Porsche 959

Porsche 959

The Porsche 959 was considered the most technologically advanced car of its time. It had only 1 street legal rival at the time. This was the Ferrari F40. However, the Porsche 959 was heralded as the top of the line performance car.
About 2 hundred of these high performance two door coupe cars were produced and Americans were leery of purchasing these new power houses as they did not meet many of the standards required by about half of the United States.
Porsche 959
Porsche 959 was the first all wheel drive model that was introduced. It improved performance to the extent that the designers have opted for all wheel drive on most Porsches since. Porsche 959 was developed as the one design that could be revisited over time and improved upon.


  
Porsche 959  has cooled rear mounted 2,85 litre turbo flat 6 with water cooled heads produced 450 hp at 6.500 rpm. With twenty four valves, four valves per cylinder and the standard 6 speed manual transmission puts the driver in touch with the sequential twin turbo chargers catapulted Porsche 959 well ahead of her time and gave drivers the feel of a high class racing car that was just barely street legal.
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This delivered what was considered a seamless delivery of power and a smooth transition throughout gear changes and powering up.
Porsche 959
There was a big debate about the speculation that this powerhouse could reach as high as a turbocharged 6 hundred horses if properly tuned. The thing that was not debated is that Porsche 959 ripped from 0-60 in a flat 3,6 sec and topped out at almost 2 hundred miles per hour.



Porsche 959 naturally came standard with rack and pinion steering and four wheel vented disk brakes with ABS. Engineers continued to find every ounce of ingenuity to excel the Porsche 959 beyond even the highest public expectations. The development of the magnesium alloy wheels were no exception.
They were created hollow inside and formed a sealed chamber which remained a single unit with the tire. 
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The internal tire pressure monitoring system gave the driver continuous tire pressure readings.
Even with the advanced technology of today Porsche still takes many of its base design features from the ingenuity and ingenious that was introduced with the development of the 959. There has yet to be and probably will never be a car that bursts onto the scene with so many advancements that are so far ahead of its time...