"We thought we were going to build a super-911," said Peter Schutz, former CEO of Porsche AG of the development of the Porsche 959. That was before it started getting expensive. At that point, Helmuth Bott, Porsche R&D director got frightened. Costs ballooned because of the all-wheel drive, sequential turbocharging and other technology Porsche had never even thought about when it set out to build a 911 to compete in Group B.
Autoblog , eGarage video features Helmuth Bott's personal Porsche 959 prototype, eGarage video features Helmuth Bott's personal Porsche 959 prototype
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