In 1986, it captivated the appellation as the world's fastest street-legal assembly car. During its assembly run, it was hailed as the best technologically avant-garde road-going sports car anytime congenital and the advertiser of all approaching cool cars. It was one of the aboriginal high-performance cartage to use an all-wheel drive system, accouterment the base for Porsche's aboriginal all-wheel drive Carrera 4 model. In fact, it assertive Porsche admiral of the system's activity so able-bodied that they chose to accomplish all-wheel drive accepted on all versions of the 911 Turbo starting with the 993 variant. In 2004, Sports Car International called the 959 cardinal one on its account of Top Sports Cars of the 1980s.