On Wednesday, Motor Trend released a series of teaser images, leading readers and followers to believe it had uncovered the mythical Apple Car. It had not. People are pretty pissed about the bait-and-switch, and rightfully so. But moral outrage isn’t a good color on us. So, instead of focusing on the debacle, we’ll just use it as an excuse to look back at the real Apple Car, which topped out at 215 mph.

That's because it was a racecar. And not just any racecar, either—a Porsche 935 K3, basically 2,200 pounds of twin-turbocharged funk nasty on wheels. To give you an idea just how fast this car is, consider the following: When Road & Track tested a standard 935 in 1977, it ripped off the quarter-mile in 8.9 seconds. That standard car made 590 horsepower. The K3 car, prepared by the Kremer Brothers, made 750 hp, except during qualifying, when it made 800 hp. It also won a lot of races during the late Seventies.

Steve Jobs appreciated that. He was big into German design, a great admirer of Henckles knives and Braun appliances. He parked a BMW motorcycle in the Macintosh lobby in Cupertino as an aesthetic aspiration; at one point, during the Eighties, Jobs even tried Porsche Design to makeover Apple’s computers.