Porsche 959

Car facts: 

• 959 manufactured by Porsche from 1986 to 1993; 
• At first Porsche 959 was manufacturing as rally car and in 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally finished in 1^st place; 
• When Porsche 959 was introduced at that year it was world’s fastest street-legal production car; 
• top speed of 317 km/h (197 mph), with some variants even capable of achieving 339 km/h (211 mph); 
• In 2004, Sports Car International named the 959 number one on its list of Top Sports Cars of the 1980s; 
• The Porsche 959 S was a 959 “Sport” with larger turbochargers that increased power output to 515 PS (379 kW; 508 hp) only twenty-nine cars were built; 
• The Porsche 959 was not street legal in the United States prior to 1999;