High And Mighty

Built As A Tribute To The Model’s Racing Success, Porsche’s 935 Remembers Its Breeding At Goodwood.

Model Porsche 935

Engine 3800cc flat-6, dohc, 24v, twin-turbo

Max power 515kW @ 7000rpm

Max torque 750Nm @ 2500rpm

Transmission 7-speed dual-clutch

Weight 1420kg 0-100km/h 2.8sec (claimed)

Economy 11.8L/100km

Price €701,948 (approx A$1.2m)

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WE’VE A LOT of time in the 935, only not so much time to actually drive it in anger. We’re at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, so there are 150,000 sets of eyes watching cars run up the short, tight and surprisingly challenging hillclimb. There’s a lot of hurry up and wait, then, as the 935 is shuffled down towards the start in a gazzillion-dollar traffic jam.

Still, that gives us a lot of time to take in the environment, which, thankfully given I’m in a black race suit, helmet and gloves, retains the road car’s a/c. In front of me there’s a pistol-grip steering wheel, a pair of analogue dials, one being a stopwatch, the other a boost gauge between which resides a digital read screen with the 935’s vitals on it. A cage that would trouble King Kong criss-crosses the interior, while there’s web netting either side of the seat to hold in flailing arms should we get it wrong and hit the sizeable hay bales that line the Goodwood hillclimb. Let’s hope we’ll not be needing those.