Meet the dead Porsche LMP2000 Le Mans contender that led to the Carrera GT, and the fascinating backstory behind it all.

Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Allan McNish has returned to the cockpit of the unraced Porsche LMP2000 25 years after he took part in the car’s solitary test. McNish, who retired from racing ...

For 25 years Porsche has kept its LMP2000 in the deep dark caverns of its private museum collection, rarely showing the car to anyone outside the company's payroll. In recent weeks, for the ...

The car—referred to internally as 9R3, colloquially known as “LMP2000″—was indeed completed, yet it never saw the green flag. This week, it ran in anger for the first time in a while ...

Porsche's V-10 in the Carrera GT was originally built for a race car Just one example of the race car, known as the LMP2000, was built Video footage of the LMP2000 and its loud V-10 has been ...

The last was the 911 GT1 of 1998. Its successor, the LMP2000, was canceled before it ever raced. Originally, that car, codenamed 9R3, was to get a flat-six, but its designer Weit Huidekoper said ...