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The first 911s to roll off the line were heinously unstable. The solution: Slap some clunky metal weights to the nose.

CompleteCar.ie feature: The 911 saved Porsche in the eighties. This one kick-started Dublin’s redevelopment in the same decade.

Today, when we talk about the first modern supercar, the model that springs to mind is the Ferrari F40. However, most of us seem to forget that a year earlier Porsche introduced the epic 959, a vehicle that could not only go head-to-head with the fabled prancing horse in terms of performance but was also way ahead of it when it came to technical innovations.

The Nurburgring gets all the attention, and perhaps rightly so. These days it seems like just about every c...

Video premiere: The latest "Inside the 59" video from Jacksonvilles Brumos Collection museum at 5159 San Pablo Road S., showcases a very rare street car – the all-wheel-drive 1985 Porsche 959 pre-prototype once owned by Helmuth Bott, the former executive vice president for research and development at Porsche AG. The Brumos Collection and its display of Brumos Racing cars and other classics reopened Jan. 21 after a COVID-19 shutdown. For more information, go to bit.ly/3784YnA.  Car shows Ped...

This Porsche 959 was a gift from Dr. Wolfgang Porsche to the project's chief engineer.