959 gelande gear

[MikeO996]

In this month's evo Henry Catchpole is bemused by the 959s lowest gear (marked G), which he discovers is an off road gear "basically a creeper gear, shorter than first".

I think he's wrong and it is just first gear but I can't remember why Porsche did it. I have a feeling that it was to get around some legal or homologation issue but I'm not going searching through piles of books and mags to find out.

Anyone know?

[MikeO996]

You're brilliant, I'm sure that's what I was thinking of, but I couldn't find it anywhere, and I bet I got it from that article.