Porsche 911: 50 Years

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In Porsche 911: 50 Years, bestselling writer Randy Leffingwell celebrates a half-century of some of the world’s premiere sports cars, that specialize in the major themes that have defined Porsche’s rear-engined wonder. Randy tells the whole story–design and development, racing and competition, engineering and technology, style and culture. The entire iconic 911 models are included: the original 901 prototype that set the usual; the legendary RS models that made the little Porsche a dominant force at the world’s racetracks; the infamous Turbo, the car that kept the performance flame alight all the way through the dark, dismal decade of the 1970s; the fabled 959, the model that redefined the term “sports car”; the 993, last of the original air-cooled models; and the 996, 997, and 991, the liquid-cooled cars that brought the 911 into a new millennium. Beyond telling the story of the cars, Porsche 911: 50 years also spotlights the people in the back of them: Ferdinand “Butzi” Porsche, the son of legendary Porsche founder Ferdinand “Ferry” Porsche, who co-designed the straight away recognizable 911 shape; Peter W. Schutz, the Porsche CEO who saved the 911 from extinction; and Dr. Helmuth Bott, the engineering genius in the back of the various groundbreaking technologies that have defined the 911, including fuel injection, turbocharging, and all-wheel-drive. Leffingwell also tells the story of the 911 community–the clubs and culture that surround the car. Together, all of these facets make Porsche 911: 50 Years the most essential book in any Porsche owner or fan’s library.


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