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If road cars were great in the ’80s, the motorsport was simply spectacular, from Group B rally monsters via Group C endurance ...
Porsche’s 911 Turbo–derived 934 and 935 scored wins across the world, and the 936, 956, and 962 endurance cars used blown flat-sixes to amass their own trophy collections.
Porsche also designed an all-wheel-drive electric race car named La Toujours Contente (French for "the one who's always happy"), with one 13.8-hp motor powering each wheel. But the engineer's in ...
Porsche quotes a 3.5-second zero to 60 mph time (also with launch control) that’s quicker than some of its traditional gasoline sports cars, plus an 11.8-second quarter-mile time.
11. Porsche 911 (964) Carrera RS 3.8 But surely the pinnacle for all 964 fans is the outrageous Carrera RS 3.8. Still following the shape of the 901 Porsche unveiled at the Frankfurt show in 1963 ...
By the mid-1970s Porsche had really figured out how to make turbocharged engines work well in racing. The 936 won Le Mans outright in 1976 and 1977 before getting shelved. In 1981 when the company ...
Dacia lists the French-market 2022 Spring Electric 45's acceleration time to 100 km/h (62 mph) at a sedate 19.1 seconds, though the electric-motor torque makes for decent-enough stoplight launches.
The 917K was replaced by the three-time Le Mans-winning 936 after 1971. In 1982, Porsche launched the 956, which helped it rack up four consecutive victories at the famous endurance race.
The Porsche 936 hit Le Sarthe for the first time in 1976 — in the hands of Jacky Ickx Getty Images “The suggestion caused a stir at a meeting called to discuss the new 935 being developed for ...