If You're Stinking Rich, You Should Absolutely Buy This Porsche 959

Let’s make this clear from the off: we don’t have a spare £750,000 floating around to spend on a car (we’ve checked down the back of the sofa and everything). We don’t assume many of you guys do either, but, just in case there’s someone out there reading this who is rather well off, to you we say: go and buy this car. Right now. Why? Because it’s a Porsche 959 and it has just 21,600 miles on the clock.

An homologation special for Porsche’s Group B rally efforts, around 300 959s were built, making them an extraordinarily rare sight on the road. It’s a supercar with four driven wheels from an era when such a thing was a completely alien concept, and it served as a test bed for Porsche’s four-wheel drive technology, which we’re so used to seeing on everything from 911s to Cayennes these days.

Even though this is a car of the late 1980s, it’s still hugely fast today. The rear-mounted 2847cc twin-turbo flat-six puts out 444bhp, enough for a 0-62mph time of just 3.7 seconds, and a top speed of 195mph. The latter figure crowned the 959 as the fastest street-legal production car in 1986, before the Ferrari F40 unceremoniously pinched that record the following year.

So it’s fast, incredibly rare, has historic significance and will most likely only go up in value. £750,000 is starting to seem like a bargain. Sort of.