The Porsche 962 Schuppan brings a road-legal Group C car to your garage
Kisdton’s Rétromobile stage featured one of six ever-built Schuppan 962CRs. The Schuppan 962CR was a sports car produced between 1992 and 1994 by Australian racecar driver Vern Schuppan, who won at Le Mans in 1983 and the 1983 All Japan Sports Prototype Championship title.
The 962CR is based on the Porsche 962 race car that dominated Le Mans (recall the nobody’s perfect ad?). Hence the Schuppan 962CR retains the mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout of the race car, and is powered by a water-cooled 3.3-litre Type-935 Flat-6 featuring twin KKK turbochargers producing 600 hp (with a kerb weight slightly over 1000kgs). The power goes to the rear wheels through a five-speed manual transmission, and for this spartan car, the owners had to pay over 1.5 million US dollars at that time, with virtually no depreciation.
