The genesis of the road-going 959 can be traced back to 1981, when Helmuth Bott, Porsche's chief engineer at the time, suggested that a new all-wheel-drive 911 be developed to participate in the ...

Not many non-Ferrari cars have ever been tested on Ferrari’s private test track, but the Porsche 959 was one of them.

In 1988, Autocar brought a Porsche 959 to Ferrari's Fiorano test track to pit it against the venerated Ferrari F40, with a ...

The days of raw, unassisted driving were beginning to fade, and the rise of computer-controlled cars began to take its place. Some manufacturers were quick to adopt the new, computer-dominated tech, ...

The Danish outfit, who’ve previously given us an electric 964-generation Porsche ... iconic 959, but it’s also been radically overhauled under the skin. And what better place to test these ...

The continual refinement and honing of the 911 theme was, in part, thanks to the technological advances Porsche made with the 959, and in particular its use of all-wheel drive that’s become such ...