PORSCHE DREAM NO. 962
Porsche is one of the best-known car manufacturers in the world, celebrated both for making excellent and useable supercars, and for persevering with a design featuring an engine in the ‘wrong’ place — hanging over the rear wheels. Not so much an issue when engines were small but it made for interesting drives in 911s once turbo power arrived. This challenge was conquered too, and many Porsche 911s are counted among the best-handling cars on the planet.
It’s not that Porsche didn’t know how to build a mid-engined sports car. One of its most undeniably successful was the Porsche 962, an evolution of the then unbeatable 956. It was designed to compete in the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) series, which had stricter safety regulations than those governing the Group C 956. The 962 took the chequered flag in
