Porsche 959
The Porsche 959 is one of the fastest and most advanced supercars of the ’80s. The 959 was a superior Porsche in every way, not only by design but by performance and price. Since Porsche has always been so famous in America, you might think every model will be homologated for the US market, but the 959 was an exception to the rule. The car was so advanced and expensive to build that the factory decided not to market it in the USA. This was because the process of obtaining the permit by NHTSA was too much even for Porsche (via Porsche).
Introduced in 1987, the 959 had a 3.0-liter turbocharged flat-six engine with 450 hp, which sent to all four wheels over an intelligent AWD system, the first of its kind. The car had traction control, ABS, and a host of electronic systems, which helped the driver. Despite all this being 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. The 0 to 60 mph sprint was possible in just 3.7 seconds.