Porsche
This is the catalogue record of the Porsche 961, one of 181 models Porsche has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Porsche 961, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.
On paper, the Porsche 961 reads like this: the record lists its engine as gasoline engine; kerb weight is recorded at 1150 kg. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Porsche's own catalogue the Porsche 961 sits alongside the Porsche P1 (1898), the Porsche Type 12 (1950), the Porsche 356, the Porsche 356 C. Design is credited to Drivers = René Metge / Claude Ballot-Léna / Kees Nierop / Günter Steckkönig / Claude Haldi | Test drivers = | Chassis = | Front suspension = Double wishbone | Rear suspension = Dou.
The Porsche 961 also has a competition record: 1 (class) | Poles = 0 | Fastest_laps = 0 | Last_season = 1987 recorded wins from 3 | Cons_champ = | Drivers_champ = | Wins = 1 (class) | Poles = 0 | Fastest_laps = 0 | Last_season = 1987 starts and Drivers_champ = | Wins = 1 (class) | Poles = 0 | Fastest_laps = 0 | Last_season = 1987 championships. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.
The catalogue records what the Porsche 961 was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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