with the watch. Now you can see that in the middle there is a standard clock, but there are three buttons. Well, the button on the right changes it. from a clock to a stopwatch and you can use the two buttons on the left to start and stop the stopwatch if you're on a race track, obviously a lot of cars now have this with Chrysler performance pages and all that, but here's a Timing mechanism built into a car, that's cool. Next up I want to talk about some of those cars. Cool warning lights.

The first set is on top of the stereo. You can see the things on the Blaupunkt stereo that you can't steal. Upstairs you have three warning lights. in the middle of the dash you have the ABS light, the LED on the left, not sure what it's for, maybe the brake pads, and then the one on the right is for the handbrake, the other interesting warning item in this car it's directly to the right of those warning lights and that would be that small, it looks like a microphone, well it's actually a doorbell, this car has a speaker like a doorbell and is designed to accompany various warning faults different ones you can get for tire pressure, battery, suspension all sorts of different things and that little speaker is where the chime rings and the owner's manual details how many seconds it rings, how often it rings, depending on what specific fault have your vehicle, other interesting elements on this car are the door lock and you can see the door lock on the door sill, it makes sense, it's pretty standard, but the strange thing is closing and unlocking the door, so You turn this little knob on the door, you can see you turn it and it's closed. and then you turn it and it unlocks and that's a pretty strange way to lock and unlock the door, but that's what they did.

The other unusual locking element on this car is right in the middle between the suspension dials, you have the center locking button. You push it to lock and unlock the doors, central locking wasn't a particularly common feature in the mid-1980s, especially on sports cars like this, so it must have been an interesting element to talk about now locking and unlocking a unusual entry. and come out, we have the inside door handle. If you take a look at the door panel it can be hard to even tell exactly what it is, but it's this little black plastic thing under the door handle, you pull it and then the door opens.

I can bring out other interesting elements, one is the steering wheel, which for me is one of the ugliest steering wheels of all time ever placed on any car in the entire history of history. The steering was also used on the 911 of this era and it's just ridiculously atrocious it's just two horizontal bars and then it says Porsche in the middle now on the 959 it says Porsche 959 in the middle which makes it infinitely cooler but it's still very ugly now to activate the horn in this car you press that half pad on the steering wheel and well that's what the horn sounds like in a Porsche 959 and then we move on to the ashtray and now with a quick look inside you may not be able to locate easily the ashtray, but it is at the bottom. half of the dash right in the middle there is a little cutout you pull it out and then the ashtray opens right next to it this car has a really cool map light if you're sitting in the driver or passenger seat and you want to read a The The map is now not mounted here on the roof above the mirror like it is in many other cars, but rather it is right above your head and you will notice that there is no switch to turn it on or off, instead you simply press the map light and it changes its direction and depending on how it is located, it turns on or off.

It is a very interesting and simple way to make a map light. Now, the next interesting element in this car is the power seats, I say. power seats because they have a lot of different power controls on the side including two separate controls to raise or lower them and heated seats which is pretty advanced the funny thing is they are actually manual seats to move forward and backward there are a little lever on the front and the seat goes forward or backward manually so some power functions some manual functions on this seat more interesting on the seats although it's the way they look this car has silver leather and it says something from 1980, it is more than a vehicle. with silver leather and what I like the most is that it's not just one type of silver leather, you have three different shades of leather, all of which are a different shade of silver.

I'm not talking about gray, they have a shine like aluminum that makes them look. silver and this is the same in the rear, the rear seats also have this multi tone silver leather which is very fun to see in a supercar in the modern era, it would never happen today and yes you heard me right the seats rear seats, the 959, like the 911, has rear seats, so now I'm going to become the only person you've ever seen get into the back seats of a Porsche 959. Oh, the problem is that the front seat doesn't go up as far. enough for any logical person to climb. back here but here I am ah I made it now the back seats are interesting for two reasons: one is the fact that there are bucket seats so deep and crazy that they actually look like those plastic contoured seats you see in a hot tub, They don't extend back here, but for me the most interesting thing about the rear seats is not their tacky appearance, but the fact that you can leave them and use this area as cargo storage if you want, in case the front trunk doesn't have one.

Enough cargo space. The interesting thing that happens if you do that is you have to unclip them to be able to fold them and then if you want to fold them back up to use them as back seats you put them back in place, those snaps are the only thing that holds. the rear seat backs into place, so if you're driving at one hundred and ninety-seven miles per hour, if you're a back seat passenger, take comfort in knowing that your seat back stays in place with a little click, but anyway now it's time to vacate oh the nine five nine thank goodness the next step is to move to the front of the 959 and I want to start with the little flap on the top of the front trunk that I told you about before, now that flap leads to the Fuel Fill first of all, let's talk about opening it so we can open it.

There is a small dial to the left of the steering wheel. You have to pull it very, very hard. There is 959 insider information for you and only then will the fuel door open. now once it opens you put the gas pump in there and you can pump fuel in, but you're probably thinking, wait a minute, the trunk is up here and the fuel cap is in the trunk, so how does that work? Believe it or not, it works the same. This is actually the fuel fill area inside the trunk, although Porsche has gone to great lengths to ensure that fuel doesn't like to spill out and get into the trunk.

You can see that there are a lot of protective materials around it, but that's how it works on this car in the 911, it's always on the fender, on the fuel tank, but on this car, for some reason, they decided to put it inside the trunk . Now, speaking of the trunk, there are quite a few unusual items inside this trunk. Favorite thing is that if you take off this nice, pretty thick carpet, you'll see the biggest warning label of all time in

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history and that would be the one that lets you know that if you put the 959 on a lift, you're not supposed to put it on. . it is too far back because this is a rear engine car and so it has a lot of weight in the rear and therefore it could fall backwards and the front could lift up and it could fall off the lift.

I wonder if that ever happened to anyone. with a 95, I don't expect you guys to have seen this warning label and didn't even think about uploading it that way and then you have the labels down here, which are really cool. First, you have the small label printed on the inside of the front trunk that shows This car's options are now in the front trunk of every Porsche 911 Boxster. CD and these CD options were used and it's cool but I've never seen one for a 959 before and it's cool to see what's on a lot of other cars but here on this million dollar limited production supercar I suspect not many of you have seen that label for a nine five nine.

Also cool is the VIN plate, which is at the base of the front trunk, it has a nice relief. metal instead of just a small plastic VIN plate, it also looks very attractive. Finally, our last interesting element inside the front trunk is under this carpeted panel. Here you pull out these little clips that hold it in place and then you can see underneath is the first aid kit now I always make fun of first aid kits in cars but this is the first aid kit you open this up and there's an incredible amount of bandages, look at this, who needs so many bandages in their car? a surgery on one of these things and here are more bandages, gauze, tape and scissors, this thing is decorated with crazy, it's definitely ridiculous how excessive all this is, if you ever drive your 959 and get into an accident in the that a passenger plane crashed into a school bus then you can use your bandages and help in a massive hype on first aid kit 959 by the way another fun item about the first aid kit if you look at the bottom of the table of contents in the medicine cabinet you will see that there is a space where you can write to the owner of the car and your license plate number is like a small lunch box that you take to first grade and then you write your name because you wantmaking sure no one steals your Porsche 959 first aid kit so you can make sure you put all the bandages on at lunchtime and then get back to the 959.

Our last quirk is the 959 owner's manual, which is really Awesome , it's really great. You could read this cover to cover and find thousands of quirks. Not only is it interesting to look at the owner's manual for a 30-year-old Porsche, but also for a 30-year-old limited production supercar, and everything in here is interesting, but there are several interesting items here, most of which are found at the beginning in a section called Points to keep in mind. The Porsche 959 has been tested to the same rigorous standards as every part and is fully suitable for everyday driving; However, new technologies speak volumes. own language, oh, but aren't they Porsche?

The breathing of the high-performance engine with two-stage turbochargers can be audible. This engine sucks in a lot of air, blah blah blah, and it's nothing to worry about. They were worried that people would complain. hearing the air entering the engine and they put it on page six, that was nothing to worry about. Here's my favorite, although later in the points to note, the Porsche 959 is not as comfortable as a limousine. That's okay, thanks Porsche, because the tires must be suitable. For speeds above 320 kilometers per hour they are like racing tires, however, with a tread pattern, the suspension and damping have to be rigid.

Good point! Anyway, this front section ends with the last words: we wish you safe driving and much pleasure with your Porsche 959 and with that this car went out into the ether now beyond that interesting element to point out on page 60, you are showing the warning lane, there's a little graphic of the radio there, you can see the the radio is tuned to channel ninety-five point nine nine five nine ninety-five point nine who says Germans have no sense of humor another great phrase in the owner's manual nine five nine even the Porsche 959 is subject to the laws of physics that The line is even better as it is the first item in the safety section.

There is no last item worth mentioning. Here in the owner's manual it says that the top speed of this car is 315 km/h, which translates to 196 miles per hour now. I said the top speed was 198 and that's because the sport version of the 959 could go a little faster. The sport version can go a little faster because some elements were removed to save weight, namely the stereo and air conditioning. The big two, the sport models, also had a roll cage, had sport bucket seats, and no passenger mirror, which the owner tells me is a telltale sign. When you look at the outside of the car to instantly know if you're watching a sport or a comfort, since most comfort owners wouldn't remove the passenger mirror to try to make their car look cooler, it's already cold enough, okay? the interesting quirks and features of the 959, now it's time to do one of the most anxious things I've ever done in my entire life.

I'm going to drive this on public roads. Well, driving the 959, this kind of The point of life here the first thing you notice the moment you start driving the club is that the pedals, because they're mounted on the floor, have a very different feel than the most pedals in modern cars, it's quite unusual, the clutch is surprisingly heavy, most Porsches of this era had good results. buttery light clutches, this one is heavier than I expected for sure, the shifter feels like a nine six four nine ninety three, just wonderful, perfectly smooth, exactly how you would expect it to feel great now, surprisingly, there is not much space.

I have the seat all the way back, my knees are a little bit against the steering wheel, and I'm actually surprised how tight it is in here now. I'm using Gia's first gear and the owner does that too, it's a low gear. It's shorter than our traditional first, but you can use it to drive around town and there's no problem. The car rides surprisingly smooth on the road here, the smoothness of the ride certainly feels as good as modern cars. I did the F40, which was kind of a competitor. to this in the sense that they are both cars from this era that made 200, they were the pinnacle cars in

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growth, the f40 is so different from this one, much more brutal than angry, it's a car you don't want to spend a lot on time in this car.

Believe it or not, I actually think you could do it daily if you were crazy and if you weren't worried about repair costs or something, this part actually looks a lot like a 911 from this era in the 80s, 911 for one. Which looked similar, the whole dashboard setup is pretty similar and in that sense you feel like, of course you know, then you catch a glimpse of the wing in the mirror, you look at the steering wheel and it says nine five nine one. What I do like about the driving position is the fact that you are quite far forward and the windshield is close to you, so the result is that you are right there against the windshield, so there is nothing blocking your view.

You have an incredible view in front of you, you can feel the car, the suspension adjusting for whatever purpose to maximize whatever, which is crazy in a car of this era, the clutch point is really high, so it's taking a little time to get it. I'm used to it, although I'm already getting to that point, it doesn't feel particularly strange, it's just that you have to get used to the fact that the clutch does not activate like in the middle of its travel, but at the moment when it tells me that not many people He knows what it is when you drive down the street, he says a lot of people just think it's an old Porsche and he even says it's the kind of Porsche people that don't even look at it twice, which is absolutely It's funny, most People don't really know that this car is one of the all-time

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It's kind of fun to drive, you're in an F40 and everyone goes crazy, but you're in this, it's even weirder. by a factor of three that's like this part here Wow laughs, you can probably hear wow, it moves the hats, it's pretty fast, interesting thing, it doesn't feel like it's moving much until you get to about 4,000 rpm, out of one to three thousand. It's almost like they designed it specifically so you can drive it and feel normal if that's what you want to do, the steering feel is clearly very communal. I'm not joking or anything, but you know that the 911s of this era were great in this car - there is a minimal amount of play in the steering wheel in just a dead stop, the car feels like it has a little more body roll than the modern exotic cars you know. just bad that's unbelievable I can't believe it honestly sir I didn't expect to be that fast and you know you're kind of lulled into a false sense of security because if you live in older 911's you're like oh I'm just in a 911 older and then you rev ​​it and go up to high revs and say, “That was the Porsche 959,” this car is an absolute

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The most important Porsche models of all time and I am very glad to have had the opportunity to show them to you. I'm also very glad I had the opportunity to see it and drive it because these cars are very rare and rarely driven. I suspect it will be years before I see another one of these, but anyway now is the time to give this car an excellent score, starting with the weekend and styling categories. I have to admit, I never found the 959 to be beautiful. It looks dated and looks like a weird bloated 911, it's still cool but it's not beautiful and gets a 6 out of 10.

The acceleration is incredible. 0 to 60 in 3.8 seconds, which was crazy at the time and is still impressive and gets an 8. Handling out of 10 is strong, although it's a little soft in the corners and gets a fun factor of 7 out of 10. He is tall. It's a high-performance sports car with a manual transmission, which is always nice, but then you look in the mirror and notice that. rear fender and you remember that you are in a 959 that is worth an 8 out of 10, finally a cool factor and few cars in the world are cooler, it is an easy 10 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 39 out of 50.

The following They are the daily categories and features the 9 v 9 does not have modern technology but it does have incredible technology. I'm not sure how often you'll raise the suspension, but it's still a notable feature, this car was way ahead of its time. in a truly surprising way and gets a 4 out of 10, which is impressive for a car of this era. The comfort is also impressive, it's a nice easy ride and if it had more room in front it would be even more, but it still gets a respectable 5. out of 10 the quality is decent. I'm sure it was the best when it debuted, but time has taken its toll on the 959 and the materials are no longer the best by modern standards.

In addition, the owner tells me that the repairs are very expensive and he gets. A 6 out of 10 for practicality is typical for a four seater two door car with a decent boot and ultimately gets a value of 4 out of 10. These are incredibly expensive but also iconic and values ​​are going up, it gets a 7 out of 10. for a total daily score of 26 out of 50 added up and the score obtained is 65 out of 100 and here is an interesting comparison linking the 997 Turbo, but that is quite a feat considering that 20 years separate these two cars, better yet, check a look at 959 against rivals from the 1980s, it destroys the ferrari f40, although the f40 is much better in the weekend categories, but the f40 is almost incredibly difficult to use with any frequency.

The 959 also outperforms the Testarossa and Countach, but of course it can't take down. the powerful Carrera GT, a nice car, just a little Porsche, another special you