4. Porsche 959
The Porsche 959 is one of the fastest and also most advanced and technologically complex supercars of the ’80s. The 959 was a super Porsche in every way, not only by design but also by performance and price. It was the perfect blend of experience from racing with the latest technology along with turbocharging, all in one car: the 959. Introduced in 1987, the 959 had a 3.0-liter turbocharged flat-six engine with 450 HP.
All that power went to the wheels over an intelligent AWD system, the first of its kind for Porsche. The car was also equipped with traction control, ABS and a host of electronic systems that helped the driver. Even though all this is standard in most new cars today, it was space-age technology in the late ’80s. The performance of this technological tour de force was also astonishing since a 0 to 60 mph sprint was possible in just 3.7 seconds.