The following information pertaining to both the Porsche 959 and the Ferrari F40 was taken from historical press materials and eyewitness accounts. Since the dawn of automotive design, Porsche and ...

From the CAR archives► We drive 959 and F40► Published July 1988 In the week when Lewis Hamilton arrived at Maranello to join the Scuderia, he set tongues wagging when he posed alongside a Ferrari F40 ...

Could the F40, for all its power ... It is a much more exciting, gratifying car to look at, and observe, than the Porsche 959. Ferrari plans to build just under 100 F40s (the original idea ...

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 ...

Officially the F40 was built to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary, but in reality it was an Italian two-fingered salute to the Porsche 959. While the 288 was a hugely desirable machine ...

The Porsche 959 was years ahead of its time and ushered in technologies that set the tone for almost all future supercars.