Porsche, which reportedly lost money on ... the latter clearly learned something in their dissection of the 959. Nissan's R32 GT-R showed up with ATTESA ET-S apportioning twin-turbocharged ...

So when Nissan purchased a Porsche 959 in the late 1980s to help develop the all-wheel drive system for the legendary R32 Skyline GT-R, Porsche should have been flattered. It wasn't—Porsche ...

there was another Porsche supercar quietly and discretely on display upstairs in the same hall. That, of course, was the 959. But not just any 959: this was the original Gruppe B prototype.

But perhaps one of the brightest stars of the era was the glorious Porsche 959. It did have a brief competition history with a prototype winning the 1984 Paris-Dakar, while it also won the ...