Not all supercars and hypercars go on to become icons. A bunch of them end up fading away or going back into the shadows for a variety of different reasons. Some of these cars had a brief time in the spotlight or had a great introduction while others were in the shadows from the start. In the new 5 part Supercars From The Void series, it’s time to put the spotlight on some of these cars once again.
Let’s start with the Dauer 962 LM (Le Mans). The Dauer 962 LM was basically a road legal racing car that was based on the Porsche 962 and won in the 24 Hours Of Le Mans back in 1994. Back then it was a must for any race car to have a minimum number of road legal examples produced and in this case of Dauer they built 13 examples.
Of these 13 cars, 5 of them were acquired by the Brunei Royal Family, known for collecting a huge number of exotics back in the 1990s and 2000s. Like with most BRF cars, once the 5 Dauer 962s were acquired they pretty much went into the shadows with only a handful of pictures of them in existence.
Being one of the extreme Group C era cars, the Dauer 962 was powerful and insane. A 720 horsepower turbocharged flat-six engine and a top speed of 404 kmph made it one of the fastest road legal cars at the time. Despite this, the Dauer 962 is a car that is pretty much under the radar and it looks like there have not been any recent showcases of this car anywhere and since nearly half the examples are in Brunei, it unfortunately looks unlikely that this extreme Group C racer is going to get a chance at the spotlight anytime soon.
Even though today the Dauer 962 LM may not really be remembered, it’s one of those racing cars that made a certain impact when it had arrived just because of how insane it was.
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