This Automo Speed Crew video dives into one of Porsche’s most obscure and fascinating machines: the Porsche 968 Turbo S factory prototype. Conceived during Porsche’s financial crisis in the early 1990s, the car was secretly developed as a homologation special for ADAC GT racing and briefly threatened the dominance of the 911. With 305 horsepower from a turbocharged four-cylinder and near-perfect balance, it was faster than almost everything in Porsche’s lineup at the time—except the 911 Turbo 3.6.
Despite an impressive debut, reliability issues and high pricing doomed the project. Porsche planned to build 100 road cars but canceled the program after producing just 14. This particular example is the original factory prototype, later owned for decades by Sven Quandt, son of the man who helped save BMW, underscoring its historical importance.
Finished in unique Speed Yellow and heavily modified with Techart-developed bodywork, this one-off prototype represents a bold, ahead-of-its-time experiment. Though it failed commercially, it remains one of the most important and rare Porsches ever built.
Source: Automo Speed Crew
