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1939 Porsche Typ 64 Coupe

Porsche designed and assembled three of these for a proposed open-road race from Berlin to Rome in October 1939. That race never happened and after World War II, Austrian Otto Mathé acquired this car, the third one, and raced it in the early 1950s.

964 Typ 901 Prototype Porsche

964 Typ 901 Prototype Porsche has always described its raw car body, before anything is mounted on or attached to it, as the “body-in-white,” for obvious reasons. Here, mechanics reckon with how the series car will be assembled.

1981 Typ 936-81 at Le Mans

Once they reached Le Mans, it only took Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell (No. 11) to add another overall victory to their logbooks and the 936 record. They completed 354 laps, finishing fourteen laps ahead of second place. They drove 2,998.3 miles (4,825.3 km), at an average speed of 124.9 miles per hour (201.1 kilometers per hour). Sister 936, No. 12, suffered clutch problems and finished 12th. The Joest Racing 908/80, No. 14, retired after an accident on its 60th lap.

2020 Taycan Turbo S

Is this style of driving hard to resist or hard to avoid? The all-electric Taycan Turbo S boasted as much as 750 horsepower on “Overboost control with Launch Control.” But it’s torque that spins those wheels, the Taycan had enough of that as well: 774 pound-feet with Launch Control. That brought 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour), in 2.6 seconds on dry pavement.