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Porsche 959, the Glossary

The Porsche 959 is a sports car manufactured by German automobile manufacturer Porsche from 1986 to 1993, first as a Group B rally car and later as a road legal production car designed to satisfy FIA homologation regulations requiring at least 200 units be produced.^[1]

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Cars discontinued in 1993
Cars introduced in 1986
Dakar Rally winning cars
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Porsche vehicles

Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics (ἀήρ aero (air) + δυναμική (dynamics)) is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing.

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All-wheel drive

An all-wheel drive vehicle (AWD vehicle) is one with a powertrain capable of providing power to all its wheels, whether full-time or on-demand.

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Aramid

Aramid fibers, short for aromatic polyamide, are a class of heat-resistant and strong synthetic fibers.

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Audi Quattro

The Audi Quattro is a road and rally car, produced by the German automobile manufacturer Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group. Porsche 959 and Audi Quattro are coupés, Group B cars, rally cars and sports cars.

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Auto Motor und Sport

Auto Motor und Sport, (stylized in all lowercase) and abbreviated AMS or AMuS, is a German automobile magazine.

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Autoweek

Autoweek is a car culture publication and magazine based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.

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Bosch (company)

Robert Bosch GmbH, commonly known as Bosch (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Bruce Canepa

Bruce Canepa is a retired American race car driver and car dealer.

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Car and Driver

Car and Driver (CD or C/D) is an American automotive enthusiast magazine first published in 1955.

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Claude Ballot-Léna

Claude Roger Léon Ballot-Léna (4 August 1936 – 5 December 1999) was a French racing driver born in Paris.

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Concept car

A concept car (also known as a concept vehicle, show vehicle or prototype) is a car made to showcase new styling or new technology.

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Coupe

A coupe or coupé is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors. Porsche 959 and coupe are coupés.

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Development mule

A development mule, also known as test mule or simply mule, in the automotive industry is a testbed vehicle equipped with prototype components requiring evaluation.

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Evo (magazine)

Evo is a British automobile magazine dedicated to performance cars, from hot hatches to supercars.

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Exhaust system

An exhaust system is used to guide reaction exhaust gases away from a controlled combustion inside an engine or stove.

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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; International Automobile Federation) is an association established on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users.

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Flat-six engine

A flat-six engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-six, is a six-cylinder piston engine with three cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft.

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Four-wheel drive

A four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, is a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.

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Gizmodo Media Group was an online media company and blog network formerly operated by Univision Communications (now TelevisaUnivision) in its Fusion Media Group division.

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Group B

Group B was a set of regulations for grand touring (GT) vehicles used in sports car racing and rallying introduced in 1982 by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Porsche 959 and Group B are Group B cars and rally cars.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Homologation

Homologation (Greek homologeo, ὁμολογέω, "to agree") is the granting of approval by an official authority.

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Jacky Ickx

Jacques Bernard Edmon Martin Henri "Jacky" Ickx (born 1 January 1945) is a Belgian former racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times (second-highest of all time) and achieved eight wins and 25 podium finishes in Formula One.

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Karosserie Baur

Baur is a Karosserie or coachbuilder in Stuttgart, Germany, which has been building BMW convertibles since the 1930s.

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Kees Nierop

Kees Nierop (born 16 March 1958 in Purmerend, the Netherlands) is a former professional Dutch racing driver.

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Kevlar

Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Manual transmission

A manual transmission (MT), also known as manual gearbox, standard transmission (in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States), or stick shift (in the United States), is a multi-speed motor vehicle transmission system, where gear changes require the driver to manually select the gears by operating a gear stick and clutch (which is usually a foot pedal for cars or a hand lever for motorcycles).

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Nardò Ring

The Nardò Ring, originally known as Pista di prova di Nardò della Fiat (Fiat's Nardò test track) when it was built in 1975, is a high speed test track located at more than north-west of the town of Nardò, Italy, in the southern region of Apulia, in the Province of Lecce.

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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an agency of the U.S. federal government, part of the Department of Transportation, focused on transportation safety in the United States.

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Nomex

Nomex is a flame-resistant meta-aramid material developed in the early 1960s by DuPont and first marketed in 1967.

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Paul Frère

Paul Frère (30 January 1917 – 23 February 2008) was a racing driver and journalist from Belgium.

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Peter Schutz

Peter Werner Schutz (April 20, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was the president and CEO of Porsche between 1981 and 1987, a time in which the company greatly expanded sales, primarily in the United States.

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Porsche 911

The Porsche 911 (pronounced Nine Eleven or in Neunelf) is a two-door 2+2 high performance rear-engined sports car introduced in September 1964 by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. Porsche 959 and Porsche 911 are cars powered by boxer engines, coupés, Group B cars, Porsche vehicles, rally cars, rear-engined vehicles and sports cars.

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Porsche 911 (964)

The Porsche 964 is a model of the Porsche 911 sports car manufactured and sold between 1989 and 1994. Porsche 959 and Porsche 911 (964) are cars discontinued in 1993, cars powered by boxer engines, Porsche vehicles, rear-engined vehicles and sports cars.

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Porsche 911 (993)

The Porsche 993 is the fourth generation of the Porsche 911 model sports car manufactured and sold between January 1994 and early 1998 (model years 1995–1998 in the United States), replacing the 964. Porsche 959 and Porsche 911 (993) are cars powered by boxer engines, coupés, Porsche vehicles, rear-engined vehicles and sports cars.

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Porsche 953

The Porsche 953 was a heavily modified variant of the 911, designed and built specifically to compete in the 1984 Paris–Dakar Rally. Porsche 959 and Porsche 953 are cars powered by boxer engines.

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Porsche 956

The Porsche 956 was a Group C sports-prototype racing car designed by Norbert Singer and built by Porsche in 1982 for the FIA World Sportscar Championship. Porsche 959 and Porsche 956 are cars powered by boxer engines.

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Porsche 961

The Porsche 961 was a racing car built by Porsche and based on their 959 sports car.

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Porsche 962

The Porsche 962 is a sports prototype racing car designed and built by Porsche. Porsche 959 and Porsche 962 are cars powered by boxer engines.

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Porsche flat-six engine

The Porsche flat-six engine series is a line of mechanically similar, naturally aspirated and sometimes turbocharged, flat-six boxer engines, produced by Porsche for almost 60 consecutive years, since 1963.

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Porsche Museum

The Porsche Museum is an automobile museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart, Germany on the site of carmaker Porsche.

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Production car speed record

This is a list of the world's record-breaking top speeds achieved by street-legal production cars (as opposed to concept cars or modified cars). Porsche 959 and production car speed record are sports cars.

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Production vehicle

Production vehicles or production cars are mass-produced models of automobiles offered for sale to the public, and able to be legally driven on public roads.

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Pugad Baboy

Pugad Baboy (literally, "swine's nest" in Tagalog) is a comic strip created by Filipino cartoonist Apolonio "Pol" Medina, Jr. The strip is about a Manila community of mostly obese people – "fat as pigs" (baboy is Tagalog for pig).

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Rallye des Pharaons

The Rallye des Pharaons (French for "Pharaohs Rally") was a rally-raid event that took place in Egypt between 1982 and 2015.

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Rallying

Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed.

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Rear-engine design

In automobile design, a rear-engine design layout places the engine at the rear of the vehicle. Porsche 959 and rear-engine design are rear-engined vehicles.

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René Metge

René Jean Metge (23 October 1941 – 3 January 2024) was a French professional rally driver.

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Road & Track

Road & Track (stylized as R&T) is an American automotive enthusiast magazine first published 1947.

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S-segment

S-segment cars are a European car segment class for sports coupés. The equivalent Euro NCAP class is called "roadster sport".

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Show or Display

The "Show or Display" rule is a statutory amendment to the United States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) that allows certain privately imported automobiles to be exempted, if the vehicle in question is deemed to meet a standard of "historical or technological significance".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959

Also known as Porsche 959 Prototype.

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Porsche 959, the Glossary

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See also

Cars discontinued in 1993

Cars introduced in 1986

Dakar Rally winning cars

Group B cars

Porsche vehicles

References