Porsche engineered a flat-8-powered supercar, then killed it

It wasn’t that long ago that Porsche was seriously considering a supercar to fill the (wide) gap between its top 911 and the former 918 Spyder hypercar. Rumors of a flat-8 engine and the 960 name (potentially designating the car as a successor to the 959) even surfaced. It turns out those rumors were credible as a Porsche executive recently…