time of 3.6 seconds. Car and Driver called that figure 9 tenths of a second quicker than any other car they tested in the entire decade of the 1980s. The car carried Porsche’s PSK all-wheel-drive system, which dynamically shifted torque between the front and rear axles in real time depending on road surface and conditions. Porsche built only 337 examples in total, including prototypes, at a base price of DM431,550, which was still less than half what it cost Porsche to build each one.
The G Gear’s Unplanned Everyday Value
What began as a noise regulation workaround turned out to be genuinely useful in normal driving conditions. Car and Driver noted that the short G gear “works great for stop-and-go California traffic.” The gear’s extremely low ratio made crawling through congested city streets easy and controllable in a car that was not designed for urban commuting at all.
