Tuesday, September 16, 2003
How Bill Gates spends his spare cash: Fuck it, I'll just quote the slashdot blurb:
Soon there will be a 'new' Porsche 959 racing down highway 520 in Redmond. This article in autoweek describes how Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Ralph Lauren teamed up with Bruce Canepa to make the 959 street legal. Best quote: Gates 'suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to "crash and test."' They modernized and increased the performance of the already super car to: 575HP making the 15 year old cars race to 60 in 3.3 seconds with a top speed of 215MPH."
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The all-wheel-drive, twin sequential turbo 959 was conceived to serve as Porsche�s entry into the FIA�s stillborn Gruppe B rally-racing class
